I still have dreams about the building where my classes were – its broad hallways that looked like they’d been carved into stone, smoothed down by people’s feet the worn edges of the stairs the handrails polished by people’s hands, traces imprinted in space. Ultimately it was a place that, despite reconstruction, still belonged to the dead. I never felt comfortable there between the new communist buildings and the wretched squares there was always a wind, and the frosty air was particularly bitter, stinging you in the face. That part of the city had been built up on the ruins of the ghetto, which you could tell if you took a good look – that whole neighbourhood stood about three feet higher than the rest of the town. My department was located in a building that had been the headquarters of an S.S. I studied psychology in a big, gloomy communist city. This event is co-presented by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, Open Letters Books, and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
The discussion will be followed by followed by a reception and a book signing. Sean Bye, Polish Cultural Institute New York, and Jakub Czernik, Jagiellonian University, Poland In May, Tokarczuk and Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for Flights, making it the first Polish novel to win the world’s leading prize for books in English-language translation. It is made up of 116 vignettes - both fiction and nonfiction - ranging from a Polish man’s desperate search for his wife and child after they disappear during a vacation in Croatia, to a historical account of Chopin’s heart being smuggled into Warsaw beneath his sister’s skirt. The London Magazine pegged the book as “a brilliant, experimental tour de force” and praised its “liquid, mellifluous prose.” Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich called Tokarczuk “a magnificent writer.” Exquisitely translated by the award-winning novelist Jennifer Croft, Flights delves into the mystery and wonder intrinsic to the human experience. It has taken critics, booksellers, and readers alike by storm. " A household name in Poland and one of Europe's major humanist writers" - The Guardianįirst published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK last spring in translation by Jennifer Croft, Olga Tokarczuk’s intoxicating novel Flights ( Bieguni) is now out in the United States from Riverhead.
" One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century." - The Economist She is the author of eight novels and two short story collections, and has been translated into a dozen languages.
Her first book, a collection of poems, was published in 1989. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw, and her interest in Jung continues to influence her work. Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's most celebrated and beloved authors, a winner of the Man Booker International Prize, as well as her country's highest literary honor, the Nike.
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