By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 10, 2019 5:12:55 pm
Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker Prize 2018: Other novels by the Polish author
Olga Tokarczuk has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Tuesday (May 22) for her novel Flights. The novel, translated by Jennifer Croft, narrates tales of travelling, mobility and movement and makes them a metaphor for life itself.
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction on for her novel Flights. The novel, translated by Jennifer Croft, narrates tales of travelling, mobility and movement and makes them a metaphor for life itself. The novel was originally published in 2008 and Tokarczuk in it plays around with what readers understand as a conventional form of a novel. She throws in several, disparate narratives like tracing the posthumous journey of Polish composer Chopin’s heart to Warsaw from Paris where he had died, or anatomist Philip Verheyen writing letters to his amputated leg and then interlaces them with short bursts of digressions, anecdotes and analysis. Flights is the third book by her that has been translated in English.
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