Warsaw is a city that wears its history on its sleeve—its streets tell tales of war, survival, resistance, uprising, and rebirth. It’s not surprising—over the...
Tag - Olga Tokarczuk
Each of these books (all available in English) offers a unique perspective on Poland, its history, and its people. Whether you’re interested in war, culture...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
You may not want to look back too carefully at a year many of us will no doubt wish to forget, but we have put together a recap of 2020 in the emerging Europe region...
Just in time for your Christmas shopping, we highlight six Nobel Prize winning authors (and six essential books – one by each author) from emerging Europe. Here’s...
Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature for...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
We started the year with a bang, proclaiming Romania, then led by prime minister Viorica Dancila, unready to take on the presidency of the Council of the European Union...
October has been a good month for emerging Europe’s giants of literature. Following on from Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk being named the winner of the 2018 Nobel...
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk (pictured above) was on October 10 named the winner of the 2018 Nobel prize for literature. Austrian author Peter Handke, who delivered a...
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke have both won the Nobel prize for literature. To a packed room at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on...
An English translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Polish novel Flights, which combines tales about travel with explorations of the human body, was named as the winner of...