The Polish author won the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for her “narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”.
Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize lecture “offers an acute analysis of the state of miscommunication in the modern world,” said Andrew Wrobel, founding partner for Emerging Europe, which describes itself as an independent business, research and media platform.
He added: “It was thought that the internet, in providing universal access to all knowledge, would not only bring people happiness, well-being, health and wealth, but would also create an equal and just society.
“Instead, we suffer from isolation, fragmentation, a cacophony of sounds, disinformation, fake news. The world is dying, and we are failing to notice.”
Last year, Tokarczuk joined an elite list of previous Polish Nobel Prize winners which comprises literary heavyweights Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), Władysław Reymont (1924) and Czesław Miłosz (1980).
Tokarczuk’s work has won international praise from critics and has also proved popular with the reading public.
(jh/pk)
Source: emerging-europe.com