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Book by Poland's Tokarczuk on French ‘must-read’ list

09.12.2020 15:31
“Tales of the Bizarre” by Polish Nobel Prize-winning writer Olga Tokarczuk has been included in a list of the 100 best books of 2020 compiled by the French magazine Lire. 
Olga Tokarczuk.
Olga Tokarczuk. Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyńsk

It is the most prestigious list of “must-read” recommendations for French book lovers.

Two years ago, Tokarczuk’s The Book of Jacob was also included on the list.

Tokarczuk received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018 "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”

Her other major books include Flights, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Primeval and Other Times.

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