with Olga Tokarczuk, Novelist, Nobel laureate
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Add to calendarOn books built out of fragments, and how a reader learns to hold a shape that is never stated.
She drew the structure of Flights on a flipchart. Someone photographed it and it has been circulating in writing groups since.
A trained psychologist from Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls the 'constellation novel', books built from fragments the reader assembles. Her work has been fiercely debated at home and celebrated abroad, and her Nobel citation praised an imagination that 'represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life'.
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In conversationUpcomingFlights · Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2007
with Olga Tokarczuk, Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2018
Tokarczuk and her translator argue in public about three fragments, with the audience voting on each one.
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In conversationUpcomingThe Books of Jacob · Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2014
with Olga Tokarczuk, Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2018
What clinical training leaves in a novelist: standing inside someone's reasoning long enough to describe it without mockery.
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