"The Books Of Jacob" by Olga Tokarczuk is a colossal work - an epic, a fable, a history, sometimes a satire, always a magnum opus. It tells the story of Jacob Frank, an 18th century religious leader - ...

Assembling a timeline of for Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction requires some diligence. Her “new” book — released in the States last November — is “The Books of Jacob.” But Tokarczuk published the book in her ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and the book-length edition of the “1619 Project” are among the nominees for Kirkus Prizes, $50,000 honors given in three competitive ...

LONDON (AP) — Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk is among six finalists announced Thursday for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation. Tokarczuk’s 18th-century ...

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its ...

Nobel Prize winner Tokarczuk (The Books of Jacob) delivers the disarming tale of a Silesian tuberculosis ward and a series of mysterious deaths in the surrounding countryside. Mieczysław Wojnicz, a ...

Some kind of kismet continues to link Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke. The authors belong to different generations, write in different languages and generate considerably different levels of ...