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  1. E.E. is a 1995 psychological novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. [1] Set in Wrocław at the turn of the 20th century, it tells the story of a teenaged Erna Eltzer, who suddenly gains paranormal skills and is used as a medium. The novel draws from Carl Jung's doctoral dissertation On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena.

  2. Olga Tokarczuk is drawn to transformative moments in the history of human understanding.1 Her second novel, E. E., captures such a moment in the history of psychology in the early twentieth century. Out of debates, battles of ideas, and turf wars emerged the unconscious, dissociation, transference, traumatic memory, and repression—concepts we now take for granted.

  3. Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk[1] ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, [2] and public intellectual. [3] She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination ...

  4. Jan 31, 2022 · Rhian Sasseen. and. Jennifer Croft. Olga Tokarczuk approaches fiction in a way uniquely suited to the fragmentation of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, collapsing boundaries among time periods and countries. Born in 1962 in Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls “constellation novels,” blending memoir ...

  5. Olga Tokarczuk. , The Art of Fiction No. 258. Interviewed by Marta Figlerowicz. Issue 243, Spring 2023. In her bookstore in Wałbrzych in the late eighties. Courtesy of Olga Tokarczuk. Olga Tokarczuk is young for a Nobel Prize winner. She received the award four years ago, at fifty-seven, for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic ...

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  7. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018. Born: 29 January 1962, Sulechów, Poland. Residence at the time of the award: Wroclaw, Poland. Prize motivation: “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. Olga Tokarczuk received her Nobel Prize in 2019. Prize share: 1/1.

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