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Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, for her novel Flights. She has received many other honours, including her country Poland's highest literary award, the Nike, for both Flights and The Books of Jacob. Her novels Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and House of Day, House of Night have also been highly praised. She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, a children's book and two collections of essays. Her work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Widely regarded as one of the most important writers of her generation, she lives in the countryside near Nowa Ruda, in south-western Poland. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.
‘As brilliant and life-affirming as literature gets.’ Saturday Paper on Flights ‘An international, mercurial, and always generous book, to be endlessly revisited.’ Los Angeles Review of Books on Flights ‘Just one of those books you need to read.’ Lit Hub on House of Day, House of Night
