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SUMMARY:Olga Tokarczuk: Writing Polish Identity - Olga Tokarczuk
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DESCRIPTION:Olga Tokarczuk is perhaps Poland's most decorated and eminent 
 contemporary novelist. Join us for an evening of readings from her work (i
 n English and Polish) and discussion with the author. Olga Tokarczuk will 
 be accompanied by the main translator of her books into English\, Antonia 
 Lloyd-Jones.\n\nOlga Tokarczuk's most recent novel\, The Books of Jacob (K
 sięgi Jakubowe) won Poland's most prestigious literary award\, the Nike P
 rize\, in 2015. The novel is based on the historical story of Jacob Frank\
 , a heretical Jew who converted to Christianity and styled himself as Mess
 iah in the eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eight
 eenth century. In the novel\, Tokarczuk deals with the most difficult ques
 tions of Poland's diverse multiethnic\, multiconfessional and multicultura
 l history.\n\nQuestions of Polish identity have loomed large in all of Tok
 arczuk's works\, and we will discuss them in depth at the event.
LOCATION:William Mong Hall\, Sidney Sussex College\, University of Cambrid
 ge
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