Olga Tokarczuk

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Born	January 29, 1962 (age 63) • Poland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2018) • Man Booker International Prize (2018)
Notable Works	“Czuły narrator” • “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” • “Flights” • “Gra na wielu bębenkach” • “House of Day, House of Night” • “Ksiegi Jakobowe” • “Opowiadania bizarne” • “Podróż ludzi księgi” • “Primeval and Other Times”

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish writer

Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Reymont, Władysław Stanisław

Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Polish author

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

Imre Kertész

Hungarian writer

Doris Lessing

British writer

Herta Müller, 2009.

Herta Müller

Romanian-born German writer

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Canadian author

Maria Dąbrowska

Polish author and critic

Ferdynand Goetel

Polish author

Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

French author

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American author