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Ze studeerde klinische psychologie aan de Universiteit van Warschau, behaalde haar diploma in 1985 en werkte enkele jaren als psychotherapeut in Wrocław en Wałbrzych voor ze zich volledig op het schrijven richtte. Sinds 1998 woont ze in het stadje Nowa Ruda, waar ze sinds 2015 het literaire festival Festiwal Góry Literatury organiseert. Haar werk wordt gerekend tot de literaire fictie en is bij Nederlandse lezers vooral bekend door de mythische, grensoverschrijdende toon waarmee ze geschiedenis, psychologie en filosofie verweeft.\n\nTokarczuk debuteerde in 1989 met een dichtbundel en publiceerde haar eerste roman in 1993; beide verschenen niet in het Nederlands. De literaire erkenning kwam met Oer en andere tijden (1996, Nederlandse vertaling 1998) en Huis voor de dag, huis voor de nacht (1998, vertaald in 2000), beide door Karol Lesman naar het Nederlands gebracht. In deze vroege boeken tekent zich al de signatuur af die haar latere werk zou bepalen: een verteltrant die fragmenten, mythen en alledaagse observaties tot een groter geheel weeft, met aandacht voor de Poolse provincie en haar bewoners.\n\nDe internationale doorbraak volgde in 2018, toen ze de International Booker Prize won voor Flights — in het Nederlands verschenen als De rustelozen (2011, vertaald door Greet Pauwelijn). Een jaar later kreeg ze de Nobelprijs, met als motivering een 'narratieve verbeelding die met encyclopedische passie het overschrijden van grenzen als levensvorm verbeeldt'. Haar omvangrijke historische roman De Jacobsboeken (Pools 2014, Nederlands 2019) wordt beschouwd als haar magnum opus en leverde haar onder meer de Nike Award en de Prix Jan Michalski op. In Polen is haar werk niet onomstreden: nationalistische critici verweten haar on-Poolse sympathieën, beschuldigingen die ze zelf afdoet als xenofoob.\n\nDe afgelopen jaren verschenen in het Nederlands Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden (2020), die in 2017 door Agnieszka Holland werd verfilmd als Pokot, gevolgd door Empusion. Een natuurgeneeskundig griezelverhaal (2023) en het essayistische De tedere verteller (2023). Voor Empusion ontving ze in 2024 de Europese Literatuurprijs. Haar werk is in bijna veertig talen vertaald, wat haar tot een van de meest vertaalde hedendaagse Poolse schrijvers maakt.\n\nVoor de Nederlandse lezer worden haar boeken uitgegeven door Singel Uitgeverijen, met Karol Lesman als vaste vertaler van een groot deel van het oeuvre. Haar terugkerende thematiek — grenzen, dieren, marginale stemmen, het mystieke in het alledaagse — komt in vrijwel al haar romans terug, van het compacte Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden tot het meerstemmige De rustelozen en het monumentale De Jacobsboeken.",{"title":28,"description":29,"h1":5,"primary_keyword":30,"secondary_keywords":31,"tagline":37},"Olga Tokarczuk — Nobelprijswinnaar uit Polen | volgendboek.nl","Olga Tokarczuk boeken: van De rustelozen tot De Jacobsboeken en Empusion. Poolse Nobelprijswinnaar, uitgegeven door Singel Uitgeverijen. Bekijk haar oeuvre.","Olga Tokarczuk boeken",[32,33,34,35,36],"Olga Tokarczuk Nederlandse vertaling","De Jacobsboeken Tokarczuk","De rustelozen Tokarczuk","Empusion Tokarczuk","boeken zoals Olga Tokarczuk","Poolse Nobelprijswinnaar die mythe, geschiedenis en grenzen verweeft.",[39,51,61,71,81,92,102,111,121,133,144,153,163,174,184,194,206,216],{"title":40,"authors":41,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":43,"description":44,"pageCount":45,"language":46,"isbn10":47,"isbn13":48,"thumbnail":49,"previewLink":50},"Oer en andere tijden",[5],"Singel Uitgeverijen","2020-11-09","Oer is een gebied in Polen waar de tijd lijkt stil te staan. Alsof God zijn aartsengelen als beschermers rondom Oer geposteerd heeft. De mannen, vrouwen en kinderen die er wonen verbinden het dagelijks leven met de krachten die naar hun gevoel het universum beheersen. 'Wat wij nodig hebben zijn dochters. Als alle vrouwen nu eens in één keer dochters begonnen te baren, dan zou er vrede op aarde zijn', zegt een vrouw in Oer. Maar ook al worden er opvallend veel meisjes geboren en lijkt Oer de bescherming van God te genieten, het blijft niet gespaard voor de kleine en grote oorlogen.",208,"nl","9044544640","9789044544640","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=1NMHEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=1NMHEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",{"title":52,"authors":53,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":54,"description":55,"pageCount":56,"language":46,"isbn10":57,"isbn13":58,"thumbnail":59,"previewLink":60},"Huis voor de dag, huis voor de nacht",[5],"2025-02-04","‘Huis voor de dag, huis voor de nacht is het verhaal over niemandsland, vreemd en ontembaar voor sommigen, verlaten door anderen, maar geliefd bij degenen die het hebben gekend.’ – Olga Tokarczuk Marta is de oude buurvrouw van de vertelster in Huis voor de dag, huis voor de nacht. Marta is geen prater. Maar Olga Tokarczuk weet uit haar schaarse en eenvoudige woorden een wereld tevoorschijn te toveren die meerdere eeuwen omspant. De vele sprookjesachtige anekdotes, die met elkaar een literair mozaïek vormen, vertellen zo de geschiedenis van een klein Pools stadje. ‘Tokarczuk gelooft met een bijna jaloersmakende kracht in de betekenis van literatuur.’ – de Volkskrant",337,"9044551272","9789044551273","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=KXlDEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=KXlDEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api",{"title":62,"authors":63,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":64,"description":65,"pageCount":66,"language":46,"isbn10":67,"isbn13":68,"thumbnail":69,"previewLink":70},"De laatste verhalen",[5],"2013-12-09","Een grootmoeder, een moeder en een dochter ontmoeten elkaar op hun weg naar de dood in drie grote, afzonderlijke verhalen. Ze staan voor de opgave hun leven onder ogen te zien, waarin ieder van hen een eigen plaats zoekt. Hoewel ze vertegenwoordigsters zijn van verschillende generaties uit dezelfde familie, blijken hun werelden uiteindelijk niet veel van elkaar te verschillen.",203,"9044531859","9789044531855","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=bfY4DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=bfY4DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api",{"title":72,"authors":73,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":74,"description":75,"pageCount":76,"language":46,"isbn10":77,"isbn13":78,"thumbnail":79,"previewLink":80},"Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden",[5],"2020-04-16","In een afgelegen Pools dorpje vertelt de excentrieke zestiger Janina Duszejko over de dood van haar buurman en de andere vreemde gebeurtenissen van de laatste tijd. Janina leidt een teruggetrokken leven: ze houdt van de natuur, van astrologie en vertaalt de poëzie van William Blake. Wanneer leden van de lokale jachtvereniging dood worden aangetroffen, raakt ze als een Poolse Miss Marple betrokken bij het politieonderzoek.",206,"9044542818","9789044542813","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=dLTcDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=dLTcDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=4&source=gbs_api",{"title":82,"subtitle":83,"authors":84,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":85,"description":86,"pageCount":87,"language":46,"isbn10":88,"isbn13":89,"thumbnail":90,"previewLink":91},"Empusion","Een natuurgeneeskundig griezelverhaal",[5],"2023-10-31","De eerste roman van Olga Tokarczuk sinds haar Nobelprijs is een briljant feministisch antwoord op De Toverberg In september 1913 reist student Mieczysław Wojnicz vanuit Lemberg naar een beroemd sanatorium in de bergen van Pruisisch Silezië. Hij neemt zijn intrek in een herenpension, waar patiënten uit heel Europa net als in Thomas Manns De Toverberg onophoudelijk met elkaar filosoferen. Ondertussen raakt Mieczysław gefascineerd door de vele verontrustende gebeurtenissen die zich in de omgeving voordoen. Wat hij nog niet weet, is dat duistere krachten het ook op hem gemunt hebben. ‘Tokarczuk gelooft met een bijna jaloersmakende kracht in de betekenis van literatuur.’ – de Volkskrant",280,"9044548662","9789044548662","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=2xTgEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=2xTgEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api",{"title":93,"authors":94,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":95,"description":96,"pageCount":97,"language":46,"isbn10":98,"isbn13":99,"thumbnail":100,"previewLink":101},"De tedere verteller",[5],"2023-03-29","Wat vermag de literatuur in een wereld die zowel kleiner lijkt te worden als oneindig lijkt uit te dijen? In De tedere verteller bracht Olga Tokarczuk lezingen en essays bijeen waarin ze reflecteert op haar schrijverschap, alsmede enkele andere stukken die ze belangrijk en actueel vindt. Zo lezen we over de psychologie van de verteller en het ontstaan van literaire personages, maar ook over dierenrechten, reizen, en vertalers die elke dag de wereld redden. Onvergetelijke stukken die een inkijkje bieden in een van de origineelste geesten van onze tijd. ‘Tokarczuk is een schrijfster met geweldige scherpzinnigheid, verbeelding en literaire panache.’ – de jury van de International Booker Prize ‘Een prachtig pleidooi voor de verbeelding.’ - de Volkskrant over de in dit boek opgenomen Nobelprijslezing ‘De tedere verteller’.",213,"904454800X","9789044548006","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=RCK2EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=RCK2EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=6&source=gbs_api",{"title":103,"authors":104,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":105,"description":106,"pageCount":56,"language":46,"isbn10":107,"isbn13":108,"thumbnail":109,"previewLink":110},"De rustelozen",[5],"2012-08-15","Het moderne leven drijft de mens voort. De haast, het constante rennen, is gevangen in deze roman, waarin verschillende verhalen zijn vervlochten tot één geheel. Zo is er Anoeschka, een jonge Moskoviete, die gebukt gaat onder de zorg voor haar gehandicapte zoontje. Ze vlucht en kiest daarmee voor een dakloos bestaan in de Moskouse metro. Daarnaast is er het verhaal van meneer Kunicki en de geheimzinnige verdwijning van zijn vrouw en zoontje op een Kroatisch eiland. De onderbrekingen in dit verhaal houden de lezer, die wacht op de ontknoping van dit mysterie, in grote spanning.","9044520962","9789044520965","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=B_44DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=B_44DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=7&source=gbs_api",{"title":112,"authors":113,"publisher":42,"publishedDate":114,"description":115,"pageCount":116,"language":46,"isbn10":117,"isbn13":118,"thumbnail":119,"previewLink":120},"De jacobsboeken",[5],"2019-04-10","Door de ogen van de tijdreizende joodse matriarch Jenta volgen we het leven van een controversiële sekteleider. Jacob Frank (1726-1791) bekeerde duizenden joden tot het frankisme, zijn eigen mengelmoesje van joodse en christelijke elementen. Hij kreeg een gevangenisstraf opgelegd toen bekend werd dat er orgieën plaatsvonden onder het mom van religie. Tokarczuk beschouwt deze charismatische, mysterieuze figuur door de ogen van joden, moslims en christenen, van de mannen en vrouwen die hem bewonderden en degenen die hem haatten, en van die ene vrouw die hem als enige werkelijk leek te zien.",721,"9044537989","9789044537987","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=UyuRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=UyuRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=8&source=gbs_api",{"title":122,"subtitle":123,"authors":124,"publisher":125,"publishedDate":126,"description":127,"pageCount":56,"language":128,"isbn10":129,"isbn13":130,"thumbnail":131,"previewLink":132},"House of Day, House of Night","A Novel",[5],"Penguin","2025-12-02","A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology. Another brilliant “constellation novel” in the mode of Tokarczuk’s International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.","en","059371640X","9780593716403","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=Y5VLEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=Y5VLEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=10&source=gbs_api",{"title":134,"subtitle":135,"authors":136,"publisher":125,"publishedDate":137,"description":138,"pageCount":139,"language":128,"isbn10":140,"isbn13":141,"thumbnail":142,"previewLink":143},"Flights","Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner",[5],"2018-08-14","WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by \"A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald\" (Annie Proulx) \"A magnificent writer.\" — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time \"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex.\" — Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.",417,"0525534210","9780525534211","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=T1w_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=T1w_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=11&source=gbs_api",{"title":145,"authors":146,"publishedDate":147,"description":148,"pageCount":149,"language":46,"isbn10":150,"isbn13":151,"previewLink":152},"Huis voor de dag, huis voor de nacht \u002F druk 1",[5],"1999","In een Pools dorp spelen zich vreemde taferelen af.",349,"9052268894","9789052268897","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=hRhDAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=12&source=gbs_api",{"title":154,"authors":155,"publishedDate":156,"description":157,"pageCount":158,"language":128,"isbn10":159,"isbn13":160,"thumbnail":161,"previewLink":162},"Primeval and Other Times",[5],"2026-09-10","For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories - or Times - are a microcosm of the tumultuous recent history of the world. The fortunes of the family of Michal the miller, whom conscription carries away in 1914, punctuate nearly a century of war and occupation. The outcast Cornspike raises her daughter among the creatures and spirits of the forest. The squire Popielski loses his faith and becomes obsessed with a game where progress is attained only by dreaming the right kind of dream. Non-human beings - trees and mushrooms and archangels - have their Times too, as do inanimate objects, which may be 'more important for the world than people'. Alongside bloodshed and betrayal, the dramas of Primeval's daily life mark the birth, life, and decline of its little world and Time, making us consider afresh the stories that help us comprehend and navigate our own. Rich with the capaciousness and innovation that have brought Olga Tokarczuk to sustained international fame, Primeval and Other Times is yet another treasure for confirmed fans and new converts alike.",0,"1804272590","9781804272596","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=LF7F0QEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=LF7F0QEACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=13&source=gbs_api",{"title":164,"authors":165,"publisher":166,"publishedDate":167,"description":168,"pageCount":169,"language":128,"isbn10":170,"isbn13":171,"thumbnail":172,"previewLink":173},"The Lost Soul",[5],"Seven Stories Press","2021-07-20","A beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life for readers of all ages by by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk. \"Olga Tokarczuk’s The Lost Soul, an experimental fable illustrated by Joanna Concejo and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, resonates with our current moment. . . . What a striking, and lovely, material object it is.\" —New York Times \"The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul. . . It pours a childlike sense of wonder into a once-upon-a-time tale that is already resonating with adults around the world.\" —The Guardian The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return. \"Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul—he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... \" —from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old. \"You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul.\" Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018, Prix de l'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY), The White Raven (IJB Munich), and the Łódź Design Festival Award.",46,"1644210355","9781644210352","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=bD_oDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=bD_oDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=14&source=gbs_api",{"title":175,"subtitle":123,"authors":176,"publisher":125,"publishedDate":177,"description":178,"pageCount":179,"language":128,"isbn10":180,"isbn13":181,"thumbnail":182,"previewLink":183},"The Books of Jacob",[5],"2022-02-01","A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club “Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AND NPR The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. In a nod to books written in Hebrew, The Books of Jacob is paginated in reverse, beginning on p. 955 and ending on p. 1 – but read traditionally, front cover to back.",993,"0593087496","9780593087497","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=u3EyEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=u3EyEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=15&source=gbs_api",{"title":185,"subtitle":123,"authors":186,"publisher":125,"publishedDate":187,"description":188,"pageCount":189,"language":128,"isbn10":190,"isbn13":191,"thumbnail":192,"previewLink":193},"Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead",[5],"2019-08-13","WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century \"A brilliant literary murder mystery.\" —Chicago Tribune \"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work.\" —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?",290,"0525541357","9780525541356","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=tbR6DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=tbR6DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=16&source=gbs_api",{"title":195,"subtitle":196,"authors":197,"publisher":198,"publishedDate":199,"description":200,"pageCount":201,"language":128,"isbn10":202,"isbn13":203,"thumbnail":204,"previewLink":205},"The Empusium","A Health Resort Horror Story",[5],"Penguin Group","2025-09-23","AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.",321,"0593712951","9780593712955","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=onRuEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=onRuEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=18&source=gbs_api",{"title":175,"authors":207,"publisher":208,"publishedDate":209,"description":210,"pageCount":211,"language":128,"isbn10":212,"isbn13":213,"thumbnail":214,"previewLink":215},[5],"Penguin Group Australia","2021-11-16","The Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s richest and most ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam, then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic, revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumours of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure, a divisive yet charismatic man—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. 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, considered by many to be Tokarczuk's masterpiece. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead was also highly praised. She is the author of nine novels, three story collections, a children’s book and two collections of essays, and has been translated into fifty languages. Widely regarded as the most important Polish writer of her generation, she lives in Poland. ‘A magnificent writer.’ Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate 2015 ‘Olga Tokarczuk is a masterful storyteller who challenges expectations of what a story can be.’ Age ‘As for Ms. Tokarczuk, there’s no doubt: She’s a gifted, original writer, and the appearance of her novels in English is a welcome development.’ Wall Street Journal ‘One among a very few signal European novelists of the past quarter-century.’ Economist",1201,"1925923886","9781925923889","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=cEbNEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=cEbNEQAAQBAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=19&source=gbs_api",{"title":154,"subtitle":123,"authors":217,"publisher":218,"publishedDate":219,"description":220,"pageCount":158,"language":128,"isbn13":221,"thumbnail":222,"previewLink":223},[5],"Random House","2026-12-01","The Nobel Prize winner at her earthiest and most ethereal, in a fictional journey through three generations in the life of a mythical Polish village. For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories – or Times – are a microcosm of the tumultuous recent history of the world. The fortunes of the family of Michal the miller, whom conscription carries away in 1914, punctuate nearly a century of war and occupation. The outcast Cornspike raises her daughter among the creatures and spirits of the forest. The squire Popielski loses his faith and becomes obsessed with a game where progress is attained only by dreaming the right kind of dream. Nonhuman beings – trees and mushrooms and archangels – have their Times too, as do inanimate objects, which may be “more important for the world than people.” Alongside bloodshed and betrayal, the dramas of Primeval’s daily life mark the birth, life, and decline of its little world and Time, making us consider afresh the stories that help us comprehend and navigate our own. Rich with the capaciousness and innovation that have brought Tokarczuk to sustained international fame, Primeval and Other Times is yet another treasure for confirmed fans and new converts alike.","9798217414048","https:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks\u002Fcontent?id=sa7PEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api","http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.nl\u002Fbooks?id=sa7PEQAAQBAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Olga+Tokarczuk%22&hl=&cd=20&source=gbs_api",{"status":16,"issues":225},[226],{"severity":16,"claim":227,"problem":228,"suggestion":229},"Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (Sulechów, 29 januari 1962)","Wikipedia NL stelt geboortedatum 26 januari 1962, Wikipedia EN stelt 29 januari 1962 — bronnen zijn inconsistent, maar NL-bron (primair voor Nederlands boek) zegt 26 januari","Controleer welke bron voor volgendboek.nl leidend is; gebruik 26 januari conform Wikipedia NL of voeg voetnoot toe over discrepantie",[231,236,241],{"slug":232,"name":233,"match_score":234,"reason":235},"haruki-murakami","Haruki Murakami",8.5,"Beide schrijvers verkennen magisch realisme met filosofische diepgang, waarin het alledaagse naadloos overloopt in het mystieke. Tokarczuks fragmentarische vertelstijl en interesse in collectief geheugen vindt een echo in Murakami's parallelle werelden en metafysische zoektochten.",{"slug":237,"name":238,"match_score":239,"reason":240},"isabel-allende","Isabel Allende",7.5,"Allendes magisch realisme en focus op vrouwelijke stemmen die nationale geschiedenis doorleven resoneert met Tokarczuks interesse in grotere historische verhalen verteld via intieme, mythische perspectieven. Beide schrijven literair werk waarin het persoonlijke en politieke samenkomen.",{"slug":242,"name":243,"match_score":244,"reason":245},"stefan-hertmans","Stefan Hertmans",7,"Hertmans' combinatie van historisch onderzoek en literaire verbeelding — zoals in Oorlog en terpentijn — matcht Tokarczuks manier om archiefmateriaal en mythe te verweven tot romans over Europees geheugen en verdrongen verhalen.",1777290296401]