{"id":45065,"date":"2022-02-18T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T00:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=45065"},"modified":"2022-02-21T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:19:35","slug":"olga-tokarczuk-live-from-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=45065","title":{"rendered":"Olga Tokarczuk – live from Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOUSTON, TEXAS \u2014 Inprint<\/a>, Houston\u2019s premier literary arts nonprofit organization, presents a virtual event with Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk live from Poland<\/strong> on Sunday, February 27, 3 pm CT<\/strong>, as part of the 2021\/2022 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Acclaimed translator Jennifer Croft will give a brief reading from Tokarczuk\u2019s magnum opus The Books of Jacob, \u201ca visionary work that will undoubtedly be read and talked about by lovers of literature for years to come\u201d (Publisher\u2019s Weekly, starred review). The program will also include a conversation with Tokarczuk, Croft, and former Houston Poet Laureate Robin Davidson. This event will be accessible via the Inprint \u2018virtual studio\u2019\u2014$5<\/strong> <\/a>general admission tickets are on sale now at inprinthouston.org. Discounted books are available to Inprint patrons for purchase through Brazos Bookstore<\/strong>. For more information, visit inprinthouston.org or call 713.521.2026.<\/strong> The event will be followed by a conversation with Jennifer Croft<\/strong> (Polish translator and recipient of the Booker International Prize) and Robin Davidson <\/strong>(Polish poetry scholar and former Houston Poet Laureate). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe feel very fortunate to be able to present the remarkable author Olga Tokarczuk as part of this year\u2019s Inprint Brown Reading Series,\u201d says Inprint Executive Director Rich Levy. \u201cWhat an honor! This is one of only five such Tokarczuk events in the United States<\/strong>, and the Inprint \u2018virtual studio\u2019 will make it accessible worldwide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and praised by the selection committee for \u201ca narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.\u201d A bestselling author in her home country of Poland whose work has been translated into more than 50 languages, Tokarczuk has published nine novels, two story collections, five nonfiction works, a collection of poetry, and a children\u2019s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokarczuk joins us to read from and talk about her magnum opus The Books of Jacob, which has been called \u201ca decade-defining book\u201d (AV Club), \u201ca literary miracle\u201d (The Times), and \u201ca massive achievement\u201d (Kirkus, starred review). A journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, the book revolves around the controversial 18th century Polish-Jewish religious leader Jacob Frank. After its publication in 2014, The Books of Jacob was a national bestseller for nearly a year and recipient of the Nike Prize (Poland\u2019s most prestigious literary award), the Nike Audience Award, the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern International Literary Prize, and the Swiss Jan Michalski Prize. According to Oprah Daily, \u201cTokarczuk aims high, spinning a layered, majestic, polyphonic novel based on a real-life figure… A golden age of historical fiction is upon us: Tokarczuk links arms with Hilary Mantel and Colson Whitehead, connecting our own perilous moment with the past.\u201d The New York Times adds, \u201cSophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit… The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokarczuk rose to international acclaim after her seventh novel, Flights, won the Booker International Prize and the Nike Prize. About the book, Marlon James writes, \u201cFlights works like a dream does: with fragmentary trails that add up to a delightful reimagining of the novel itself.\u201d Her eighth novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, earned nominations for the Booker International Prize, National Book Award for Translated Literature, and PEN\/America Translation Prize. According to Annie Proulx, \u201cTokarczuk\u2019s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series is presented by Inprint, a Houston-based nonprofit literary arts organization dedicated to inspiring readers and writers. Since 1980, the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series has featured nearly 400 of the world\u2019s great writers from 37 countries, including winners of 12 Nobel Prizes, 64 Pulitzer Prizes, 57 National Book Awards, 51 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and 16 Booker Prizes, as well as 19 U.S. Poets Laureate. The series and Inprint receive generous support from The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Jerry C. Dearing Family Foundation, Houston Endowment, the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. The series is presented in association with Brazos Bookstore and University of Houston Creative Writing Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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