{"id":140122,"date":"2019-10-10T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=140122"},"modified":"2019-10-10T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:25:04","slug":"the-nobel-prize-was-made-for-olga-tokarczuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/the-nobel-prize-was-made-for-olga-tokarczuk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nobel Prize Was Made for Olga Tokarczuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_140124\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/olga-tokarczuk-c-k.-dubiel-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140124\" class=\"wp-image-140124 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/olga-tokarczuk-c-k.-dubiel-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/olga-tokarczuk-c-k.-dubiel-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/olga-tokarczuk-c-k.-dubiel--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/olga-tokarczuk-c-k.-dubiel--768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olga Tokarczuk. Photo: \u00a9 K. Dubiel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve been saying it for years! Every fall, the big night would come and I would set my alarm for four or six or eight in the morning, depending on my time zone, and then not sleep because I was sure Olga Tokarczuk would win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year it happened! At 4 <small>A.M.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>High time, and perfect time. Olga has been charting her own course since the first. She has gone boldly wherever her curiosity led, never daunted by boundaries, be they constraints of genre\u2014as in the case of <em>Flights <\/em>(first published in Poland in 2007), a \u201cconstellation novel,\u201d to use Olga\u2019s own term, that might not be a novel at all\u2014or political and linguistic\u2014as in the case of <em>The Books of Jacob <\/em>(2014), Olga\u2019s twelfth and latest novel, which I am translating right now. It is this intrepid methodology, combined with her firm commitment to the reader\u2019s engagement and enjoyment, that has brought her in line with some of the world\u2019s most pressing current concerns.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Books of Jacob <\/em>is a monumental novel that delves into the life and times of the controversial historical figure Jacob Frank, leader of a heretical Jewish splinter group that ranged the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seeking basic safety as well as transcendence. Considered by many to be her masterpiece, <em>The Books of Jacob <\/em>is also a suspenseful and entertaining novel that remained a national best seller for nearly a year after its release. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although set in the eighteenth century, <em>The Books of Jacob<\/em> invokes a decidedly twenty-first century zeitgeist. It encourages its readers to re-examine their histories and reconsider their perspectives on the shape Europe will take in coming years. In its plot and characters, it celebrates and problematizes diversity. It subtly participates in the debates dividing Europe\u2014and the world\u2014on how to protect tolerance, how to define intolerance, how to set and abide by the limits of contemporary sovereignty, and how to handle, in both practical and moral terms, an influx of refugees into Central Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Working as one of Olga\u2019s translators for the past fifteen years has been challenging only insofar as anglophone publishing houses have been slow to see the commercial appeal of her work. Always wary of outsiders, the editors I approached in New York would often tell me that Tokarczuk wasn\u2019t quite right for an American audience, regardless of how popular she might be in Europe. My efforts to pitch Olga\u2019s books, give her a social media presence in English, and apply for grants have always taken up far more time and energy than the translations themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Olga\u2019s work is crystal clear: her characters live on the page and speak for themselves, and her tone and intentions are equally easy to grasp, transform, and transmit. While she is always ready to help when I (or any of her other translators) have questions, she is also too busy breaking ground on new books to micromanage the old ones in languages that aren\u2019t her own. It is a treat to see her in person, as I do once or twice a year, and to watch as she is inevitably approached, then circled by admirers, all drawn in by her warmth and insightfulness, her alacrity and wit.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m ecstatic that so many more readers will now discover the entire trove of literature Olga has created over the course of her thirty-year career. Olga is <em>the <\/em>Nobel laureate. She\u2019s the one the prize was made for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"il\">Jennifer<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Croft<\/span>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnamedpress.com\/books\/book?title=Homesick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homesick<\/a><em>, out now from Unnamed Press. 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