Olga Tokarczuk is a modern Polish writer, whose works are focused on human origin and place in the world. Questions of self-identity and self-recognition are rather keen in the modern world of globalization, and Olga Tokarczuk, as many other writers, tries to find answers to these burning questions. She does it in her own original way, which mostly seen in her novel Flights.Recently Olga Tokarczuk has received Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 year, which proves that her talent and ideas are mostly appreciated.
The novel Flights was published in 2007, and just a year later (in 2008) won the most prestigious literary award in Poland – Nika Award. It made the author one of the favorite authors of modern Poland. Flights is a kind of literary monograph of travels around the globe, or rather reflections on travel, which are intertwined with mysterious stories that are related to each other by the themes of death, movement, life, and the mystery of the human body. The novel is composed by fragments of essays, travel notes, short stories.
This is a novel about the modern nomads that all the people are. About the internal anxiety that makes a person withdrawn from home. We are all travelers in this world: someone travels for a purpose, someone without. Someone is moving through time, someone is moving through space. What does it mean to be a traveler? The charming and stunning imagination of Olga Tokarczuk's novel is a true masterpiece.
In 2017 the book was translated into English, and in 2018 won The International Booker Prize in United Kingdom. With the recent winning of the Nobel Prize Olga Tokarczuk’s novels become more and more popular.
