The only book in English for readers of all ages by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk is a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life.
Olga Tokarczuk (1962-) is an activist, public intellectual, and one
of Poland's most highly regarded writers. She is winner of the 2018
Nobel Prize in Literature (given in 2019). In 2018 she won The
International Man Booker Award for her novel, Flights (translated
by Jennifer Croft), and twice (2009, 2015) won Poland's highest
literary honor, the Nike (and the Nike Readers' Prize) as well as
other prestigious literary awards. Her 2009 novel Drive Your Plow
Over the Bones of the Dead (translated into English by Antonia
Lloyd-Jones), was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International
Prize. Tokarczuk is the author of eight novels and two short story
collections. The Lost Soul, the first book by Tokarczuk written for
both children and adults was awarded a special mention of the
Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2018. Tokarczuk's work has been translated
into a dozen languages. She lives in Wroclaw, Poland.
Illustrator Joanna Concejo (1971-) graduated from the Academy of
Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Her work has been exhibited in salons
and exhibitions France, South Korea, Portugal, and the Bologna
Children's International Book Fair where her work won a Bologna
Ragazzi Award Mention, and many other places. She is author and
illustrator of books published in Poland, France, Italy,
Switzerland, Spain, and South Korea. In 2013 she was Winner of the
IBBY Book of Year for graphic design (for Ksiaze w cukierni /
Prince in a pastry shop, Format Editions), and in 2018 received a
Mention/Fiction (for Zgubiona dusza / The Lost Soul). She lives
outside of Paris, France. Translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones has
translated works by several of Poland's leading contemporary
novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, poetry,
and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the
Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was
shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. She is a
mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and
former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.
This recipe for the quiet life of home is an anodyne for the
feelings of stress, insecurity, angst and loss that today afflict
most of us. Even imagining the fairy tale 'small cottage at the
edge of the city' will soothe readers and their listeners. The
tender illustrations offer fine details that sink deep into the
memory. --Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback
Mountain "Olga Tokarczuk's simple words and Joanna Concejo's tender
images tell a story we need to hear and see now in our brutal
present--the parable of a soul lost and found." --Siri Hustvedt,
author of Memories of the Future
The Lost Soul is a treasure. Tokarczuk and Concejo offer their
readers another way to see the velocity of days, the grace in
waiting, and time itself. Turning Concejo's pages of wonderful
drawings gave me a much-needed pause, and a reassuring perspective
on loss, patience, and reward. --Leanne Shapton, author of
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