Olga Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechow near Zielona Gora, Poland. A recipient of all of Poland's top literary awards, she is one of the most critically acclaimed authors of her generation. After finishing her psychology degree at the University of Warsaw, she initially practiced as a therapist and often cites C.G. Jung as an inspiration for her work, in which mythmaking has become a hallmark. Her work has received nearly every major literary award at home and abroad, and Tokarczuk's importance as a writer was recognized with her being awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Primeval and Other Times is a major novel with a scope and depth
rarely achieved in contemporary literature. Its complexity extends
beyond the vast number of interrelated characters contained in
Tokarczuk's lushly imaginative narrative to the emotional
tribulations of several decades in the history of a microcosmic
village. Tokarczuk reminds us why we read novels: to enter a
fictional world at once completely foreign and poignantly
familiar.
-- The Prague Post The book struck deep chords in readers, who
responded to it as if a luminous new way of presenting 20th-century
Poland had been found.
--The Economist The prose of Primeval and Other Times has a
strangely sedating effect in reading. Quietly powerful, it is a
tale not soon to be forgotten.
-- World Literature Today
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