Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels, as well as several book with shorter prose texts and essays. Her book Bieguni won the Nike Award 2008. She attended the 2010 Edinburgh Book Festival to discuss her most successful book Primeval and other times as well as her other work. She now lives in Wroc?aw, Poland. 

January 29th, 1962 in Sulechów (Age 62)