Olga Tokarczuk
b. 1962 · Poland · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2018
Flights and The Books of Jacob; constellation-form fiction.
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- Czesław Miłosz
1911 – 2004 · Literature
The Polish moral essay-novel tradition runs from Miłosz's Captive Mind.
- Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986 · Literature, Philosophy
The encyclopaedic fragment is a form she takes from Borges.
- Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941 · Literature
The constellation novel's mobile consciousness descends from Woolf.
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