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Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk Is This Year’s Man Booker International Prize Winner for Flights

(LONDON) — Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for fiction Tuesday with Flights, a novel that charts multiple journeys in time, space and human anatomy. Flights beat five other finalists, including Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi’s horror story Frankenstein in Baghdad and South Korean author Han Kang’s meditative novel The White Book. Tokarczuk’s novel combines tales of modern-day travel with the story of a 17th century anatomist who dissected his own amputated leg and the journey of composer Frederic Chopin’s heart from Paris to Warsaw after his death. The judging panel led by writer Lisa Appignanesi called the Flights a witty, playful novel in which “the contemporary condition of perpetual movement” meets the certainty of death. Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s best-known authors.

 

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