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Quotes from Nobel Prize lecture — Olga Tokarczuk

born 1962 Poland

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I keep wondering if these days it’s possible to find the foundations of a new story that’s universal, comprehensive, all-inclusive, rooted in nature, full of contexts and at the same time understandable.

Nobel Prize lecture (2019)

That is why I believe I must tell stories as if the world were a living, single entity, constantly forming before our eyes, and as if we were a small and at the same time powerful part of it.

Nobel Prize lecture (2019)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Olga Tokarczuk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.