Today, the famous Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk was a guest at the "Ćirilica" festival.
The guest appearance of this famous writer is the most important literary event in Montenegro this summer, and its hosts are the Municipality of Budva, the Association of Publishers and Booksellers of Montenegro and the National Library "Miroslav Luketić" Budva.
The translation workshops "Experiences of translating Olga Tokarčuk into world languages" opened a two-day program dedicated to the Nobel laureate today in the Church of St. Mary on the Cape.
The participants were: Pavel Peč, Noami Petneki, Katja Walters, Jana Karpenko, Kristina Godun, Karol Lesman, Jelena Jovićević, Jana Unuk, Milica Markić, Marijana Jelisavčić, Mirjana Frau Gardinovački.
Tonight, from 21:XNUMX on the Square in front of the Citadel, there will be a talk about "Transgression in the works of Olga Tokarčuk". The visit to Tokarčuk is the first major Budva project after the announcement of the successfully submitted application for Budva's candidacy for the European Capital of Culture, which was officially announced by Predrag Zenović at the "Ćiricom" festival three days ago.
Olga Tokarczuk (1962), the first Polish Nobel laureate for prose literature and the first Polish Booker winner, double winner of the highest Polish literary award Nike, has been translated into 37 world languages.
Tokarčuk is the only one of only five European Nobel Prize winners. A writer whose work is difficult to define by genre: she started as a poet, continued as a prose writer and essayist, accepted the novel as a literary form, which becomes her strongest argument in affirming the position that literature has the power to change the world.
Tokarčuk is an activist with a leftist orientation, a respected feminist, and one of the most famous defenders of animal rights. A writer who persistently builds a narrative about the necessity of overcoming and changing ossified forms of institutionalism, who points to outdated ideologies and calls for a paradigm shift, consistently reminding all beings who share the planet with us.
He lives in Wrocław, but increasingly returns to Krajanów, a mountain town in Lower Silesia where he started the "Literary Mountains" festival.
As part of Olga Tokarčuk's guest appearance, her new book, published by Štampar Makarij and the Budva National Library, will be presented, a very specific and unusual short story "God the Teller". It is a co-authorship - a book by Olga Tokarčuk in collaboration with Joana Koneseko.
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