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Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT (2019)

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Tokarczuk, Olga

Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential college, but from the age of one she grew up in the town of Kietrz. As an adult, Olga Tokarczuk moved to Warsaw, trained as a Jungian psychologist and has also worked as a psychotherapist. She has since lived in many places, but is now settled in Wroclaw and Nowa Ruda close to...

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Portrait image of Thomas Keneally Photo: Camera Press / James Veysey / TT (2007)

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Keneally, Thomas

The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Australia in the 19th century. He is one of Australia’s best-known literary figures, and has written a large number of novels and non-fiction works. He gained international fame with his dramatized biography of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi who was friendly to Jews, Schindler’s Ark...

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