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

Sample of authors

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...

Further reading

Portrait image of Dorothy Uhnak Photo: Colin McConnell /Toronto Star via Getty Images (1978)

Sample of authors

Uhnak, Dorothy

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the Bronx, New York, where she lived all her life. Her father was a projectionist who occasionally cooperated with the police when they needed to consult a movie expert. His daughter became fascinated with police procedure and soon became a fixture at the local precinct where she...

Further reading