Poland's Olga Tokarczuk wins Noble Prize for Literature

Polish novelist, poet and essayist Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Noble Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. In 2018, Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize. Tokarczuk is the 15th woman to receive the prize. It is the first Noble Prize for Literature to be won by a Polish writer for 23 years and the fifth in all. Previously, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska received the distinction in 1996. Earlier, the Noble Prize for Literature went to Polish writers Henryk Sienkiewicz in 1905 and Wladyslaw Reymont in 1924, and to poet, prose writer and translator Czeslaw Milosz in 1980. The Swedish Academy said Tokarczuk had won the prize for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."