Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Lecture – Literature Prize 2018

I&#x27;ve been avoiding her books but being a Polish I tried to appreciate her writings when she got the Nobel. I found her style technically very good, but nothing special (compared to other Polish literary giants like Miłosz, Szulz or Lem). The bigger issue for me was the contents - it was over-intellectualized and lacking in meaning; a classical triumph of form over content.<p>The best Polish female writer I&#x27;ve read is Maria Dąbrowska and her amazing book &quot;Nights and Days&quot;. Something like Polish &quot;The Forsyte Saga&quot;.

To be honest her books are simply boring. Nobel prize in literature used to mean something, but recently it isn’t about literature anymore, it’s about “who furthers progressive-left agenda the most?”

I&#x27;ve never understood how people can have much to say about a book they read in a translated version.<p>I read a lot of German writers translated in English, and even though I really enjoyed some of them, I don&#x27;t think I can really judge anything but the plot and maybe the translator skills. Otherwise it&#x27;d be like watching a movie that has been dubbed and commenting on an actor&#x27;s performance.