Polish author Tokarczuk leads race for International Booker Prize

Poland's Olga Tokarczuk, a literature Nobel Prize Laureate, is a favourite to win the International Booker Prize award for her 18th-century epic 'The Books Of Jacob.' Photo: Olga Tokarczuk

Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk is among six finalists announced recently for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.

Tokarczuk’s 18th-century epic The Books Of Jacob is a favourite to win the award, whose US$65,000 (RM274,000) prize money is split between a book’s author and its translator. She and her translator Jennifer Croft previously won for Flights in 2018, the same year Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.