Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | Granta

Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

‘They gazed at us calmly, as if we had caught them in the middle of performing some ritual whose meaning we could not fathom.’

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most beloved authors, and the laureate of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2015 she received the Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland’s highest literary honour, the Nike and the Nike Readers’ Prize. She is the author of eight novels, three short story collections and has been translated into a dozen languages. Her novel Flights, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft, was shortlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature and won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.  

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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES's translations include work by Jacek Hugo-Bader, Artur Domoslawski, and Jacek Dehnel. She won the Found in Translation Award 2008 for her translation of Pawel Huelle's The Last Supper, and again in 2013 for having seven translations published in a single year. She is a mentor for the British Centre for Literary Translation's mentorship programme.

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