Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk after winning the Man Booker International prize 2018, for her book 'Flights', at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London last May. Can she pull of a Booker Prize double this year? Photo: AP
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who scooped last year's Man Booker International Prize for fiction, was recently named among five female nominees for this year's prestigious literary award.
Six writers in total have been shortlisted for the British-based prize which celebrates the translated English-language versions of novels from around the world.
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