Nobel Prize winner in literature Olga Tokarczuk has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gdansk (UG). The Nobel laureate has joined a group of eminent artists and scientists that includes Günter Grass, Andrzej Wajda and Tadeusz Różewicz.

“We invite you to become a part of our community, a part of our university. We do so because we find your ideas in your works so appealing and so is the way you tell us about the world”, said Professor Piotr Stepnowski, rector of the University of Gdańsk. 

The laureate’s international merits were mentioned by the Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dariusz Wieczorek, in his congratulatory letter. Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018, the same year her novel The Runners received the International Booker Prize. In Poland, the author has twice received the Nike Literary Award. 

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