Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish novelist, essayist, and psychologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Sep 18, 2026
Far Left
The Nobel laureate led more than 180 writers in signing a letter demanding proof of life for 12 Eritrean authors detained incommunicado since 2001 by Isaias Afwerki's regime.
The Green and radical left applaud her internationalist solidarity, seeing it as a model for cross-border civil society pressure that refuses to look away from authoritarian repression, in contrast to Britain's arms sales to and asylum deals with repressive regimes.