Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize banquet speech

“Today it is exactly one hundred-ten years since the first woman won the Nobel Prize in Literature - Selma Lagerlöf. I bow low to her across time, and to all the other women, all the female creators who boldly exceeded the limiting roles society imposed on them, and had the courage to tell their story to the world loud and clear. I can feel them standing behind me.

We really have won the Nobel!”

Watch the banquet speech by Olga Tokarczuk, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.