"Everyone knows that myths never really happened, yet they are always happening. Now, they continue not only through the adventures of ancient heroes but also by making their way into the ubiquitous and most popular stories of contemporary film, games, and literature." - Olga Tokarczuk.
In December 2019, Olga Tokarczuk, the Polish writer and 2018 Nobel Laureate in Literature, focused her speech to the Swedish Academy on tenderness as a way of observing our world, since, according to the author, tenderness has the capacity to show it to us "as alive, interconnected, cooperating, and codependent within itself."
Throughout her moving speech, she insists on the importance of working with what is not easily classifiable—that which is found on the margins—and on the need for languages, metaphors, fables, and myths that help us explore everything that unites and binds us across time and geography.
