“Everyone knows that myths never really happened, but they are always happening. Now they continue not only through the adventures of ancient heroes, but also make their way into the ubiquitous and most popular stories of contemporary films, games, and literature.” - Olga Tokarczuk, “The Tender Narrator.” The Nobel Prize in Literature. 2019.
In December 2019, Polish writer and 2018 Nobel Laureate in Literature Olga Tokarczuk focused her speech to the Swedish Academy on tenderness as a way of observing our world, as, according to the writer, tenderness has the capacity to show it to us
Throughout her moving speech, she insists on the importance of working on 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 links us across time and geographies.
