A Polish writer, essayist, screenwriter, poet, and psychologist. A Nobel Prize laureate in Literature " a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" (2018). She was also awarded the International Booker Prize for the novel Flights (2018), and twice the Nike Literary Award for Flights (2008) and The Books of Jacob (2015). A member of the Literary Union, a professional and creative association for literary authors. Since 2015, she has organized the Mountains of Literature Festival in Nowa Ruda and surrounding areas. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages.