“The World as a Painting”: A talk between Olga Tokarczuk and Valerie Miles
Sponsored by the LOEWE Foundation in collaboration with Granta en español magazine
As part of the second edition of “Writing the Prado” —an international literary residency sponsored by the LOEWE Foundation at the Prado Museum—, writer-in-residence Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, will participate in a live event.
Following the success of the first edition of the programme, whose participants were John M. Coetzee and Chloe Aridjis, this spring author Olga Tokarczuk will discuss her work, intellectual commitments, motivations, creative interests, and vision on the relationship between art and literature, with writer and editor Valerie Miles, who knows Tokarczuk’s work well.
The talk will take place on Monday, 15th April at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Prado Museum.
According to Tokarczuk: “To be a Fellow at the ’Writing the Prado’ International Program is not only a great opportunity to immerse oneself in beauty of the Prado’s masterpieces but also to know in depth how a museum works, its complexity and its people. It is an inspiring and unique experience for writers I feel privileged to enjoy”.
This coming Monday, 15th April, Olga Tokarczuk, author and writer-in-residence of the ”Writing the Prado" programme, will discuss her work, intellectual commitments, motivations, creative interests, and vision on the relationship between literature and art with writer Valerie Miles, editor of Granta en español magazine.The talk will take place within the framework of the “Writing the Prado” programme, a high-profile literary residency that aims to promote daily contact between the fellows and the museum’s paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, as well as with the team of people who work there. “Writing the Prado” invites established writers and authors of international prestige who, nonetheless, are at the mid-way point of their literary careers.
Olga Tokarczuk has moved her residence to Madrid for four weeks, making the museum her centre of activity and contemplation. From this creative process, she will write a text in relation to the Prado, exploring the links between fiction and the plastic arts. The piece will be published in the museum’s collection.
Olga Tokarczuk (Poland,1962) is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of Poland’s most celebrated writers. The author of ten novels and three collections of short stories, she has won Poland’s most prestigious literary award —the Nike Prize— on two occasions: in 2015 for Jacob’s Books (Ksiegi Jakubowe) and in 2008 for The Wanderers (Bieguni), for which she also won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
Her best-known novels are A Place Called Old (Prawiek i Inne Czazy), published in 1996; Day House, Night House (Dom Dzienny, Dom Nocny), published in 1998; and On the Bones of the Dead (Prowadz Swoj PlugPrzez Kosci Umarlych), published in 2009 and shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, as well as for the National Book Awards for Translated Literature, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Warwick Prize. Her work has been translated into more than fifty languages.
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