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Detailed explanation-1: -The Lost Soul (Polish: Zgubiona Dusza) is a picture book written by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrated by Joanna Concejo. Originally published in 2017 by Wydawnictwo Format, the book has since been translated into more than twenty-one languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Joanna Concejo, is published by Seven Stories Press on 18 March. To order a copy, go to guardianbookshop.com. Interview translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Lost Soul. . . is a poetic story of a man who loses his soul in the daily rush and can only regain it in a very special way. The book has many meanings, also inspired by its nostalgic, meditative drawings by Polish artist Joanna Concejo."

Detailed explanation-4: -Her magnum opus is the impressive, 2014 historical novel, “The Books of Jacob, ” which recounts the history of Jakub Frank, a Jew who, as a religious leader, led the conversion of his compatriots to Catholicism in the 18th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Approaching with curiosity rather than condemnation, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk made Frank and his followers the subject of her 12th work of fiction, the gargantuan novel “The Books of Jacob, ” which convinced the Swedish Academy to award her the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature.