"I think the most fun and mysterious thing is creating characters." Watch author Olga Tokarczuk speak about her process of creating characters and the special relationship that creates between them. #WorldBookDay #WorldBookAndCopyrightDay | Nobel Prize

Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk describes how her parents being teachers and her father also working as a school librarian “was really a very good beginning for a writer.” In the library, she read pretty much everything she could get hold of and it was here that she developed her literary appetite. Wishing her a happy 60th birthday today. | Nobel Prize