Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Polish is the true first (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2009). The census is correct that the UK precedes for English: Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 12 September 2018 precedes the American edition — Riverhead Books, New York, 13 August 2019, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-525-54133-2 — by eleven months; both the Fitzcarraldo and the Riverhead are collected, the Fitzcarraldo as the first in English and the Riverhead as the US first. One correction of framing: the Fitzcarraldo edition preceded the Nobel rather than being driven by it — the Swedish Academy announced Tokarczuk's postponed 2018 prize in October 2019, thirteen months after UK publication and two months after US publication; the International Booker shortlisting came in 2019.