Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk establishes a foundation

Tokarczuk is openly critical of Poland's right-wing government and its policy of supporting only those artists and historians who have conservative views and emphasize national values
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Olga Tokarchuk, Photo: BETA-AP
Olga Tokarchuk, Photo: BETA-AP
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Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk said that she is establishing a foundation for the promotion of literature as well as human rights and environmental awareness.

Tokarczuk is openly critical of Poland's right-wing government and its policy of supporting only those artists and historians who have conservative views and emphasize national values.

She stated that she will invest 350.000 zlotys (81.000 euros) in the "Olga Tokarczuk" Foundation, which will provide support to Polish and foreign writers. It will also promote women's and minority rights.

The writer, who is 57 years old, said that she is happy because she still feels young and because she can use her fame to do "something good for the world".

Tokarčuk asked the director Agnieszka Holland, who adapted her novel about animal rights, to join the foundation's board of directors.

The Polish government indifferently received the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Olga Tokarczuk, and the Minister of Culture said that he would do his best to read her books to the end.

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