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We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a sense of our own self-worth and ideas for the future.

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Olga Tokarczuk

But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims’ bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

From death’s perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

I don’t have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I’m made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

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Olga Tokarczuk

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It’s like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn’t you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this is not common knowledge – or part of our national myth. It goes against the current romanticised view of the government, and much of the country, that Poles have always been victims, never oppressors.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class novel. You know, the ones you read on your sofa with a nice cup of tea.

– Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

– Olga Tokarczuk

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