Warsaw (AFP)
The Polish Conservative Minister of Culture made amends Thursday after recently acknowledging that he was unable to finish reading a book by Olga Tokarczuk, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and promised to get over it.
Olga Tokarczuk, leftist, environmentalist and vegetarian, is regularly shunned and criticized by the nationalist conservatives in power in Poland, who also criticize his stance on Polish history.
"I tried but I have never managed to finish one," Minister Piotr Glinski told reporters on the books of the literary woman on Monday.
On Thursday, Mr Glinski congratulated Olga Tokarczuk on his success, which he says is "proof that Polish literature is well appreciated around the world".
He also "committed to complete his never-ending readings of the works of the Nobel laureate" on his twitter account.
For his part, but referring to the unfortunate statements of the minister, the president of the European Council Donald Tusk, beast of the Polish conservatives, said to have "read all" of it.
"Dear Olga, most sincere congratulations, what joy and pride I am going to boast about in Brussels as a Pole and faithful reader who has read everything from beginning to end," Tusk tweeted.
Asked about this anecdotal situation, Ms. Tokarczuk humbly felt that "there are readers for whom this (her writings) may well be boring and not appropriate to their temperament".
"Everyone does not have to read me," she added in an interview with TVN24.
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk for the 2018 edition, postponed one year after a sexual assault scandal, and to Austria's Peter Handke for 2019, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday.
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