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Poland’s Tokarczuk receives Nobel literature prize

11.12.2019 15:34
Polish Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk on Tuesday received her diploma and gold medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at a glittering ceremony in Stockholm.
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Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, attend a banquet at Stockholm City Hall on Tuesday.
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, attend a banquet at Stockholm City Hall on Tuesday.Photo: EPA/Anders Wiklund

She was wearing a dress she said was a tribute to suffragettes and the first woman writer to receive the prize 110 years ago.

Tokarczuk in a speech thanked everyone who stood behind her as she wrote her books. She also spoke of the inspiration she took from science.

Meanwhile, residents in Wrocław, her home city in southwestern Poland, watched the ceremony on a big screen mounted in the Old Town Square.