If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.

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  State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in

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• Olga Tokarczuk:

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• Olga Tokarczuk:

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• Olga Tokarczuk:

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