WARSAW, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Key Polish political leaders are among those who congratulated writer Olga Tokarczuk for winning the Nobel Prize in literature, awarded to her on Tuesday in Stockholm.
"On the day of the award ceremony, I would like to express my joy that the Swedish Academy honoured your work in which universal themes and Polish sensitivity complement each other so well," Polish President Andrzej Duda wrote in a congratulation letter to Tokarczuk published on the Presidency's website.
"I am glad that the art of your writing, which has been appreciated for long by readers, critics and researchers in our country and abroad, has now found the highest valuation in the eyes of the Nobel Committee," the president added.
Tokarczuk, who received the Nobel Prize in literature for 2018 (it was announced this year, together with the award for 2019, given to Austrian writer Peter Handke), is the second Polish female writer to ever win the highest of literary distinctions, after poet Wislawa Szymborska in 1996.
A spokesman for Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the prime minister would invite Tokarczuk for a meeting, in order to present her with congratulations in person, once she returns from Sweden. Polish Minister of Culture Piotr Glinski made a similar invitation.
In honour of Tokarczuk's Nobel win, readings of her works have been organised in cities across Poland on Tuesday. In Wroclaw, a major city in the region where the writer lives, the award ceremony is transmitted live on a screen in the main square.
Tokarczuk has announced that she would use the money prize coming with the Nobel win to establish a foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of Polish and global art and culture, environmental activities and so forth.
