"We have dreamt up our own history. We have thought up a history of Poland as a land of exceptional tolerance, and openness, a land that did not do anything bad in relation to its minorities," said Tokarczuk in the interview with Poland's TVP.Info on October 7.
"I think it is necessary to confront your history face to face and try to describe it over again, without covering up all the terrible things we did as colonizers, the biggest national group suppressing the minority, as slaveholders, murderers of Jews," she continued.
"I request that you apologize to Poles," one blogger began an open letter posted on the internet, calling the writer a "traitor" and offering 1000 zlotys [$270] to someone willing to "spit in the face of the hypocrite."
"Maybe someone should give her a visit," wrote one contributor to an internet forum, while others called her a "Jewish rag," and a Ukrainian whore."
Olga Tokarczuk: wymyśliliśmy historię Polski jako kraju tolerancyjnego, a… http://t.co/dnreAKZciP pic.twitter.com/undo3NAg3Q
— 1001portails Polska (@1001ptsPL) 7 октября 2015
The interview by Tokarczuk that roused ill-feeling among Poles.
On Saturday Tokarczuk, who is considering taking legal action over the threats, responded to the furore with a post on her Facebook page.
"In connection with the great amount of hate that has been aimed at me in the last few days, including death threats, and in connection with the primitive and malicious interpretation of what I said to TVP.Info, I would like to calmly explain that I didn’t say anything that is unknown to historians and anyone with a basic knowledge about the history of Poland."
