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9th Conrad Festival is behind us!

As you open the book, it takes you into its power

“This festival continues for more than a week. Ideas shared by our guests are grasped by the audience, institutions and cultural animators who continue the event throughout the whole year”

– said Grzegorz Jankowicz, Festival Programme Director at the Conrad Award Gala that concluded the 9th Conrad Festival continuing from Monday.

The winner of the award for the best debut of the year is Anna Cieplak, the author of the book Ma być czysto, a story about the life of junior secondary school students. “It is a funny coincidence. The motto of this year’s Festival edition is “Unrest”. Exactly a year ago I was working with young people on a project bearing the same title” – said the author accepting the award. “Today there are even more causes of unrest than 12 months ago. This is why, though I am happy with the award, joy mixes with uncertainty.” The award-winning author received PLN 30,000, a statuette and an offer of residency programme in Krakow. Magdalena Sipowicz and Renata Szpilka received awards for the best translators, and Anna Goc for the best moderator. After the award ceremony, Siri Hustvedt gave a master lecture, in which she talked about her writing method and about the relation between the work and the reader. ”As you open the book, its characters take you into their power” – she said.

Before Festival guests, organisers and audience met at the Gala in the ICE Kraków Congress Centre, discussions continued all day long in the Czeczotka Mansion. Writers Wioletta Grzegorzewska and Weronika Gogola discussed if one can be proud of coming from a small town. Both of them are critical about provinciality in their books, but they can also show what is valuable in small localities: brave resilience, caring for community links and charming spirituality. – I wrote Guguły, to answer the question: “In what do the two worlds differ?” – said Grzegorzewska. – “The borders between them are becoming more and more unclear nowadays. Perhaps they will disappear altogether soon”.

fot. Alicja Wróblewska, www.blackshadowstudio.com

Photo Alicja Wróblewska, www.blackshadowstudio.com

An important part of the programme of this year’s festival were meetings with biographers, e.g.: Magdalena Grzebałkowska, Marcin Borchardt, Remigiusz Ryziński, Krzysztof Tomasik and Wojciech Orliński. On the last day of the event, time came to answer the question: Why do we actually write and read biographies? This question was discussed by Klementyna Suchanow – the author of the recently published, two-volume book Gombrowicz. Ja, geniusz and Monika Piątkowska – the author of the book Prus. Śledztwo biograficzne. ”Biographies are for grown-ups something like fairy tales for children” – said Suchanow. “We read them to learn who our authorities are and where we come from”. Though they took up extremely different tasks – Gombrowicz left a lot of biographical material, whilst Prus for all his life guarded his privacy, did not run a diary, did not collect notes – both biographers understand their work in a similar way. “Language skills are very important, it is good if the author has them. But the most important thing is to reach the facts” – said Piątkowska. ”Without them we can write fairy tales or blogs” – added Suchanow.

As every year, one discussion was dedicated to Joseph Conrad. This time it wasn’t the discussion about translations and interpretations of individual works, but about why we can dislike the patron of the Festival. It turns out there are a lot of reasons – his contemporary fellow writers considered him a traitor, because he did not write in Poland or in Polish, whilst later generations often accused him of racism and colonialism. “Conrad could not write in Polish; the contact with the Eglish language awakened the writer in him” – said philosopher Agata Bielik–Robson. – He was interested in universal issues rather than the local ones, trying to find an answer to the questions: What happens when the mind tries to become rooted in the foreign land , the issue dealt with in The Heart of Darkness. “In Poland no one would forgive him that he deals with something else than Poland” – added the writer and literary scholar, Ryszard Koziołek. Panellists also discussed Conrad’s controversial approach to British imperialism. Why didn’t he ever clearly condemn the Empire’s colonial activity? Why did he write about Africans in such a way that he was later accused of racism? – Conrad takes up the issue of a modernisation project but he does not judge it, said Bielik-Robson. — All of his characters eventually surrender, they seem to say: I don’t understand this world and never will.

The series of discussions was closed by a meeting with Jean–Ulrick Désert, an artist participating in the exhibition “A New Region of the World” on display in Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, in line with the programme of the Conrad Festival. In his works he analyses the problem of otherness and seeks alternatives to colonial mechanisms.

On the last day of the festival you could also talk with Joanna Karpowicz and Magdalena Lankosz, the authors of the comic strip Anastazja.

In autumn 2017, more Krakow locations will receive literary patronage. On the eve of Krakow’s major literary event, the Conrad Festival and the accompanying Book Fair, we revive memories of i.a. artists connected with Nowa Huta, a district which is very interesting and eccentric, though nowadays slightly overlooked. New literary benches have already sprung up in the Town Hall Park, and more will soon appear in Krakow’s centre. This is yet another outcome of the City Codes project, implemented by the Krakow Festival Office, holder of the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature title.

The project commemorates, among others, the following contributors to Nowa Huta’s literary heritage: Wojciech Bogusławski, Jan Brzechwa, Maria Dąbrowska, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Hugo Kołłątaj, Tadeusz Konwicki, Paweł Majka, Artur Międzyrzecki, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Renata Radłowska, Wiktor Woroszylski and Stefan Żeromski. New centre-based literary benches will bear such names as: Maciej Słomczyński, Tadeusz Śliwiak and Jerzy Waldorff-Preyss.

All benches are furnished with special plates bearing author names and special QR codes. Once scanned, a QR code takes you directly to a website with an author’s biography and fragments of his or her work. All existing literary benches and Krakow’s selected major literary locations can easily be found by means of the website’s interactive map.

The City Codes project is much more than a well-endowed multimedia e-library which helps document Krakow’s multi-century literary life and accommodate text fragments, invaluable archival recordings, photographs and biographies of key literary and cultural figures. Scattered across urban space, these visually appealing plates of literary patrons effectively promote the UNESCO City of Literature brand among Krakow citizens and visitors. Thanks to this project, the prestigious title enjoyed by Krakow for four years now is more prominent in public space. It also epitomises the concept of urban space interwoven with literature.

Two years ago, 100 benches in Krakow’s Planty received their literary patrons, and since then the list of author names has steadily grown. Currently, Krakow boasts almost 180 literary benches, a testimony to the city’s potent literary heritage. At the City Codes library, one can access archival audio recordings of i.a. Adam Zagajewski, Ziemowit Szczerek, Ewa Lipska, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, Ryszard Krynicki and Julia Hartwig. Other artists and cultural activists such as singers, actors, writers, cultural journalists and literary critics joined the project as lectors. Texts are read out by i.a.: Grzegorz Turnau, Bronisław Maj, Szymon Kloska, Zośka Papużanka, Marcin Wilk and Łukasz Dębski. Thanks to our partner publishers, the City Codes e-library website also offers fragments of audiobooks and audio recordings of i.a. Marek Kondrat, Jerzy Trela, Borys Szyc and Maciej Stuhr.

For more on the project, go to: www.kody.miastoliteratury.pl

Anna Cieplak, the author of the novel Ma być czysto (Krytyka Polityczna publishing house), is this year’s winner of the Conrad Award for the best literary debut of the year 2016. The winning book was chosen by the readers, who could vote for one of debut nominees until midnight of 28 October. The five nominees were selected by the Jury chaired by Professor Michał Paweł Markowski. The award was handed out at the Gala traditionally held on the last day of the Conrad Festival in the ICE Krakow Congress Centre.

”The measure of success of a story is consistency of the world in which the story is set with the world in which it is understood” – said Professor Michał Paweł Markowski, the Chairman of the Jury of the Conrad Award in the laudation. – “The more the world in which the plot develops is obvious, the fewer problems the narrator has with explaining where he or she stands. The author let the characters speak but fully controls their words, describes the world that he or she sees because that world fully deserves to be described. The narrator trusts reality and trusts his/her language, but first of all trusts his/her insights and this triple trust (in the world, the language and in himself/herself) is the foundation of a well-cut story, which all of us can like and find refuge in when the weather is bad” – adds Markowski.

Gala Nagrody Conrada 2017, fot. Wojtek Rojek

Conrad Award 2017 Gala, fot. Wojtek Rojek

The award-winning author received a statuette and the Money award of PLN 30,000, as well as an offer of residency programme in Krakow and the promotion at next year’s Conrad Festival and in “Tygodnik Powszechny”.

Anna Cieplak – born in 1988 , culture animator, urban activist and author of the book Zaufanie – works with children and youth on a daily basis (since 2009 at the Krytyka Polityczna Day-Care House “Na Granicy” in Cieszyn). In 2014 she received the award of the Minister of Kultura and National Heritage for her cultural activity. She was the holder of the scholarship under the Civic Activity programme” (2015).

”I’m very happy that the Jury chose my book. However, I must admit that I feel unrest, though I’m a rather well-contented person. The motto of this Festival is really important for me. I think unrest is justified, seeing how much has changed throughout the year. The change is disturbing but I believe the change will be for better only” – said Anna Cieplak on the stage.

Ma być czysto is a haunting book, talking about Poland we hardly even know. About the dirt of a provincial life where a one nasty gossip may decide about your “to be or not to be”. About grown-ups who are more helpless than the children. And about children who must carry the burden of grown-up responsibility. As if life were not sufficiently difficult, a tired guardian, the great Polish state watches over the fate of all of them. Kinga Dunin commented the novel in the following words: ”An expedition into the mysterious world of «gimbaza». No nonsense, no embellishment, very true, wise and full of understanding to the age of the hormone attack. And not very nice girls. It’s not an Anne of Green Gables!”.

The patron of the Award is Joseph Conrad, one of the greatest modern writers, who began his international career as a writer after leaving Krakow. The founder and the organiser of the prestigious award is the City of Krakow. Its partners are the Book Institute, the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation and the Krakow Festival Office. The award supports not only beginner writers but also publishers who are encouraged to take a publishing risk.

UNESCO CREATIVE CITIES NETWORK
Creativity is a renewable resource and heritage a non-renewable resource, although its interpretation and meaning might change through time. Together they shape, make and co-create the evolving culture of places in a process that is continually negotiated. Harmonizing the potentially diverging priorities or even tensions of past achievement and contemporary exploration is a wider aim of UNESCO. It can be a positive experience and trigger imaginative responses.

In the global imagination UNESCO remains mostly associated with heritage and its tangible and intangible heritage listings are what it is known for. Its scope of work is of course wider, such as in education and science. Since the early 1980’s it has been concerned with creativity as a form of cultural expression, source of distinctiveness and later a source of wealth creation, employment, image and perception of place. But only from the 2000’s onward did the term creative industries come into popular use. This culminated in the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions under which the Creative Cities Network falls.

The Creative Cities idea was proposed to UNESCO by Lesley Hinds, the then provost of Edinburgh in 2003. The idea had been suggested to the city leadership by Edinburgh’s cultural community and accepted by UNESCO’s then Director General Koïchiro Matsuura.

In parallel from 2005 onward UNESCO undertook substantial advocacy work encapsulated in initiatives such as the International Fund for Cultural Diversity launched in 2010, a multi-donor, voluntary fund that relies on donations from governments, individuals, civil society and the private sector. Related advocacy work and documents include the 2013 Creative Economy Report.

The Creative Cities Network launched in 2004 started with a group of six cities. Currently it is a network of 180 cities from over 70 countries. It is focused on seven fields literature, music, design, film, crafts and folk art, gastronomy and media arts. Celebrating contemporary manifestations of creativity is the raison d’être of the network. Creativity is a powerful renewable resource and heritage a non-renewable resource, although its interpretation and meaning might change through time. Together they shape, make and co-create the evolving culture of places in a process that is continually negotiated. Harmonizing the potentially diverging priorities or even tensions of past achievement and contemporary exploration is a wider aim of UNESCO.

Effective networks are increasingly fluid structures and processes through which ideas and values flow and come alive with network nodes providing the energy rather than the centre. Their coherence comes from the multiple relationships, interactions, joint projects and crosshatches of activity that are bound together by common values and aims. They are alert and responsive, where difference and diversity is encouraged, yet consensus is a common goal. They are more driven by principles than tight guidelines.

In fact, it is more the person who collaborates rather than the abstraction that is the city. Networks are a human endeavour. Their engine is shared values, agreed aims, co-created ideas and programmes, joint planning and ventures. These pre-conditions get people to exchange information, knowledge and their potentially powerful tacit and unexpressed insights. This can generate the desire to create time and extra effort, in spite of other obligations, to develop projects.

The cache of the title acts as a badge of honour and can have multiple impacts if cities understand the title as a flexible tool and what it can do. Then it can be an accelerator of opportunities. Drawing the threads together we can see that the designation is an organizing device for certain cities at a point in their development and related to their size. For these cities, like Krakow, its vision should be stated with clarity, purpose, specific aims and targets. This should combine realism and idealism.

WHAT MAKES A CITY CREATIVE?
Crucially every city with the right attitude can be more creative than it already is. A creative place has a strong culture. It is somewhere where people can express their talents which are harnessed, exploited and promoted for the common good. Things get done. These talents act as a catalyst and role model to the development and attraction of further talent. It is a place with myriad, high quality learning opportunities, formal and informal, with a forward looking and adaptable and highly connected curriculum.

The physical environment functions well for its inhabitants, it is easy to move around and connect with each other. Its high level urban design inspires, stimulates and generates pride and affection. The architecture, old and new, is well-assembled, and the street pattern is diverse and interesting. Webbed within the ordinary is the occasional extra-ordinary and remarkable.

It is an environment in which creators of all kinds are content and motivated to create and where there are outlets and channels to exploit innovations or for the sale of their work. It is a natural market place, where people exchange ideas, develop joint projects, trade their products and services, or work in its advanced industries.

It offers rich, vibrant experiences through for example gastronomy, the arts, heritage and its natural surroundings, including thriving mainstream and alternative scenes and a healthy network of third spaces. Opportunities abound: the place is welcoming and encouraging. Its dynamism makes it a magnet and so generates critical mass that guarantees longevity.

The political and public framework has a clarity of purpose and direction, and understands the importance of harnessing the potential of its people. It is lean, clear and focused. Its bureaucratic workings are easy to navigate and it is accessible, open and encourages participation. Public employees here are focused on the job at hand regardless of departmental boundaries. Differences are a natural part of this discussion culture. They are debated, accepted, negotiated and resolved without rancor. Its leadership has vision and is strategic yet is grounded in day to day reality. It is respected and trusted and recognizes its vital role in continuously identifying new opportunities and future-proofing.

At its best, there is a high degree of cohesion; this place is relatively open to incomers and to new ideas, even though these can sometimes be uncomfortable – indeed, creative places are often not that cosy and can be somewhat edgy. You feel this place enjoys its status as a creative hub and the physical environment in which it exists. Levels of crime are in general low, the place feels safe and standards of living are relatively high. It is socially alert and seeks to avoid ghettoizing its poorest. Social organizations are active, well-funded and constructive.

Industry is innovative and design aware, with a strong focus on new trends, emerging technologies and fledgling sectors such as developing the green economy or creative industries. It is well networked and connected and its commitment to research and development is well above average. Cross fertilization across even the most diverse sectors occurs as a matter of course. The business community is entrepreneurial, has drive and is forward thinking. It harnesses existing talents and acts as a breeding ground for new skills.

Business leaders are respected figures in their community and give something back. The community in turn is proud of their products and services and the reputation they bring to the place. There are effective communications systems including local and international transport, high speed internet access and connectivity to the world at large.

Overall, as in all creative places, this place is unlike any other. You can feel and sense the buzz, it is obvious to residents and visitors alike. It accentuates its distinctiveness in a relaxed and nonthreatening way. It is at ease with itself. Its history, culture and traditions are alive, receptive to influence and change, absorbing new ideas which in turn evolve and develop its distinctiveness and culture.

KRAKOW AS A UNESCO CREATIVE CITY
Krakow became a UNESCO City of Literature in October 2013. As a result of the designation the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Office was created within the structures of the Krakow Festival Office. The programme assumed ten key areas as important to the development of its local literary community:
1. Integrate a diverse literary sector
2. Create links between literature and other creative industries
3. Shape attitudes to reading and literature
4. Organize literary events and festivals
5. Support the development of the book industry
6. Improve conditions for the presence of literature in public space
7. Expand scholarship programmes
8. Strengthen connection between literature and human rights
9. Deepen international cooperation
10. Develop literary education programmes

After four years in the network, the City has seen success unlike many other cities in the network, from developing its festivals, which have won international accolades, to retaining its position as the coordinator of the UNESCO Cities of Literature – from culture to diplomacy, it is highly active and effectively taking advantage of the international opportunity and tool that the UCCN is for reaching global goals.

But how well does it do outside of the literature field? Is it using the designation to uplift other creative sectors and artistic fields? We’ll evaluate this through the Creative City Index (CCI), which my team and I are in the process of carrying out.

To participate click on this link to take a short or long survey and express your views on how creative Krakow really is.
Prepared by: Charles Landry

Not only Krakow will present the offer of numerous niche publishing houses during the 21st International Book Fair in Krakow. Between 26 and 29th October this year, a delegation of the publishers from Sankt Petersburg will participate in the Fair in Krakow for the first time!

Three renowned publishing houses from St. Petersburg will be presenting their offer on the C60 stand: Those will be: “Ivan Limbakh”, “Vita Nova Press”, and “Zvezda Magazine” Publishing Houses. On behalf of the International Book Fair in Krakow and the organisers, we would like to invite you to visit the stand, and become familiar with the offer of Russian publishers that is rarely available in Poland.

Additionally, on 26 October 2017 between 3.00 and 3.50 p.m., a presentation of Saint-Petersburg International Book Fair will take place in the Lviv Hall, placing particular emphasis on the presence of foreign publishers. You are invited!

Ivan Limbakh Publishing House

The publishing house publishes books of distinguished foreign authors, whose presence in the cultural and intellectual Russian life is considered essential. The publishing house has contributed to publishing in Russia such books by Polish authors as: Czesław Miłosz, Witold Gombrowicz, Zbigniew Herbert, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Leszek Kołakowski, Adam Wodnicki, and Mariusz Wilk.

Vita Nova Press” Publishing House

The publishing house specialises in limited editions of classic books published with some comments and lavishly illustrated. The offer of the publisher also involves poetry, biographies and literary criticism. The publishing house is well known for its cooperation with the best Russian artists.

Zvezda Magazine” Publishing House

The publishing house does not only publish the legendary literary magazine „Zvezda” that has been issued since 1924 and was trying to create space for poets and writers rejected by the Soviet authorities during the communist times. The publishing house has currently been publishing books that are devoted to different aspects of Russian cultural life.

Tomorrow (21 October), two days before the inauguration of the Conrad Festival, large-format letters will be put up in the Main Market Square to form the inscription: KRAKÓW MIASTO LITERATURY UNESCO (Krakow UNESCO City of Literature). This year they letters will be in a new form, alluding to the Year of the Avant-garde and works by Polish futurists.

The structure to Tomek Budzyń’s design follows the original graphic works by Władysław Strzemiński, with colour patches and three-dimensional graphic elements, referring to the style of period typography. In this way Krakow will celebrate the 4th anniversary of its designation as the UNESCO City of Literature. Large-format letters will stay on the Main Market Square until Sunday (29 October).

On Monday (23 October) a great celebration of literature – the Conrad Festival –will begin in Krakow. We would like to remind our readers that the Writers’ Academy at the Penguin Random House, one of the world’s most important British publishing houses recognised the Conrad Festival as one of the 20 most important festivals worldwide, a must-participate event for every book lover.

What can we expect this year? Discussions, debates, reading lessons, film screenings, a concert, the Conrad Award and first of all , a chance to meet our distinguished guests – writers and critics from Poland and abroad.

 

See you at the festival!

We haven’t seen that yet: for the first time in history, Krakow UNESCO City of Literature has offered its exhibition space at the Book Fair to small, independent publishers united in the Świadomi Wydawcy group. “Let’s talk about concrete activities, because this is how we understand our support to the book market” – stresses Izabela Helbin, Director of the Krakow Festival Office.

Świadomi Wydawcy is an informal group of independent publishers that has been created on the initiative of Wydawnictwo Claroscuro. Fourteen publishing houses united within the group will present themselves at the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature.

”As the first city in Poland Krakow offers its space to publishing houses that have smaller chances to fully show at great fair events, says Izabela Helbin. – Decidedly, supporting all literature and publishing market projects is in line with the strategic programme Krakow UNESCO City of Literature which the Krakow Festival Office has developed as a result of the award of this prestigious title to the city four years ago.

Some small, independent Polish publishing houses have united in response to the increasing troublesome situation on the book market being excessively filled with novelties and publications advertised as bestsellers but not necessarily being of value. The group aims to promote the awareness that books are cultural goods, to promote literature of value, often unavailable through popular sale channels, to enhance solidarity of the publishing industry and to encourage cooperation between various entities operating on the book market and cultural institutions.

”The presence of Świadomi Wydawcy group at the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature stand guarantees that the reader will get in touch with an ambitious book, a book from outside the mainstream”, says Juan Diego Ramírez of Claroscuro publishers. “The presentation of our publications at such a venue is first of all the promotion of book diversity. We are united by the ”shop smarter” idea, which, with regard to books, means efficient, independent marketing (or no marketing at all) and a chance for the reader to find books which bring an added value to their lives.

Such publishing houses as Amaltea, Ajurweda, Blue Bird, Claroscuro, Cyklady, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Janka, Nisza, Od do, Oficyna Naukowa, Sedno, as well as Krakow-based publishing houses: Dodo Editor, Eperons-Ostrogi and Ha!art will appear at the stand, where the books under the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature or Conrad Festival patronage will be on sale, including monographs Życie literackie w KrakowieWszystkie drogi prowadzą na Krupniczą about the former Writers’ House in Krakow, as well as biographies of Stanisław Lem and Jerzy Pilch.

At the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature stand you might also vote for the best 2016 prose debut, to award the Conrad Award and to vote for the best bookshop in Krakow.

Go to Ruwix to learn the solution of the Rubik’s Cube and other twisty puzzles like Pyraminx, Skewb and many more.

As early as on 27 October at 7.00 p.m. in the seat of Krakow central office of the Jagiellonian Club we will meet again for an event which is a part of the Night of the Book project. This time we will refer to the work of Józef Korzeniowski during Conrad Festival that will be held in Krakow at that time.

Jądro ciemności (Heart of Darkness), Nostromo, Lord Jim, Kochankowie sztormowego morza (Swept from the Sea) – are only some of Joseph Conrad’s filmed works which reverberating widely through world’s cinematography. The works of the writer are inexhaustible sources of reflection on human’s nature and an occasion to ask newer and newer questions on the essence of humanity and the attitude of Man towards “a different one” – whoever or whatever “the different one” might be. The greatest filmmakers of the contemporary movie industry have been fascinated with Conrad’s works, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott, among others. To what extent are Conrad’s thought actual for us then? How much can we make now from his words that were written a hundred years ago?

Katarzyna Koćma, a publicist and a doctoral student of the Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Polish Studies, who is involved in studying literature and the issue of intertextuality in the texts of culture, will be a guest of the event, during which we will watch one of the most successful film adaptations of the writer’s works.

The Night of the Book Project has been run by the Jagiellonian Club since 2015 and it was granted a patronage of Krakow UNESCO City of Literature. It organises the meetings and discussions on different forms and ways in which the literature functions in today’s world, and it is aimed at promoting readership and encouraging the Poles to read more often. By its nature, the Night of the Book: Conrad will fit the celebrations of the Year of Joseph Conrad that are being held in Krakow this year.

The venue: Jagiellonian Club, 34 Main Market Square, right backhouse, 3rd floor.

You are invited! On Friday 27th October, from 7.00 p.m. we shall be reading and discussing all night long!

 

More info here on Facebook

Voivodeship Public Library in Krakow invites for the 5th edition of the Krakow Festival of Fear, Disgust and Anxiety Amateurs (Polish abbreviation: KFASON), which will take place on 21st October 2017 in Arteteka (12, Rajska Street, entrance from Szujski Street).

Some authors and artists from Krakow can be met during the panel discussions and lectures this year. Among others, Joanna Pypłacz, Kazimierz Kyrcz Jr, Michał Gacek, Rafał Szłapa and Bartłomiej Sala confirmed their attendance. The authors and representatives of Videograf and GMORK publishing houses (among others Marta Krajewska, Piotr Kulpa, Juliusz Wojciechowicz, and Marek Zychla) will also be guests at the Festival.

Right after KFASON the 3rd edition of Stefan Grabiński Polish Horror Literature Award Gala will be held. The books by Carla Mori, Wojciech Gunia, Artur Urbanowicz, and Juliusz Wojciechowicz have been nominated for this award.

As a part of the Festival, it will be possible to enjoy the exhibition called “Widziadła” (the Phantoms) in the Main Check-out Hall of the Voivodeship Public Library between 5tOctober and 12tDecember. The exhibition is co-organised with the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Antoni Kenar Art School Complex in Zakopane, and by Jan Matejko Art High School in Nowy Wiśnicz.

Krakow Festival Office is the co-organiser of the 5th Edition of the Festival, whereas Krakow UNESCO City of Literature is the Programme operator.

Detailed schedule of the event will be available soon on www.rajska.info and FB/kfason

Admissions to all events are free. There is an age limit of 16+.

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