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The sum of PLN 4,192,300 will be allocated to the Krakow Festival Office to support festivals organised by the Office. In 2014 the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage will allocate PLN 3,790,000, whilst the EOG Financial Mechanism will offer support totaling PLN 402,300. The co-funding from the Ministry is the highest in the last […]

We invite you to become acquainted with a new literary trail conceived by Ewa Zamorska-Przyłuska devoted to visitors to Malopolska. Whilst wandering along the trail you will have the opportunity to look at some selected places through the eyes of ”alien” writers (as awkward as this might sound). They not only visited Krakow or Malopolska […]

Za żelazną kurtyną (Iron Curtain – The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956) – the most recent book by American writer and journalist Anne Applebaum – won Book of the Year 2013, the award given by the literary monthly Magazyn Literacki KSIĄŻKI. The award ceremony was held at Warsaw’s National Library. Alongside Applebaum’s book, the following […]

Today (the 28th of January) at 6:30 p.m., we would like to invite you to Czuły Barbarzyńca (ul. Powiśle 11) for a series of lectures and presentations organised as part of the academic project entitled: Polish literature after 1989 in light of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory. The guests of today’s meeting will include: Tomasz Warczok, Grzegorz Jankowicz, […]

Filip Springer – reporter and photographer, guest of the last year’s Conrad Festival – was the laureate of the 3rd Ryszard Kapuściński Scholarship Competition for young journalists. The award was granted by the competition jury: Hanna Krall, Sławomir Popowski, Elżbieta Sawicka, Mariusz Szczygieł and Małgorzata Szejnert. Congratulations! Filip Springer, an archaeologist by education, is one […]

Filip Springer – reporter and photographer, guest of the last year’s Conrad Festival – was the laureate of the 3rd Ryszard Kapuściński Scholarship Competition for young journalists. The award was granted by the competition jury: Hanna Krall, Sławomir Popowski, Elżbieta Sawicka, Mariusz Szczygieł and Małgorzata Szejnert. Congratulations! Filip Springer, an archaeologist by education, is one […]

The 1st of February marks the second anniversary of Wisława Szymborska’s death. In cooperation with cultural institutions, the foundation named after the poet has planned events commemorating the Nobel Prize winner and her works. On Monday (the 27th of January), we would like to invite everyone to Zakopane for the celebrations commemorating Wisława Szymborska’s stay […]

Eminent writer and literary scholar Stefan Chwin won the Jan Heweliusz Academic Award of the City of Gdańsk for 2013 in the humanities and social sciences. The prize was awarded for his outstanding achievements in the field of literary studies and research on the Polish and European culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. It […]

We would like to invite you to Cafe Szafe (ul. Felicjanek 10) on Saturday (the 25th of January) at 5 p.m. to take part in the first meeting within the Ha!art Seria Czytań [Ha!art’s Reading Series] series.  Ziemowit Szczerek, winner of Polityka’s Passport,  will read excerpts from his latest novel, Księga Duchów Rzeczpospolitej [The Book […]