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On the 25th of January at 2:30 p.m., the presentation of Babel – an online anthology of world literature in translation – will take place at Auditorium Maximum. The project will be presented by Rafał Majerek, PhD, of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Jagiellonian University (translator of Slovak literature, among others), and Professor Jacek Baluch (literary […]

This coming Thursday (the 23rd of January) at 5 p.m., we would like to invite everyone to the Arteteka of the Regional Public Library (ul. Rajska 12, 1st floor) for a meeting centred around the 43rd issue of the Ha!art magazine – Czas nerdów (Nerd Time). “Limitations stemming from the medium enable us to take a closer […]

This coming Saturday (the 25th of January) at 5 p.m., we would like to invite you to the Czuły Barbarzyńca in Krakow bookstore-cum-cafe to a meeting with writer Rafał Podraza, author of Helena Majdaniec. Jutro będzie dobry dzień. The programme will include the artist’s music, featuring her unknown French songs, among others. Admission is free! Helena […]

Małgorzata Szpakowska – a cultural expert, literary critic and literary historian – has received the 2013 Kazimierz Wyka Award presented by the Marshal of the Malopolska Region and the Mayor of the City of Krakow. The award ceremony was held today (Friday, the 17th of January) at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre. The Kazimierz Wyka Award […]

Between the 16th and the 18th of January, a meeting of the TransStar Europe network – an international project aimed at the promotion of translations and literature – will take place in Krakow. Some of the events are dedicated only to the project’s participants, and some – including the Thursday meeting at Villa Decius with […]

For literary Krakow, the year 2013 meant, above all, being granted the prestigious title of UNESCO City of Literature. On the 21st of October, after nearly three years of efforts, Krakow was included in the network of creative cities in the area of literature as the seventh city in the world. Krakow is the second […]

For most people, Krupnicza is a place where they have a chance to park their car in the city centre. Eat dinner. Have coffee with someone. They probably visited the Mehoffer House once on a school trip. They bought a newspaper at a newsagent’s opposite. Those who were late for something ran along the pavement […]

January 4th marks ten years since Dorota Terakowska passed away. She was an outstanding writer, whose books have been loved by a few generations of young readers. She was born in Krakow on 30 August 1938. She attended the Musical Secondary School and the Joteyko Secondary School from which she was expelled for lack of […]

The journalists of Dziennik Polski have summed up the past year and traditionally granted the titles of TOP (most successful) and WTOPA (least successful) events of the year. We are proud to inform that Krakow becoming a UNESCO City of Literature is seen as the most important and prestigious event of the year. “It was […]