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Although there is just a little over a week left until Christmas and most of us are turning our thoughts to the Christmas menu, shopping, and searching for the right Christmas tree and presents, you did not disappoint us yet again, and, as usual, turned up in crowds for the book swap at the Wyspiański […]

Magdalena Tulli – prose writer and translator, a guest of last year’s edition of the Conrad Festival – received the Julian Tuwim Literary Award during a festive gala yesterday. The award committee emphasised that in her works, Tulli “proves her great sensitivity to social issues”. The winner received a statuette and a cheque for PLN 50,000. […]

Andrzej Stasiuk – one of the most outstanding contemporary Polish writers, a regular guest of the Conrad Festival – will be the central figure of an unusual benefit performance of Polish Radio Three tomorrow. The meeting will be hosted by Polish Radio Three reporter Michał Nogaś and actor Krzysztof Majchrzak. The event will be broadcast […]

The National Museum in Krakow and the Wisława Szymborska Foundation would like to invite everyone to the screening of Andrzej J. Koszyk’s documentary Niektórzy lubią poezję (Some People Like Poetry; 1996), dedicated to Wisława Szymborska, which will take place on the 17th of December. This is the first documentary about Wisława Szymborska, produced after she […]

11 people were honoured by Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage with Medals of Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. The distinctions were awarded to outstanding and recognised actors, composers, conductors, and educators, as well as representatives of the literary circle. The ceremony took place on the 11th of December 2013 in […]

This will be a special edition of The Second Life of a Book, because it will be this year’s last! Don’t let the winter chill and unfavourable weather discourage you from visiting the Wyspiański Pavilion this coming Sunday (the 15th of December) in order to spend time surrounded by excellent books. But there is more! […]

On the 10th of December, the inaugural meeting of Krakow’s Zeszyty Literackie Club will take place at the Pauza in Garden club on ul. Rajska 12. The meeting with Marek Zagańczyk, editor of Zeszyty Literackie will be dedicated to the memory of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, outstanding writer, traveller, war hero, author of Mani: Travels in […]

This coming Wednesday (the 11th of December), we are meeting at Gołębnik – i.e. the Faculty of Polish Studies of Jagiellonian University on ul. Gołębia 14 – for this year’s last free book swap in The Second Life of a Book series of events. Before the fast-approaching Christmas, students will swap their favourite books. Volumes […]

We already know the results of the annual Book of the Year competition organised for the 25th time by the Polish Section of IBBY. This year’s winners of the literary awards are Malina Prześluga – debuting in the competition – and her Ziuzia and Ewa Przybylska – not published for quite some time – for […]