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This coming Thursday, the 12th of December at 6 p.m., Grzegorz Jankowicz will talk about his latest book, Cmono. Rozmowy z pisarzami, at Krakow’s Pod Globusem bookstore. It is a record of 13 interviews conducted by Grzegorz Jankowicz with the most outstanding authors of world prose and poetry, in which they raise issues important not only […]

Joseph Brodsky last met with Polish readers in 1993. Twenty years later, on the anniversary of him receiving the degree honoris causa at the University of Silesia in Katowice, we would like to invite you to Krakow, where students of Jagiellonian University have created the literary and academic Brodsky Project, as part of which an […]

The Korporacja Ha!art Foundation and Krakow’s Czuły Barbarzyńca bookstore-cafe would like to invite everyone to the premiere of Sławomir Shuty’s collection of short stories, entitled Dziewięćdziesiąte, with the participation of the author. Friday, the 6th of December, 6 p.m. Czuły Barbarzyńca ul. Powiśle 11 in Krakow Host: Michał Sowiński Admission is free!

The Korporacja Ha!art Foundation, the Fragile cultural magazine, and the Śródmieście Cultural Centre in Krakow would like to invite everyone to the premiere of Marian Pankowski’s collection of short stories entitled Nastka, śmiej się! Opowiadania. Thursday, the 5th of December 2013, 6 p.m. The Concert Hall of the Śródmieście Cultural Centre ul. Mikołajska 2 Guests: Jan Bińczycki, […]

This coming Tuesday, the 3rd of December, the Wisława Szymborska Foundation and the National Museum in Krakow would like to invite everyone to the screening of the documentary entitled Chwilami życie bywa znośne directed by Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska. The film is a sort of “meeting” with the Poet – a story of her everyday life, habits, […]

Adam Zagajewski – poet, essayist, translator, one of the most recognisable Polish contemporary authors in the world, won the prestigious Zhongkun literary award, called the Chinese Nobel Prize in Poetry. This international prize is awarded in China every two years by the Zhongkun Foundation and the Poetry Research Institute of Peking University. This is the […]

Neither rain nor the Ski Jumping World Cup competition and the sensational victory of young Polish ski jumper, Krzysztof Biegun, discouraged you. As usual, you turned up in crowds at the Wyspiański Pavilion to participate in this year’s penultimate edition of the Second Life of a Book campaign. This time, Katarzyna Grochola’s novels were an […]

The central figure of yet another episode of the Writers in Motion Audiovisual Library of Writers is Marek Bieńczyk – writer, historian, translator, and essayist, winner of last year’s NIKE Literary Award for a collection of essays entitled Książka twarzy. The interview was conducted in Krakow during the 5th edition of the Conrad Festival by […]

No plans for this weekend? Puzzled about where to look for presents from Father Christmas? We would like to invite you to spend your Saturday in the company of books. This year’s penultimate edition of the Second Life of a Book campaign will begin at 3 p.m. at the Wyspiański Pavilion. You will be able […]