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The Villa Decius Association would like to invite everyone to this year’s last SAGA Literary Salon, the guest of which will be Mikołaj Łoziński, winner of the 2011 Polityka’s Passport for Książka. The event will take place on the 25th of November (Monday) at 11 a.m. During the meeting, he will talk about whether autobiographies help […]

As part of the events accompanying the “Szymborska’s Drawer” exhibition, a meeting with Professor Teresa Walas will take place on the 26th of November at the Szołayski House. Teresa Walas will talk about her long-standing friendship with Wisława Szymborska and tell the inside story of the journey to Stockholm to the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. […]

Sławomir Zubrzycki’s concert inaugurated this year’s edition of the Conrad Festival. It was the second public presentation of the extraordinary instrument called the viola organista – reconstructed by Zubrzycki, and invented by Leonardo da Vinci – the first bowed string instrument whose description survived until this day. Today, media across the world write about the […]

Tom McCarthy – writer and artist, whose works have been translated into more than twenty languages – visited Krakow during the Conrad Festival. In an interview conducted by Maksymilian Lawera – Jagiellonian University student, and Katarzyna Pawlicka – Jagiellonian University doctoral student, he talked about his novel Remainder, which was published in Poland this year. […]

Photographs see cities in the colours of words – Iosif Brodsky’s Venice 20.11 – 20.12.2013. Iosif Brodsky’s Watermark contains something that forces its readers to act. To abandon the place they chose for themselves. It pushes them to take a journey – perhaps the longest in their lives. All of this to make them see, […]

Another episode of the Writers in Motion Audiovisual Library of Writers belongs to Filip Springer – reporter and photographer, a guest of this year’s edition of the Conrad Festival. The conversation was conducted in Krakow by Maria Kobielska, Jagiellonian University doctoral student. Filip Springer publishes in the national press and writes regularly for the Polityka […]

Cees Nooteboom – one of the most outstanding Dutch writers, translator, poet, and traveller, listed among the candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature – is the central figure of another episode of the Writers in Motion series. The interview in Krakow, during the 5th edition of the Conrad Festival, was conducted by Aleksandra Wojtaszek […]

Jakuck. A soirée with Michał Książek. Thursday, the 21st of November, 6 p.m. Księgarnia Pod Globusem bookstore, ul. Długa 1 Krakow The Wydawnictwo Czarne publishing house, New Eastern Europe and the Księgarnia Pod Globusem bookstore would like to invite everyone to a meeting with writer and Siberian guide Michał Książek. I am convinced that Editor Giedroyc would […]

W dzieciństwie stawałam w otwartych drzwiach and PRAKTYKI – we have two poems by the winners of this year’s Wisława Szymborska Award for you. Krystyna Dąbrowska *** [W dzieciństwie stawałam w otwartych drzwiach] W dzieciństwie stawałam  w otwartych drzwiach, a któreś z rodziców przykładało linijkę do mojej głowy, ołówkiem zaznaczało kreskę na framudze. Później były […]