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The first interview with the winners of the Wisława Szymborska Award – Krystyna Dąbrowska and Łukasz Jarosz. Interviewer: Paulina Małochleb. Where does a poem come from? Krystyna Dąbrowska: I can never be sure which elements of what I experience and observe will change into poetry. This is why I make lots of notes, because anything […]

Two young poets: Krystyna Dąbrowska and Łukasz Jarosz have just become joint winners of the Wisława Szymborska Award. Dąbrowska was honoured for her volume Białe krzesła (published by the Regional Public Library and the Culture Animation Centre in Poznań), and Jarosz for Pełna krew (Znak Publishing House). The winners are young poets, born in the […]

The coming weekend on Polish Radio Three will be very poetic. First, in the Radiowy Dom Kultury programme (12 p.m.-2 p.m.), Paulina Małochleb, secretary of the Wisława Szymborska Award, will talk about the preparations for the first ever gala of the Wisława Szymborska Award – only a few hours before the event begins. A day later, we […]

Thursday, the 14th of November, 6 p.m. The Księgarnia Pod Globusem bookstore, ul. Długa 1, Krakow The Księgarnia Pod Globusem bookstore would like to invite you to a meeting with the author of Głaskologia, Miłosz Brzeziński. The meeting will be hosted by Magdalena Miśka-Jackowska. Głaskologia is a popular-scientific book, unique in every respect. Every Pole should read […]

Have you always wanted to become a writer? Do you feel you have literary potential? You only need motivation to write a book? Take part in the NaNoWriMo campaign – the National Novel Writing Month. We would like to invite all those who write to take up the challenge and write 50,000 words in a […]

Outstanding composer Joachim Mencel composed great music for some less well-known, “non-obvious” poems by Julian Tuwim. Fresh compositions, filled with energy in new jazz arrangements will be performed by young musicians and singers. We will hear an interpretation of Tuwim’s works that no one expects… Dancers will also appear on stage – thanks to interesting […]

Five nominees: Justyna Bargielska for her volume Bach for my baby, Krystyna Dąbrowska for Białe krzesła, Łukasz Jarosz for Pełna krew, Krzysztof Karasek for Dziennik rozbitka, and Jan Polkowski for Głosy are competing for the Wisława Szymborska Award, awarded for the first time this year. We will find out who the winner is in two […]

We would like to invite everyone to the screening of the latest films of Sławomir Paszkiet’s Wy-Tłumaczenia series – a portrait of Karol Lesman, this year’s winner of the Transatlantyk Award, and of Anders Bodegård, eminent translator and populariser of Polish literature in the Swedish language. 16th of November 2013, 4 p.m. Jagiellonian University, the small […]

The National Museum in Krakow and the Wisława Szymborska Foundation would like to invite everyone to a series of screenings of documentary films about Wisława Szymborska. Once a month, meetings with people who knew Wisława Szymborska have also been planned. In November, a documentary directed by Swedish director Lars Helander will be screened. The film […]