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  • Book swaps

    For the entire past week, the city witnessed a real celebration of literature. Krakow received the honourable title of UNESCO City of Literature, the Conrad Festival and the Book Fair traditionally attracted crowds of visitors, and we swapped books in as many as four places. And traditionally, participants of The Second Life of a Book […]
  • We won Papierowy ekran!

    This weekend, the readingmalopolska.pl portal received the Papierowy Ekran 2013 [Paper Screen] – an award for the best web site on books. We were awarded in the FORMA [Form] category – for the way content is presented, emphasizing navigation, ease of use, interactive features, and original graphic design and functionality. What pleases us most, the […]
  • Buy a festival T-shirt

    We have great news for those, who are still thinking of the Conrad Festival, and those, who have not reached the festival events, but dream of getting a festival T-shirt with Joseph Conrad’s portrait. You will be able to buy them starting tomorrow (Tuesday, the 29th of October) at two InfoKraków venues (ul. św. Jana […]
  • Precise scoring or what fathers teach future writers

    Football and sex closed this year’s Conrad Festival. But earlier, Reykjavik moved to Krakow for a few hours. Despite the actual distance between the two cities, the capital of Iceland and the former capital of Poland have become much closer. All of this thanks to a joint literary project. Now, when Krakow has joined the […]
  • The life that was changed by literature

    Yesterday’s meeting with Kiran Desai ended with a moving history. ‘I was sitting at Heathrow Airport,’ said one of the readers at the beginning of her story during the evening with Kiran Desai. ‘Somewhere near me I saw a decent-looking man. I didn’t want to accost him, but I saw that he had Desai’s book. […]
  • A perfect hotel, Soviet radio and animated Schulz

    “I have stayed in a thousand hotels. Perhaps, even in two thousands,” Cees Nooteboom enumerated. Does this sound surreal? Why not?! After all, surrealism is one themes important to the 5th Conrad Festival. “Cees Nooteboom is one of the sure future Nobel Prize nominees. His books have been translated into over 40 languages. He has […]
  • Krakow is happy about receiving the title of UNESCO City of Literature

    The phrase: Krakow Miasto Literatury UNESCO (Krakow, a UNESCO City of Literature), formed from letters over a meter high, was put up in the Market Square yesterday. This way, the inhabitants of the city want to express their happiness with this honourable title Krakow received on Monday. Soon, the Market Square will be decorated with […]
  • Bronisław Maj in the Drawer – a series of meetings

    The National Museum in Krakow and the Wisława Szymborska Foundation would like to invite everyone to a series of meetings with people who knew Wisława Szymborska, starting in October. On the 29th of October, we would like to invite you to a meeting with Bronisław Maj, who will talk, among others, about the famous little […]
  • The art of critical thinking

    “I inflect my life in the present tense,” Claudio Magris confessed. The meeting with him, just like the conversation about language with Tahar Ben Jelloun and the discussion about Kronos, attracted crowds of people. The Conrad Festival in Krakow definitely is an event to attend. During the evening meeting at the International Cultural Centre, Claudio […]

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