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“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 […]

A heated discussion on how to deal with the humanities today took place during a meeting concerning Professor Michał Paweł Markowski’s new book. But there were many more exciting moments during yet another day of the 5th edition of the Conrad Festival. Professor Michał Paweł Markowski’s latest book is entitled Polityka wrażliwości. Wprowadzenie do humanistyki […]

Outstanding figures of the literary life in one film, less than six minutes long – you have to see this! We present to you a special production of the City of Krakow and the Krakow Festival Office, created on the occasion of Krakow receiving the title of UNESCO City of Literature. We would like to […]

Can architecture generate melancholy? Absolutely. Especially if this topic comes up in a conversation between Filip Springer and Marek Bieńczyk. Besides the lecture on Iranian literature and the stories of clerks after hours, the meeting dedicated to space is yet another interesting event of the Conrad Festival. The exchange between Marek Bieńczyk, essayist, writer, and […]

A confirmation of the information that Krakow has officially joined the exclusive circle of UNESCO Cities of Literature, as well as meetings with Joanna Bator and Peter Sloterdijk are undoubtedly the most important events of the first day of the 5th edition of the Conrad Festival. The letter sent from Paris by Francesco Bandarin – […]

After a three-year wait, Kraków is officially revealed as the latest UNESCO City of Literature today (Monday 21 October). We are the seventh city to be granted this honour, following Edinburgh, Melbourne, Iowa City, Dublin, Reykjavík and Norwich! It is significant that the splendid news that Kraków has received this honour is announced in late […]

Claudio Magris – prose writer, essayist, translator, and Germanist, professor of contemporary German literature at the University of Trieste – will meet with readers in Krakow on Thursday (the 24th of October). A highly regarded scientist of world renown, an Italian by origin, he regularly publishes in the best European periodicals, such as the Italian […]

You can find the best books by guests of the Conrad Festival and the Krakow Book Fair on almost 300 citylights in the largest cities of Poland. Scan the QR codes and download free passages. More on: www.qr.miastoliteratury.pl.

Following the speculations that have appeared about the allegedly confirmed date of announcing Krakow a UNESCO City of Literature, I would like to inform everyone that I am personally in touch with persons responsible for awarding the title at UNESCO and no date has yet been determined. Krakow’s application has undergone the evaluation procedure and […]