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On Friday (the 6th of September), we would like to invite you to the Bona café and bookstore at ul. Kanonicza 11 for a special screening of the film Widok Krakowa [A View of Krakow] directed by Magdalena Piekorz. The screening will start at 6.30 p.m. Entrance is free of charge! We would like to […]

Wydawnictwo Literackie, Fundacja Panteon Narodowy and the City of Krakow would like to announce that the funeral of Sławomir Mrożek will take place in Krakow on Tuesday, September 17th, at 1 p.m. at St. Peter and Paul Church. The service will be conducted by the Krakow Metropolitan Bishop, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz. Earlier that day, at […]

After Warsaw and Łódź, it is high time for Krakow. This is where, on the 26th of October, the third edition of Rymoliryktando, that is a national spelling competition originated by one of the most valued contemporary lyricists of the young generation, Łukasz L.U.C Rostkowski, will take place. Where will the spelling competition be held? […]

Wydawnictwo Literackie and the Noir Sur Blanc publishing house are very sorry to inform that early in the morning of the 15th of August, Sławomir Mrożek died in Nice at the age of 83. He was a writer of world renown, an intellectual, an authority, and an important figure to many generations of Poles. Sławomir […]

This coming Tuesday (the 20th of August) at 8 p.m., we would like to invite you to the Literki music club (ul. Berka Joselewicza 21) to the first in the series of screenings of Widok Krakowa (A View of Krakow) directed by Magdalena Piekorz! The film features Adam Zagajewski as the host taking the viewers […]

We once again encourage: let’s take books to the streets, let’s all change the fact that books are associated with libraries only. The second edition of a competition for artists, accompanying the Conrad Festival, is being launched under the theme of Book – the Perfect Medium. We are waiting for designs of original installations inspired […]

The Free Reading Zone is waiting for submissions of places for its literary guide to Malopolska. “Strefa Wolnego Czytania (Free Reading Zone) is for those who have selected reading and focus on literature: readers, publishers, and animators of culture. For all those who show others how to live and breathe books in a city that […]

Lady Gaga opened a reading marathon of a famous sci-fi novel, Solaris, written by a Polish writer – Stanisław Lem. The marathon was organized by the Marina Abramovic Institute, which was founded by an artist and performer who has recently starred in a mini-documentary Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film. A group reading of the […]

On Tuesday (the 13th of August) a campaign entitled KsięgoZbiór [Book Collection] will be held in Krakow for the first time. We would like to invite all book lovers to join us in the Jordan Park at 6 p.m. In order to participate in KsięgoZbiór, simply come with a book you are currently reading. The […]