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The Nowa Huta Public Library in Krakow bought out a licence to use the ibuk.pl service for another year, i.e. until the 4th of July 2014. This modern form of using full-text versions of books online is enjoying a growing popularity. The library invites readers to use the online reading room free of charge not […]

On Wednesday, the 7th of August, the ‘Flying Reading Room’ campaign will be launched. Every sunny Wednesday in August, a cargo bike with the campaign’s logo, offering lots of interesting books, will appear on the Vistula Boulevards between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. Anyone may take a book from the Flying Reading Room, and after reading it, […]

From the 1st of August, every person who visits the Czuły Barbarzyńca bookshop-cum-café in Krakow (at ul. Powiśle 11) and purchases items for a of minimum PLN 50 will receive an extraordinary gift – a DVD with Widok Krakowa [A View of Krakow], a film directed by Magdalena Piekorz and featuring one of the most […]

Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza [The Villa Decius Association] would like to invite you another edition of Ogrody Twórczości 2013 [Gardens of Creativity] this Sunday, the 4th of August at 5 p.m. This time, within the interiors of Willa Decjusza, the Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Theatre from Zakopane will present Katarzyna Pietrzyk’s recital based on Wisława Szymborska’s …Świat, […]

Writing poems somewhat resembles making tea. These two first lines are like brew to which water must be added: there are more images, crystallized thoughts in them. And they all revolve around what was in the beginning. But water must be boiling hot ‒ Adam Zagajewski says in Milena Rachid Chehab’s interview published in the […]

From tomorrow (the 19th of July) in the Czuły Barbarzyńca bookshop-cum-café in Krakow (ul. Powiśle 11) there will be a wealth of attractions for fans of good literature. We invite you to the Summer Book Fair combined with unusual literary meetings, film screenings, competitions with attractive prizes and sports tournaments. The Fair will last one […]

This is great news for all inhabitants, readers and lovers of literary Krakow. After months of work, the www.miastoliteratury.pl interactive multimedia portal Krakow City of Literature is up and running; its aim is to present its colourful history, numerous institutions and festivals as well as daily literary events. The portal is modelled on similar websites […]

On the 13th of July (Saturday) at 8 p.m. Polvision showed the film Widok Krakowa [A View of Krakow] directed by Magdalena Piekorz! The film features Adam Zagajewski as the host taking the viewers around “his” Krakow. As you may remember, the Krakow Festival Office is the producer of the Polish episode of the City(W)rites […]

We can boldly say that the Virtual Library of Publishers has conquered our mobile devices! Within only two weeks from the start of the literary vacation campaign, readers have downloaded almost 2,500 e-books! And this is not the end! If you have not yet taken advantage of our proposal to spend summer with a book […]