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The award-winning writer and playwright Elżbieta Łapczyńska, author of Bestiariusz nowohucki, will begin her month-long residency in Bucheon, South Korea, this September. The scholarship and travel costs are covered by Kraków Festival Office, operator of the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature programme.The aim of the residency is to enable artists associated with Kraków to work on their personal literary projects.
Elżbieta Łapczyńska was made famous by the Gdynia-nominated Mowy chleba and the aforementioned Bestiariusz nowohucki (Conrad Award, nominations for the Nike Literary Award, Paszport Polityki Award, Gdynia Literary Award and the Capital City of Warsaw Literary Award). Winner of the Adam Włodek Award, shortlisted for the Gdynia Drama Award and a scholarship holder of the City of Kraków in the field of theatre and literature. She is a member of the Sfinga girls’ writing collective.
The residency programmes of the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature are aimed at writers, poets, journalists, translators and scriptwriters from all over the world who want to better understand the international publishing market and showcase their work to new audiences, all while looking for a quiet space and decent conditions to work on their own literary projects. The programmes stem from a belief in the profound value of cultural exchange in literature between different language circles.