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The fund, which is a follow-up to the Immune Bookshops programme that has been running since 2020, is aimed at independent book stores characterised by high-quality, diverse and unique fiction offering. The support is available to places, which are involved in Krakow’s cultural life and pursue the strategic goals of the Kraków UNESCO City of […]

Between 13 and 27 March 2026 we invite five people to Hruszki at the edge of the Białowieża Forest. Residents will stay in a beautiful apartment consisting of five bedrooms (one adapted for a person in a wheelchair), each with a bathroom and a writing desk, and a shared living room/kitchen. The cost of transport and […]

The festival welcomes videopoems that explore the theme of language as a space of poetic resistance. Special attention will be given to works created in minority languages. Details Video length: between 7 and 10 minutes Language: in French or any other language with French subtitles Year of production: after January 2024 Rights: the artist must […]

The Conrad Festival in Krakow is considered the most important international literary event in Poland and one of the key events of its kind in all of Europe. Since 2009, it has been jointly organised by the City of Kraków, the Krakow Festival Office – operator of the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature programme – […]

The matron of the residency is Janina Katz (1939-2013), a Krakow-based writer, poet, and translator who was forced to leave Poland in 1969 due to anti-Semitic persecution. She spent the rest of her life in Copenhagen, where she won numerous prestigious literary awards and translated the works of Wisława Szymborska, Zbigniew Herbert, and Sławomir Mrożek, […]

The theme of the 17th Joseph Conrad International Literary Festival in Kraków is Radical Hope. ‘We hearken back to the concept coined by philosopher Jonathan Lear, who was inspired by the attitude of the Crow Native Americans. A radical form of hope was what enabled them to adapt to the new circumstances, as they experienced […]

New voices and dramatic reading The CELA (Connecting Emerging Literary Artists) programme selects the most interesting representatives of new European prose. Thanks to the translations developed by talented translators, their works can be presented to readers at international literary events. During this year’s Conrad Festival, we will meet three emerging artists: Eliška Beranova from the […]

Olga Górska – resident of Radom. Author of Nie wszyscy pójdziemy do raju (Wydawnictwo Drzazgi, 2022). Winner of the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award and the Literary Prize of the City of Radom, participant of the Visegrad Literary Residency in 2024. Columnist and short story writer. She has a soft spot for The Lion […]

On Friday (10 October), Poetry Night participants will attend two meetings with authors. Nasim Łuczaj and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe will talk to readers at 6:00 p.m. Nasim Łuczaj, a poet in residence at Wisława Szymborska’s apartment, lives between London, Glasgow and the Podkarpacie region. Tang, the volume of poetry she has been working on, brings […]

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 […]

“Tokarczuk and Sonmez’s unusual and highly topical conversation will take place at a time when the world is in need of reflection. PEN members and lovers of literature will be able to listen to the thoughts of these two writers on the pressing challenges of our time. They will be joined by Margaret Atwood, whose […]

This year’s Krokodil Festival was held for the seventeenth time under the headline Under Pressure. The invited guests included authors from Serbia, Poland, Sweden and Czechia. The special event of the festival was the Poland in My Heart presentation dedicated to the contemporary Polish literary and artistic scene. One of the main guests of the […]