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As you open the book, it takes you into its power “This festival continues for more than a week. Ideas shared by our guests are grasped by the audience, institutions and cultural animators who continue the event throughout the whole year” – said Grzegorz Jankowicz, Festival Programme Director at the Conrad Award Gala that concluded the […]

In autumn 2017, more Krakow locations will receive literary patronage. On the eve of Krakow’s major literary event, the Conrad Festival and the accompanying Book Fair, we revive memories of i.a. artists connected with Nowa Huta, a district which is very interesting and eccentric, though nowadays slightly overlooked. New literary benches have already sprung up […]

Anna Cieplak, the author of the novel Ma być czysto (Krytyka Polityczna publishing house), is this year’s winner of the Conrad Award for the best literary debut of the year 2016. The winning book was chosen by the readers, who could vote for one of debut nominees until midnight of 28 October. The five nominees were selected by the Jury chaired […]

UNESCO CREATIVE CITIES NETWORK Creativity is a renewable resource and heritage a non-renewable resource, although its interpretation and meaning might change through time. Together they shape, make and co-create the evolving culture of places in a process that is continually negotiated. Harmonizing the potentially diverging priorities or even tensions of past achievement and contemporary exploration […]

Not only Krakow will present the offer of numerous niche publishing houses during the 21st International Book Fair in Krakow. Between 26 and 29th October this year, a delegation of the publishers from Sankt Petersburg will participate in the Fair in Krakow for the first time! Three renowned publishing houses from St. Petersburg will be presenting […]

Tomorrow (21 October), two days before the inauguration of the Conrad Festival, large-format letters will be put up in the Main Market Square to form the inscription: KRAKÓW MIASTO LITERATURY UNESCO (Krakow UNESCO City of Literature). This year they letters will be in a new form, alluding to the Year of the Avant-garde and works by Polish futurists. The structure to Tomek Budzyń’s design follows the […]

We haven’t seen that yet: for the first time in history, Krakow UNESCO City of Literature has offered its exhibition space at the Book Fair to small, independent publishers united in the Świadomi Wydawcy group. “Let’s talk about concrete activities, because this is how we understand our support to the book market” – stresses Izabela Helbin, Director of the Krakow Festival Office. Świadomi Wydawcy is an […]

As early as on 27 October at 7.00 p.m. in the seat of Krakow central office of the Jagiellonian Club we will meet again for an event which is a part of the Night of the Book project. This time we will refer to the work of Józef Korzeniowski during Conrad Festival that will be […]

Voivodeship Public Library in Krakow invites for the 5th edition of the Krakow Festival of Fear, Disgust and Anxiety Amateurs (Polish abbreviation: KFASON), which will take place on 21st October 2017 in Arteteka (12, Rajska Street, entrance from Szujski Street). Some authors and artists from Krakow can be met during the panel discussions and lectures this […]

Krakow welcomed another scholar of Residency Programme on 1st October! This time it is Sarah Herman from Norwich City of Literature. For more than 10 years, Sarah has been working as a writer, editor and proof-reader for advertising and marketing agencies, publishing companies and magazines. She has worked as a copywriter for such companies as: Topshop, Fuller’s Brewery, Brighterkind Care […]

On 5 October the first edition of a poll to choose the best bookshop of the year starts in Krakow. It is a pioneer project carried out by the Krakow Festival Office under the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature programme. A group of experts – journalists, literary critics and managers –will choose 31 sites at […]

The 7th edition of the Night of Poetry is nearing – one Krakow’s  flagship project within the framework of the multiannual programme of the Krakow Nights. Various forms of lyric poetry will be ruling again in Krakow on the night  on the 7th/8th of October. You are particularly cordially invited to two events organised by […]