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Do you want to win a mountain of books and learn to write prose at the same time? Take part in our Game of tome! The rules are simple: Bring one book published after 2000 – that is your admission ticket for the event. Listen to a short talk on writing by Maria Kula – an […]

Colson Whitehead, an author honoured with National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, popular literature and genre cinema lover will met the readers on 3 December in Krakow as part of the Conrad Festival after hours series. The meeting will begin at 5.00 p.m. at Pod Baranami Cinema. It will be finished with a showing of […]

The celebration of the Conrad Year continues! This time, the Krakow Festival Office, together with Radio Kraków would like to invite you to one and only “detective story” in the works of Joseph Conrad. The only novel that does not contain exotism and the sea, and the only Conrad’s book set entirely on the territory […]

Almost 150 restaurants and cafes all over Poland have joined Czytaj PL – one of the biggest actions aimed at promoting reading in the world. During their visit in a restaurant, the guests will get codes enabling them to download some e-books. Waiting for their meal, they will be able to look through the books […]

23 November, 6.00 p.m., at Piwnica Pod Baranami. 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Bolesław Leśmian and at the same time, the 140th anniversary of his birth. For that reason, UNIVERSITAS the Society of Scientific Work Authors and Publishers together with Krakow Festival Office would like to invite you to take part […]

On Tuesday, 28th November at 7.00 p.m. we will meet on an event devoted to “the fourth Bard” – Stanisław Wyspiański. The meeting in Krakow – the city which had become a space for his work as a whole will take place in the seat of the Jagiellonian Club at 34, Main Market Square. Stanisław […]

The lover of history, beautiful publications or just good literature will be pleased to hear that a book Był sobie król… Poczet Jagiellonów by Mariusz and Zuza Wollny has just been published. It is a second part of an extraordinarily interesting popular science series for native history lovers of any age. On the pages of several volumes, […]

There are ongoing celebrations of the round anniversary of 160th birthday of Joseph Conrad that occurs this year. On this occasion, Krakow Festival Office, together with Krakow Radio Station would like to invite you to listen to a radio drama Serce ciemności with the participation of Jan Nowicki and Jerzy Trela. It will conclude the series of […]

Today, at 6.30 p.m. there will be a meeting pertaining to one of the most important authors of Polish 20th century literature – Witold Gombrowicz. This time, the work of Polish prosaist, playwright and essayist will be confronted with a lesson of Polish in a contemporary school. The event which is a part of the Night […]