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The Conrad Festival has long been known to be a feast for grown-up readers, but the youngest book fanciers will also get their treat. We are preparing a series of events full of literary surprises, meetings with authors and imagination-stimulating workshops. For one week Krakow will again play host to the best and most popular […]

Monem Mahjoub, Libyan poet, philosopher, historian and political critic, became the seventh beneficiary of ICORN’s scholarship programme. We are always happy to introduce the next literary personality who found himself under the wing of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) – says Izabela Helbin, director of the Krakow Festival Office – Literary independence, freedom […]

The story in one of Joseph Conrad’s finest novels, unlike most of his works that are set in remote and exotic lands and seas, unfolds in the very heart of civilisation during the age of steam and steal, namely: Victorian London. Because of its theme, it has sparked a new wave of keen interest in […]

Discussions, debates, reading lessons, and the Conrad Award gala to honour the best debuting author, as well as a concert and, above all, an opportunity to meet prominent guests – writers and critics from Poland and abroad: this is the programme of the Conrad Festival’s ninth edition in a nutshell. The event will kick off […]

The weather was perfect at the last Krakow Book Fair this year in Św. Marii Magdaleny Square. On Saturday and Sunday, 9-10 September, a dozen or so antiquarians and second-hand booksellers from Krakow and the entire region set up their stalls around Reverend Skarga’s column. Given Stanisław Lem’s 96th birth anniversary on 12 September, attractions […]

This September, Krakow UNESCO City of Literature will focus on the celebration of the 96th anniversary of Stanisław Lem’s birthday, commemorating one of the most famous Polish writers, the author of such sci-fi masterpieces as Solaris and The Futurological Congress. Those who wish to follow in his footsteps are invited to experience a month of […]

The aim of this two-day workshop is to develop practices of quality presentation regarding the critique of culture-related texts in the internet.  During practical classes Paulina Małochleb (literary critic, author of blog Książki na ostro) and Marcin Wilk (journalist, author of blog Wyliczanka) will accentuate the literary and broadly defined aesthetic sides of a seemingly […]

The membership agreement under which Gdańsk joins the Interantional Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) was officially signed at the Festival of Arts in Gdańsk. Mayor Paweł Adamowicz and ICORN director Helge Lunde informed the public of the accession of Gdansk into the network at a press conference in the Günter Grass Gallery in Gdansk. On […]

In 2017, we celebrate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, one of the most important representatives of world literature who was of Polish origin. The Krakow Festival Office and Krakow UNESCO City of Literature joined the celebration of the Conrad Year by organising a series of projects commemorating the writer and […]