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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us” – Franz Kafka.  On the 134th anniversary of Kafka’s birth, falling on July 3, Lokator Publishing House invites all readers to its two events related to a new edition of Kafka’s first novel, The Man Who Disappeared. “The first (and as all the […]

The wspieram.to platform is currently promoting a crowdfunding campaign to publish the book Był sobie król… Poczet Jagiellonów [There was a king… The Jagiellonian Dynasty]. This is the second part of a series for young and adult fans of Polish history by Mariusz Wollny.The author is principally known for his series about detective Kacper Ryx, who […]

For the first time in our series we have had a literary walk along the traces of poetic song. We managed to combine the word and music on the way. Participants in the walk had the opportunity to hear about the rich tradition of sung poetry in Krakow and the songs that have been created […]

5 months, 10 weekends and 100 hours  – this is how the third edition of UNESCO City of Literature Creative Writing looks like. It will continue from September 2017 to January 2018. During the new edition 12 writers will be writing novels of manners. Please send the aplications to 31 July. On the1st of July […]

We invite you to the next literary walk of Krakow, for the first time along the poetic song trail! We will combine the word and music. The participants will have the opportunity to listen to the songs at sites which are connected with them: in Bracka Street (Grzegorz Turnau: Bracka), in Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret […]

The Villa Decius Association invites individuals and/or NGOs to submit applications to the 14th edition of the Polish Prize of Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2002-2003). APPLICATION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2017. We announce the a14th edition of the award of the prize in tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN […]

On 10 June we made a special Literary Walk as part of the Miłosz Festival. We followed Czesław Miłosz’s footsteps in Krakow, guided by Andrzej Franaszek, a literature expert, a literary critic and an editor at ”Tygodnik Powszechny” , the author of Czesław Miłosz’s biography (Miłosz. Biografia, Wydawnictwo Znak, 2011). We began from a lecture at […]

Kraków UNESCO City of Literature invites to a new series of meetings created with writing novices in mind. Guests of the series “How have I started” are award-winning writers who will tell us about their first steps on the publication market. How did they issue their first texts? How did they seek motivation and perfected […]

Siri Hustvedt, Agneta Pleijel, Achille Mbembe, Adam Hochschild, Wojciech Brzoska, Maria Dąbrowska, Frédéric Boyer and Serge Bloch are the first guests who confirmed their participation in this year’s edition of the Conrad Festival. Its leading theme – Unrest – has been drawn from Joseph Conrad’s book titled Tales of Unrest. ”The Polish translation of the title — Opowieści niepokojące — seems not […]