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A landscape is more than a place. Sometimes the memory of a place, the emotions and feelings it evokes can be more important than the place itself. All of it brings us to the discussion of the internal landscape, woven from memories and imaginations. There are landscapes which are hard to remove from memory, there […]

Intensity is an attitude towards the world and many of its aspects, including literature, politics and religion. It has multiple dimensions, such as individual and collective one, and it can be understood as a private experience, as well as one of the aspects of the creative process. The reception of art can also be intense, […]

“Pani Stefa” by Magdalena Kicińska, “Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina” by Weronika Murek, “Dom z witrażem” by Żanna Słoniowska, “Sensu sens” by Marek Adamik and “O pochodzeniu łajdaków, czyli opowieści z metra” by Tomasz Wiśniewski nominated for this year’s Conrad Award. The author of the best debut of 2015 will receive a monetary prize of […]

It can be said that they sometimes took us over or that they got the better of someone. They are sometimes positive, but they can also be a strong and destructive force. If you try to play with them, they might turn out to be dangerous. They help us build relationships and experience the world […]

We are preparing the most important literary festival in Poland and one of the most important in Europe. In the last seven editions, we hosted the best writers from around the world, attracting thousands of visitors and organising workshops and film screenings. This year will be no different – in the 8th edition of the […]

A literary walk and the screening of The Congress, along with a debate about the Futurological Congress at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre took place in Krakow – the UNESCO City of Literature, in order to commemorate the most famous Polish science fiction writer. On 10-12 September, the celebrations of the 95th birthday of Stanisław […]

The works of valued and award winning – not only in Poland but also abroad – Polish illustrators of the young generation will be exhibited in the Art Bunker Gallery of Contemporary Art starting on the 16th of September. This coming Friday at 6.00 PM, join us for the opening of the exhibition “Snakes, Daggers and […]

Faith is the most private of all experiences, and at the same time always inscribed in the social context. By believing in something, we share strong convictions with others. Therefore, faith may be both the source of the sense of community, as well as alienation – it connects and antagonises. The second day of the […]

“We want to go to the cellar and wait through the coming of history, like people used to wait through the air raids in the past. But it’s not going to happen. We are too small, and the world has become too big”, diagnosed Andrzej Stasiuk, with whom Aleksander Nawarecki will talk during this year’s […]

A walk in the footsteps of Stanisław Lem, screening of The Congress and a debate The Futurological Congress, or the world in the system of universal charity – this is how Krakow will celebrate the birthday of Stanisław Lem on the 10th and 12th of September. The writer, whose works have been read by generations […]

Some shiny, new shelves with books published by local publishing houses were installed in over a dozen hospitals and social welfare centres in Krakow. All because of the Shelves with Culture campaign, carried out as part of  The Second Life of a Book cycle by the Krakow Festival Office – operator of the Krakow – UNESCO City […]

Richard Flanagan – author of the cult Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish, Michael Cunningham – famous for the Pulitzer-winning The Hours, which was also adapted into a film, Eleanor Catton – the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize in history, and Géza Röhrig – a prominent writer and actor, known […]