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“I just cannot see my poetry being read in villas with any pools, I simply can’t”, says Szymborska in Napisane życie / Written Life about how she imagines the readers of her works, and the audience gathered at the screening bursts in laughter. “When my readers buy my work, they check how much money they […]

Stefan Hertmans walks around like a teacher, talking about Carpaccio’s painting, Adonis emanates calmness, and when Kuba Kornhauser received the statuette during the Wisława Szymborska Award Gala, he turned it in his hands several times, like he was carrying a crystal ball showing him the future. Take a closer look at the poets, as a […]

The Józef Czapski Pavilion, a beautiful day, clear air and a delicate murmur caused by discussions in the café. Ashur Etwebi slowly sips coffee at the table, looking around discreetly. The atmosphere of celebration can be felt in the air, even though it is still unclear what is going to happen. What was the course […]

From 6 to 8 June 2016, UNESCO – in cooperation with the People’s Government of the Beijing Municipality and with the support of the National Commission of China for UNESCO – organized the Second UNESCO Creative Cities Beijing Summit, on the theme of “UNESCO Creative Cities Network: a lever for sustainable urban development”, in Beijing, People’s […]

We encourage all to stop by the International Cultural Centre for an interesting discussion on Kraków in Literature, which will take place on Monday, May 30th at 15:30, as part of the Krakow and the World 25th anniversary conference of the ICC. Gaja Grzegorzewska, Eva Hoffman, James Hopkin and Alois Woldan will discuss the questions: What literary representations of Kraków have […]

Some places do better than others even though they have the same resources. Why? Ambition is a main quality. It generates energy, motivation and passion from which other possibilities flow. It can jump start processes of change as key people think ‘it is not OK to only be OK’. Aligned to openness and creativity this […]

From 23rd  to 25th May, the Sub-network Meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature brought together representatives of Barcelona (Spain), Dublin (Ireland), Edinburgh (Scotland), Granada (Spain), Heidelberg (Germany), Iowa City (United States), Krakow (Poland), Ljubljiana (Slovenia), Lviv (Ukraine), Melbourne (Australia), Norwich (UK),  Nottingham (UK), Obidos (Portugal), Prague (Czech Republic), Reykjavik (Iceland) Tartu (Estonia) and […]

The 5th edition of the Jan Błoński Festival will take place on the 18th and 19th of May 2016. The theme of this year’s edition will be “To see clearly… in translation?” The event is organised by the Department of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University, the Krakow Literature Foundation, the Department of Contemporary Criticism […]

The Children Literature Festival is the largest European event, devoted solely to the literature for the youngest readers. 2016 will see the 3rd edition of the event. The Festival will once again take place in four Polish cities, including Krakow. The Children Literature Festival is challenging rapidly falling readership. Despite the low statistics and gloomy […]