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The City of Literature Foundation and the Krakow Festival Office in co-operation with the Krakow Literature Foundation and the Chair of Contemporary Critique of the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University invite you to attend critical workshops. The dispute over Polish poetry continues. One of the steady points of reference within that dispute […]

The season of Krakow literary walks is open! With the arrival of spring, we are setting out on trips to the corners of Krakow – UNESCO City of Literature again.A cycle of literary walks is an exceptional opportunity to broaden our knowledge of Krakow writers and Krakow references, anecdotes and biographical trivia connected with places […]

The first meeting in the Biblioteka Nowa cycle is over In the ICE Kraków Congress Centre, the first meeting in the Biblioteka Nowa (New Library) cycle was held. Speakers from Poland and abroad presented challenges and directions of development of public libraries and the requirements that must be met so that they could fulfil their […]

Libraries of the Future – a nationwide debate On the 15th of April, the Book Institute will inaugurate in Krakow a program of nationwide conferences entitled Biblioteka Nowa (New Library), the aim of which is to elaborate the assumptions and direction of development of Polish public liabilities for the upcoming years. The 1st edition, entitled […]

As a part of the 4th Miłosz Festival, poetry aficionados will have a unique opportunity to get to know new translations and new releases of foreign guests’ poetry collections, prepared by leading Polish publishing houses. This collection, just like Spiżarnia literacka (A Literary Larder) written by Miłosz himself, is an exceptional mosaic of words, feelings […]

The Miłosz Festival and the Festival of Literature of Children invite you to a cycle of events for the youngest readers. From the 14th till the 16th of May in Krakow, children and their parents will participate in meetings with authors, workshops and a city game. On that occasion, Krakow will be visited, among others, […]

The 4th Miłosz Festival kicks off on May 14th. The 2015 edition of this great poetry festival will run under the theme A Book of Luminous Things. This is the English title of the famous anthology published by Czesław Miłosz in the United States in 1996. This year unique poetic insight will be provided by twenty […]

And we’ve come to the end of the largest book fair in the French speaking world, Salon du livre. More than 200,000 book lovers visited this year. Krakow and Wrocław, as special guests of honor, presented their literature and heritage at a specially prepared 200 m2 stand. This was the largest such event promoting Polish […]

On the third day of the Paris Book Fair the Polish stand was visited by the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, who received a copy of Norman Davies’ Microcosm. Meetings took place with over 20 writers from Poland and the world. They discussed poetry, Polish crime fiction, Mrożek, and freedom and democracy. Among the authors […]

The second day of the Book Fair at the Polish stand was devoted to meetings with nearly 30 guests from Poland, France, Belgium, Ukraine and Italy. As part of the Polish presentation at Salon du livre, we held meetings with authors, including, Mariusz Szczygieł, Krzysztof Varga, Norman Davies, Yuri Andrukhovych, Daniel Beauvois, Philippe Trétiackiem, Patrick […]

The first day of the Parisian book fair was filled with conversations about reportage, Polish poetry and the connections between literature and film. Key Polish artists met with readers, translators and the French media. On the occasion of the most important book fair in the French speaking world, the Polish Minister of Culture and National […]

Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Małgorzata Omilanowska, Minister of Culture and Communications of the Republic of France Fleur Pellerin, and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, accompanied by representatives of the cities and representatives of the Polish-French diplomacy and culture were present at the inauguration ceremony of the largest book fair of the French […]