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The University of Granada has published an anthology of contemporary Polish poetry. The publication includes poetry by Miłosz Biedrzycki, Wojciech Bonowicz, Marzena Broda, Michał Sobol and Ewa Sonnenberg, and it was prepared by the Slavic Studies Department of the University. An introductory essay about Polish poetry is included in the anthology, and it identifies Krakow as […]

A new place on the literary map of Krakow. How do you like it? We invite you to visit a new bookshop on the literary map of Krakow. “Jak wam się podoba. Sklep z książkami” [“How do you like it. A shop with books”] (Stradomska 10) is a branch of the Warsaw bookshop specialising in […]

Summary of the 20th UNESCO World Book Day On that day, it was worth leaving work earlier in order to… become engrossed in reading. We spent the 20th UNESCO World Book Day in bookshops and proved that the centre of Krakow abounds in soulful literary places. The readers who visited Bona, Czuły Barbarzyńca, De Revolutionibus, […]

The literary walk in the trail of Stanisław Lem was concluded with an exceptional meeting with the master’s long-year secretary Wojciech Zemek. By courtesy of Wydawnictwo Literackie, the meeting was held in the unique scenery of the Mehoffer Room in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is rarely made available to visitors. Questions asked […]

The 4th edition of the Miłosz Festival will include not only poetic peregrinations, but also a rich program of music events and a film screening. Outstanding poets Miron Białoszewski and Yuri Andrukhovych together with musicians from the alternative scene, a film recollection of Kornel Filipowicz and, most of all, sensational poets from Lithuania and Belarus. […]

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 […]