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The meeting with doctor Pietro Bartolo, who cared for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees on the Italian island Lampedusa will take place on the 15th of October at 1:30 PM in De Revolutionibus bookstore (Bracka 44). The interview will be conducted by Jarosław Mikołajewski, author of Wielki przypływ [The Great Influx], where the […]

As part of the Interkulturalia Festival, we would like to invite you to a meeting with Asli Erdoğan, Turkish writer, journalist and tireless human rights activist, on the 18th of October at 5:00 pm at Spółdzielnia “Ogniwo” in Krakow. In her books and articles, Asli takes on such subjects as state-inflicted violence, discrimination and human […]

As a part of our cooperation with Edinburgh City of Literature, this week we welcomed Colin Salter to Krakow. The writer came to us thanks to a grant, funded by the Consulate of the Republic of Poland, the City of Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh City of Literature Trust. The goal of the writer’s visit in […]

Today at 1 PM, the Swedish Academy announced that Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian writer and journalist is this year’s laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the 14th woman in history to be awarded the prestigious Prize. The Nobelist will meet the readers on the 19th of October, during Conrad Festival. Alexievich is […]

Like every year, during the Conrad Festival there will of course be plenty of films – we would like to announce the programme. As always, we are offering some interesting and thrilling pictures from exceptional directors – everything in order to experience the meeting with literature in a more intense way. The movies will be […]

“Strange telegrams from a place of ignorance” — such is the way that Martin Amis described his work during his event on September 26th at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow. The meeting, led by Gregory Jankowicz, the Programme Director of the Conrad Festival, was a prelude to the forthcoming 7th Annual Conrad Festival. Martin Amis visited Poland […]

Peter Pomerantsev. The author of Nothing is True, Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia, perhaps the most widely discussed collection of documentaries about Russia in Poland after the famous White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader, will meet with readers at the International Cultural Centre on September 28th at 18:00. The meeting will be moderated by […]

Literature does not tolerate limitations – we will find this out for ourselves during a special event with Martin Amis, a special guest of the Conrad Festival. It will not only go “against the current” of our usual experience, but also against the official festival week as it will take place on September 26th at 7:30 pm at the International […]

The project ‘Read PL!’ – is a continuation of the project ‘Read KRK!’, which this year will range beyond Krakow. From the 1st of October, there will be 300 places, renting out free e-books in cities such as: Warsaw, Katowice, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk and of course, Krakow. At each place, you will be able to […]