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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 […]

The International Literature Showcase is set to kick off in Norwich UNESCO City of Literature on March 18th! This event, organized by the Writers’ Centre Norwich, British Council and supported by Arts Council England, will bring together representatives from the international literary community (over 20 countries) to share their experience, work, and innovative ideas for the […]