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Today (the 28th of January) at 6:30 p.m., we would like to invite you to Czuły Barbarzyńca (ul. Powiśle 11) for a series of lectures and presentations organised as part of the academic project entitled: Polish literature after 1989 in light of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory. The guests of today’s meeting will include: Tomasz Warczok, Grzegorz Jankowicz, […]

Filip Springer – reporter and photographer, guest of the last year’s Conrad Festival – was the laureate of the 3rd Ryszard Kapuściński Scholarship Competition for young journalists. The award was granted by the competition jury: Hanna Krall, Sławomir Popowski, Elżbieta Sawicka, Mariusz Szczygieł and Małgorzata Szejnert. Congratulations! Filip Springer, an archaeologist by education, is one […]

Filip Springer – reporter and photographer, guest of the last year’s Conrad Festival – was the laureate of the 3rd Ryszard Kapuściński Scholarship Competition for young journalists. The award was granted by the competition jury: Hanna Krall, Sławomir Popowski, Elżbieta Sawicka, Mariusz Szczygieł and Małgorzata Szejnert. Congratulations! Filip Springer, an archaeologist by education, is one […]

The 1st of February marks the second anniversary of Wisława Szymborska’s death. In cooperation with cultural institutions, the foundation named after the poet has planned events commemorating the Nobel Prize winner and her works. On Monday (the 27th of January), we would like to invite everyone to Zakopane for the celebrations commemorating Wisława Szymborska’s stay […]

Eminent writer and literary scholar Stefan Chwin won the Jan Heweliusz Academic Award of the City of Gdańsk for 2013 in the humanities and social sciences. The prize was awarded for his outstanding achievements in the field of literary studies and research on the Polish and European culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. It […]

We would like to invite you to Cafe Szafe (ul. Felicjanek 10) on Saturday (the 25th of January) at 5 p.m. to take part in the first meeting within the Ha!art Seria Czytań [Ha!art’s Reading Series] series.  Ziemowit Szczerek, winner of Polityka’s Passport,  will read excerpts from his latest novel, Księga Duchów Rzeczpospolitej [The Book […]

On the 25th of January at 2:30 p.m., the presentation of Babel – an online anthology of world literature in translation – will take place at Auditorium Maximum. The project will be presented by Rafał Majerek, PhD, of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Jagiellonian University (translator of Slovak literature, among others), and Professor Jacek Baluch (literary […]

This coming Thursday (the 23rd of January) at 5 p.m., we would like to invite everyone to the Arteteka of the Regional Public Library (ul. Rajska 12, 1st floor) for a meeting centred around the 43rd issue of the Ha!art magazine – Czas nerdów (Nerd Time). “Limitations stemming from the medium enable us to take a closer […]

This coming Saturday (the 25th of January) at 5 p.m., we would like to invite you to the Czuły Barbarzyńca in Krakow bookstore-cum-cafe to a meeting with writer Rafał Podraza, author of Helena Majdaniec. Jutro będzie dobry dzień. The programme will include the artist’s music, featuring her unknown French songs, among others. Admission is free! Helena […]

Małgorzata Szpakowska – a cultural expert, literary critic and literary historian – has received the 2013 Kazimierz Wyka Award presented by the Marshal of the Malopolska Region and the Mayor of the City of Krakow. The award ceremony was held today (Friday, the 17th of January) at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre. The Kazimierz Wyka Award […]

Between the 16th and the 18th of January, a meeting of the TransStar Europe network – an international project aimed at the promotion of translations and literature – will take place in Krakow. Some of the events are dedicated only to the project’s participants, and some – including the Thursday meeting at Villa Decius with […]

For literary Krakow, the year 2013 meant, above all, being granted the prestigious title of UNESCO City of Literature. On the 21st of October, after nearly three years of efforts, Krakow was included in the network of creative cities in the area of literature as the seventh city in the world. Krakow is the second […]