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Shortly after the November edition, we have the pleasure to invite your to the Bomba club to the last meeting under Ha!art: Reading Series. At the December meeting we will have the opportunity to listen to Aleksandra Wojtaszek who will present her humorous analysis of Balkan stereotypes, and to Jędrzej Marowiecki and his reportage on […]

The Wisława Szymborska Foundation has started qualifications in the 3rd edition of the international poetry competition. The Wisława Szymborska Award for the best volume of poetry of the year 2015 includes a prize of PLN 200 000. The 3rd edition will cover volumes published in 2014. Volumes of poetry originally published in Polish or translated […]

The UNESCO Cities of Literature family is growing! Today we welcome four new cities into the Creative Cities Network in the field of literature: Dunedin, Granada, Heidelberg, and Prague! Congratulations to all the cities on their successful bid. We look forward to many years of fruitful literary and artistic collaborations! For more information about the […]

The Krakow Festival Office and Ha!art invite you to the ninth edition of the Reading Series. The November edition will open with an acoustic performance by Jarosław Tochowicz, an interpretation of Nick Montfort’s World Clock; you will be then taken on a journey around North and Central America, and the Caribbean with Szczepan Ligęza’s journal, […]

Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature’s Reykjavik Reads Festival held annually during the month of October, received the 2014 Jónas Hallgrímsson Award on Icelandic Language Day. The award is given by the Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education for outstanding projects in the field of language and literature and is named after one of Iceland’s most […]

There will be no queues, no shortage of goods and no need to pay! These wonders will happen, and not for the first time! On the 21st of November, the next round of the Czytaj KRK! Campaign, already the third one this year, is starting. In Krakow, thanks to the mobile application, we will read […]

The a5 publishing house and the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow have the pleasure to invite you to a meeting devoted to the long-awaited volume of Ryszard Krynicki’s poetry – Haiku. Haiku mistrzów (Haiku. Haiku of Masters).   The first collection of poems by one the leading contemporary poets have written […]

Today, at 7.00 pm, a multimedia presentation of Krakow – UNESCO City of Literature will be held at the Polish Institute in Vienna. A representative of the Krakow Festival Office will acquaint the audience with Krakow seen from its most beautiful angle – through literature. Immediately after the presentation, Magdalena Tulli, the author of novels: […]

What Krakow and Edinburgh have got in common, what attractions awaited the youngest on the Sunday afternoon at the Festival, excellent and unusual book covers and the changing landscape of Sweden – this is what the last day of the 6th edition of the Conrad Festival was devoted to. Why Edinburgh? Not only because it […]