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“The Poetry Night is history now, but it only marked the beginning of a series of literary events that will take place this autumn in Krakow. This is our guide to the ones you cannot miss,” we can read in today’s issue of Gazeta Wyborcza w Krakowie. Out of eight events recommended by the newspaper, […]

On the 23rd of September, the II Chair of Internal Diseases at the Medical College of Jagiellonian University at ul. Skawińska 8 will be named after professor Andrzej Szczeklik. The professor was not only an outstanding medical doctor and a renown scientist, but also a friend to many artists and a writer – he wrote […]

Today’s episode of Klub Trójki will be devoted to Sławomir Mrożek, who passed away a month ago. Barbara Marcinik will host Professor Jerzy Jarzębski of Jagiellonian University and Bogdan Ciosek, a director who worked together with Mrożek. “The director and the author of the play “Mołotow” [Molotov] met at the beginning of the year in […]

On Tuesday, the 17th of September, Krakow bid farewell to outstanding writer, playwright and graphic artist, Sławomir Mrożek. After a funeral service conducted by Krakow Metropolitan Bishop, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, the urn with the writer’s ashes was buried in National Pnatheon at St. Peter and Paul Church. Sławomir Mrożek was honoured posthumously with Krzyż Wielki […]

Wydawnictwo Literackie, Fundacja Panteon Narodowy and the City of Krakow would like to remind that the funeral of Sławomir Mrożek will take place in Krakow this Tuesday, the 17th of September, at 1:00 p.m. at St. Peter and Paul Church. The service will be conducted by Krakow Metropolitan Bishop, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz. The programme of […]

Julian Tuwim is one of the most popular poets of the 20th century. His beautiful poems move and entertain subsequent generations of readers, both children and adults. As 2013 has been announced the Julian Tuwim Year and the 13th of September is the poet’s birthday anniversary, Czas Dzieci Foundation is organising events in Poland’s five […]

How to create a perfect hero? How to prepare yourself for writing? What should you keep in mind while constructing your plot? Is it really necessary to have an outline of a novel drafted in advance? How to put words into a sentence? You will learn this and many other things from Marek Krajewski! Take […]

Within the scope of this year’s edition of the Narodowe Czytanie [National Reading] project, works by Aleksander Fredro will be read out loud in public places of almost 250 cities and towns all over Poland, including Krakow. The key element of the Krakow programme will be public reading of Zemsta [Vengeance] that will take place […]

Krakow Festival Office have been awarded the Marka Radia Kraków! Yesterday, a jury comprised of journalists representing the Krakow media awarded two readership promotion campaigns: Drugie Życie Książki [The Second Life of a Book] and Wirtualna Biblioteka Wydawców [Publishers’ Virtual Library]. In their substantiation for awarding Drugie Życie Książki, which is organised in cooperation with […]

In the first post-holiday edition of the Radio Krakow Brand, we are selecting the literary event of the summer – reads an announcement at the Radio’s website. And summer already starts in June, because this is when Krakow lived and breathed literature, most of all poetry. In July and August, the months during which publishing […]

The 700th issue of Znak monthly magazine, one of the oldest Polish periodicals, has been released. In the jubilee edition, the readers will find, among others, 7 key questions on the history of the magazine and special birthday discount coupons for the most important cultural events held all over Poland, including the December concert within […]

Money and, to be precise, the lack of it, is the theme of this year’s edition of the Poetry Night which will take place in Krakow on Friday evening (the 6th of September) and will continue into early Saturday (the 7th of September). Outstanding authors will square off against one another during attractive poetry meetings. […]