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The Perfect Medium – this is the motto of this year’s Conrad Festival, which starts on the 21st of October and lasts for one week (until the 27th of October). As every year, the Festival’s audience can expect: meetings from morning till evening, reading lessons, exhibitions, film session, free-of-charge book exchanges and, above all, more […]

The first cold and unpleasant autumn evenings have come. It is high time to figure out how to make them a little bit warmer. Our proposal: let’s read. If you do not have an idea about what book to read – we would like to invite you to another edition of our campaign The Second […]

A backstage hero: a creator or a craftsman? This is the title of a discussion panel which will be held on the 30th of September at 7 p.m. in Goethe Institute in Krakow on International Translation Day 2013. Translation has become an increasingly popular discussion topic. The number of translations on the Polish book market […]

Inspired by its American counterpart, the Banned Books Week will take place between the 22nd and the 28th of September. The Banned Books Week is a campaign intended to encourage reading “in spite.” The focus is on the books that function in the world of literature as sparking sexual, political, or moral controversy; books that […]

Thursday, 26 September 2013, 6.30 p.m. On history and more: a meeting with Agnieszka Podpora, translator of Sara Shilo’s No Dwarves are Coming. It was six years ago that Mas’ud Dadon, known in the town as the king of falafel, was stung by a bee, fell into a puddle of oil and died, and the […]

Registration for the third edition of Rymoliryktando – a national performer spelling competition prepared by valued songwriter, Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski – has been launched. Everyone who registers online at: www.rymoliryktando.pl by the 22nd of October will be able to face this arch-difficult dictation material. This year, the event will take place on the 26th of […]

Olga Tokarczuk is this year’s winner of Vilenica prize which has been awarded since 1986 by Slovene Writers’ Association to authors from Central Europe. The writer has thus joined other Polish Vilenica winners such as Zbigniew Herbert (1991), Adam Zagajewski (1996) and Andrzej Stasiuk (2008). Other Vilenica recipients include, among others, Tomas Venclova, Milan Kundera, […]

“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 […]