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From the 1st of August, every person who visits the Czuły Barbarzyńca bookshop-cum-café in Krakow (at ul. Powiśle 11) and purchases items for a of minimum PLN 50 will receive an extraordinary gift – a DVD with Widok Krakowa [A View of Krakow], a film directed by Magdalena Piekorz and featuring one of the most […]

Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza [The Villa Decius Association] would like to invite you another edition of Ogrody Twórczości 2013 [Gardens of Creativity] this Sunday, the 4th of August at 5 p.m. This time, within the interiors of Willa Decjusza, the Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Theatre from Zakopane will present Katarzyna Pietrzyk’s recital based on Wisława Szymborska’s …Świat, […]

Writing poems somewhat resembles making tea. These two first lines are like brew to which water must be added: there are more images, crystallized thoughts in them. And they all revolve around what was in the beginning. But water must be boiling hot ‒ Adam Zagajewski says in Milena Rachid Chehab’s interview published in the […]

From tomorrow (the 19th of July) in the Czuły Barbarzyńca bookshop-cum-café in Krakow (ul. Powiśle 11) there will be a wealth of attractions for fans of good literature. We invite you to the Summer Book Fair combined with unusual literary meetings, film screenings, competitions with attractive prizes and sports tournaments. The Fair will last one […]

This is great news for all inhabitants, readers and lovers of literary Krakow. After months of work, the www.miastoliteratury.pl interactive multimedia portal Krakow City of Literature is up and running; its aim is to present its colourful history, numerous institutions and festivals as well as daily literary events. The portal is modelled on similar websites […]

On the 13th of July (Saturday) at 8 p.m. Polvision showed the film Widok Krakowa [A View of Krakow] directed by Magdalena Piekorz! The film features Adam Zagajewski as the host taking the viewers around “his” Krakow. As you may remember, the Krakow Festival Office is the producer of the Polish episode of the City(W)rites […]

We can boldly say that the Virtual Library of Publishers has conquered our mobile devices! Within only two weeks from the start of the literary vacation campaign, readers have downloaded almost 2,500 e-books! And this is not the end! If you have not yet taken advantage of our proposal to spend summer with a book […]

On the 18th of July (Thursday) Wydawnictwo Czarne plans to publish an anthology of new Russian poetry entitled Wdrapałem się na piedestał [I Have Climbed the Pedestal] with translations by Jerzy Czech – an outstanding translator and populariser of Russian literature. It is a colourful kaleidoscope of different poetic styles, where regular verses occur rebelliously […]

This summer the Krakow libraries have prepared a whole gamut of experiences and attractions for their readers (particularly the youngest ones)! There will be games, workshops, visual arts activities and mutual reading of books, excursions to the Zoological Garden and the Botanical Garden, putting a jigsaw puzzle together and a trip to the island of […]

Claudio Magris, a Trieste-born essayist, prose writer, traveller and chronicler of the spiritual history of Central Europe; Anna Applebaum, an American writer and journalist, who portrays the historical image of Eastern Europe; Szczepan Twardoch, a prose writer from Pilchowice, who quarrels not only with the world, but also with his own world-view; and Ireneusz Kania, […]

Where did Jan Sztaudynger spend his holiday as a little boy? Why do the inhabitants of Krzeszowice know very well what happens in Sorrento? Where does one of Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘impossible monuments’ stand? Who used to visit Goszyce during the war? You can ask dozens of literary questions in Malopolska. Learn new trails and sensational […]

How to avoid boredom during summer holidays? Read! In cafes, in trams, and even on the streets. For the first time in history almost twenty of the largest Krakow publishing houses have joined forces to present the best books of this summer to readers and, at the same time, to promote reading via modern technologies. […]