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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. […]

Seven books have qualified for the finals of the eighth edition of the Angelus Central European Literature Award. Apart from Polish novels, books by Austrian, Russian ad Ukrainian authors will compete for the award. The winner will be announced on the 19th of October. The finalists have been selected out of 41 books which qualified […]

On Friday (the 6th of September), we would like to invite you to the Bona café and bookstore at ul. Kanonicza 11 for a special screening of the film Widok Krakowa [A View of Krakow] directed by Magdalena Piekorz. The screening will start at 6.30 p.m. Entrance is free of charge! We would like to […]

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

After Warsaw and Łódź, it is high time for Krakow. This is where, on the 26th of October, the third edition of Rymoliryktando, that is a national spelling competition originated by one of the most valued contemporary lyricists of the young generation, Łukasz L.U.C Rostkowski, will take place. Where will the spelling competition be held? […]

Wydawnictwo Literackie and the Noir Sur Blanc publishing house are very sorry to inform that early in the morning of the 15th of August, Sławomir Mrożek died in Nice at the age of 83. He was a writer of world renown, an intellectual, an authority, and an important figure to many generations of Poles. Sławomir […]