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This coming Tuesday (the 20th of August) at 8 p.m., we would like to invite you to the Literki music club (ul. Berka Joselewicza 21) to the first in the series of screenings of Widok Krakowa (A View of Krakow) directed by Magdalena Piekorz! The film features Adam Zagajewski as the host taking the viewers […]

We once again encourage: let’s take books to the streets, let’s all change the fact that books are associated with libraries only. The second edition of a competition for artists, accompanying the Conrad Festival, is being launched under the theme of Book – the Perfect Medium. We are waiting for designs of original installations inspired […]

The Free Reading Zone is waiting for submissions of places for its literary guide to Malopolska. “Strefa Wolnego Czytania (Free Reading Zone) is for those who have selected reading and focus on literature: readers, publishers, and animators of culture. For all those who show others how to live and breathe books in a city that […]

Lady Gaga opened a reading marathon of a famous sci-fi novel, Solaris, written by a Polish writer – Stanisław Lem. The marathon was organized by the Marina Abramovic Institute, which was founded by an artist and performer who has recently starred in a mini-documentary Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film. A group reading of the […]

On Tuesday (the 13th of August) a campaign entitled KsięgoZbiór [Book Collection] will be held in Krakow for the first time. We would like to invite all book lovers to join us in the Jordan Park at 6 p.m. In order to participate in KsięgoZbiór, simply come with a book you are currently reading. The […]

The Nowa Huta Public Library in Krakow bought out a licence to use the ibuk.pl service for another year, i.e. until the 4th of July 2014. This modern form of using full-text versions of books online is enjoying a growing popularity. The library invites readers to use the online reading room free of charge not […]

On Wednesday, the 7th of August, the ‘Flying Reading Room’ campaign will be launched. Every sunny Wednesday in August, a cargo bike with the campaign’s logo, offering lots of interesting books, will appear on the Vistula Boulevards between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. Anyone may take a book from the Flying Reading Room, and after reading it, […]

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 […]