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Poetry is travel and is in travel, and yesterday’s evening became a time of rest for it. The guests who visited Ryszard Krynicki’s birthday evening – outstanding poets representing various generations and various poetic styles, including: Marcin Baran, Wojciech Bonowicz, Jerzy Kronhold, Ryszard Krynicki, Ewa Lipska, Bronisław Maj, Leszek Aleksander Moczulski, Marcin Sendecki, Krzysztof Siwczyk, […]

To celebrate Wisława Szymborska’s 90th anniversary of her birth, which is this Tuesday (the 2nd of July), the Wisława Szymborska Foundation has organised competition entitled Wolę kino [I Prefer Cinema] for a short film about her poetry. A jury, which included: Michał Rusinek, Tadeusz Sobolewski and Maciej Starczewski chose a winner and nine finalists out […]

The second day of Ryszard Krynicki’s jubilee began with a meeting with people who usually stay invisible, but without whom the author is invisible (in foreign countries). Participants of the meeting hosted by Magda Heydel included translators of Ryszard Krynicki’s poetry into foreign languages: Italian (Francesca Fornari), English (Clare Cavanagh), German (Renate Schmidgall), Russian (Anatol […]

Marcin Baran opened RK’70 with a statement that outstanding poets – and Ryszard Krynicki is, without doubt, one of them – should be lauded. Readers do it constantly by reading his works, and the three-day jubilee organised in Krakow is an emanation of this, allowing us to meet the poet in his many incarnations. RK’70 […]

Since yesterday, Krakow has been celebrating the Ryszard Krynicki Jubilee. On this extraordinary occasion, we have a premiere for you: a video of an interview with the poet by Malwina Mus and Jarosław Fazan. The Writers in Motion audiovisual library of writers is a long-term project carried out by the Krakow Festival Office in cooperation […]

On the 28th of June Ryszard Krynicki turns 70. On this occasion, an official celebration of his jubilee – RK’70 – will take place in Krakow. The program of the events that start on the 26th of June will include, among others: an academic session, discussion panels, a concert of Pablopavo i Ludziki combined with […]