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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. […]

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 […]