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Are you a novice writer or translator? Do you want to develop your skills and establish international contacts? We look forward to receiving your application by the 3rd of November! The CELA project is launching! If you are a novice writer or translator, this call for applications is for you! The next edition of the […]

The Mayor of the City of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski made a decision to establish the PRIMEVAL FOREST in Nowa Huta’s Kujawy neighbourhood in connection with Olga Tokarczuk winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in order to celebrate and commemorate the writer’s achievement by Krakow – UNESCO City of Literature. Join us on 29th October at […]

10 October 2019 will go down in the history of Polish literature. Olga Tokarczuk received one of the two Nobel Prizes in Literature awarded today by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Olga Tokarczuk has long been listed among the candidates for the Nobel Foundation prize, alongside writers such as Margaret Atwood, Maryse Condé and Haruki […]

Krakow and Québec City – UNESCO Cities of Literature are joining forces and opening up to literary exchange of experiences. On November this year, our city will be visited by Canadian writer Philippe Girard. In the meantime, Krakow-based author Aleksandra Zielińska, known to a broader audience for her novel Sorge, published this year under the […]

Since the beginning of September, Villa Decius hosts two new residents, which came to Krakow as part of the Krakow – UNESCO City of Literature Residency Programme. The artists from New Zealand and Australia will spend two months in the City of Kings. Melbourne-born Nadia Bailey is a writer, journalist and critic,  whose texts were […]

The last two weeks of August will be marked by a creative residency of Claire Prentice – Edinburgh-based writer and journalist – at Villa Decius. Prentice has been working as a journalist for two decades, collaborating with various media, including the BBC, NPR, The Times of London, The Guardian and The Washington Post. She wrote […]

Kraków UNESCO City of Literature is delighted to announce an international residency opportunity for 2019 for a writer from Edinburgh! The selected writer will be invited to spend two weeks in Kraków, to develop their own creative practice in the beautiful surroundings of a Polish Renaissance palace. They will be invited to present the work […]

Things, ideas, places and characters are just some of the topics that will be discussed by the guests of the 11th Conrad Festival! From 21st to 27th October, Krakow will host, among others, Almudena Grandes, author of some of the most recognisable and most frequently translated works of contemporary Spanish literature in the world, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer, author of the famous book Americanah and Dmitry […]

A meeting of all UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature is slated to take place from the 20th to the 25th of May, and during this event, the most important plans and challenges for the next year will be discussed. As many as 46 delegates from 28 cities will participate in workshops and discussions to establish […]

This year Kraków will host four exceptional writers. Today we have welcomed Georgina Wilding from Nottingham, Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry Festival, the Founding Editor of Mud Press and Nottingham’s first young poet laureate. She has performed her poetry both nationally and internationally, and writes to commission for organisations such as BBC Radio Nottingham and the Royal […]

Between the 6th and 9th of June, the Miłosz Festival will host exceptional poets from Poland and abroad. This year’s festival centre, the Helena Modrzejewska National Old Theatre, festival bookshops, cafés and clubs, where poetry will be the most important on these days – the poetic polyphony of our guests will be present in all […]

The Miłosz Festival, the 8th edition of which will explore The Seizure of Power will once again make some room in the city space for experimental poetry. Stage, microphone, movement and voice, and above all, a sense of disagreement with the existing reality — all of these features will characterise this year’s OFF Stream at the Miłosz […]