Miłosz Festival

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Friday, 11.05.2018

A workshop on Spoken History with ...

More info Two days of work on collecting stories that like to escape along with their characters, featuring instructions regarding looking for topics, listening to people, asking questions and not disturbing ...

Friday, 11.05.2018

Miłosz Festival is looking for ...

More info The 7th Miłosz Festival to begin soon! Meetings with authors, poems reading, discussions and debates – on 7-10 June Krakow, for the seventh time, will become the world capital of poetr ...

Tuesday, 10.04.2018

Ring the Alarm: OFF Miłosz is ...

More info For the third time, Miłosz Festival will be accompanied by OFF Miłosz, which is dedicated to independent and experimental poetic works. So what can fans expect this year? Wait no more! Direct, ...

Friday, 23.03.2018

"A Year of the Hunter" – we ...

More info Meetings with authors, poems reading, discussions and debates – on 7-10 June Krakow, for the seventh time, will become the world capital of poetry. Miłosz Festival 2018 will be an opportunity ...

Monday, 12.06.2017

”I assure you, writing makes ...

More info ”It would be good if poetry books were discussed not only on the award-giving occasions” – said Marcin Sendecki, the winner of the Wisława Szymborska Award, on the last day of the Festival. Because ...

Monday, 12.06.2017

Kalinowski’s Kościsko with the ...

More info The comic strip Kościsko created by Karol ”KaeRel” Kalinowski (Kultura Gniewu) is the winner of the Ferdinand the Magnificent Award for the Best Children’s Book 2016. The Readers’ ...

Sunday, 11.06.2017

All that could once be found in ...

More info ”A good book may be based on that you don’t know what it is about. A bad book may be based on that you don’t know what it is about” – read Marcin Sundecki yesterday in one of his ...

Saturday, 10.06.2017

Don’t tell me if the poem is ...

More info The Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace resounded wit many poetic voices - on the second day of the Milosz Festival our guests shared with the readers the sources of their creative inspirations. Karol ...

Friday, 09.06.2017

When I look inside myself, I see ...

More info Why writing about worn shoes of your son? Is menopause the right theme for a poem? Can you see universal truths looking at yourself? This is what the guests of the first day of the Milosz Festival ...

Thursday, 08.06.2017

Adam Zagajewski with the Princess ...

More info A prominent poet, many times candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a member of the Krakow UNESCO City of Literature Honorary Council and of the Miłosz Festival Honorary Committee, will ...

Thursday, 08.06.2017

Miłosz Festival – begin with ...

More info “Lanugage is our engine. There is no other way to think and explore reality than through language“, said Anthony Miłosz, the son of the Nobel-Prize winner, at yesterday’s opening of ...

Tuesday, 06.06.2017

Let’s read poetry with the ...

More info It’s time for the great festival premiere! In cooperation with publishing houses: a5, Instytut Mikołowski , Lokator Media, Wydawnictwo Literackie and Znak , Polish translations of works ...

Monday, 05.06.2017

4th Translators Congress

More info From 9 to 11 June the ICE Kraków Congress Centre will host the 4th World Congress of Translators of Polish Literature.The event organised by the Book Institute is first of all a feast of translators who are the ...

Friday, 02.06.2017

Krakow Book Fair – poetry in the ...

More info In a few days (on the weekend from 10 to11 June) a book fair will be held on the picturesque Św. Marii Magdaleny Square. During the Miłosz Festival a dozen or so antique book sellers and ...

Thursday, 01.06.2017

The 5th edition of Wisława ...

More info At today’s press conference (26 April 2017), the Wisława Szymborska Foundation revealed the nominees for the 5th edition of the Wisława Szymborska Award. The Jury consisting of: Andrei ...

Wednesday, 31.05.2017

OFF Miłosz – crossing the ...

More info We cross the borders for the second time! Like last year, this year’s Milosz Festival is accompanied by the dynamically developing stream OFF Miłosz. It is a platform for expression for ...

Tuesday, 30.05.2017

The youngest participants in the ...

More info It’s become already tradition. This year’s Miłosz Festival once again will go in parallel with the Festival of Children’s Literature. We will read, learn the secrets of typography, listen ...

Wednesday, 24.05.2017

Music at the Miłosz Festival

More info This year’s Miłosz Festival features two musical premieres. On the first day (8 June, 9pm) come to the Festival Centre at the courtyard of the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace for a concert by Julia and ...

Friday, 19.05.2017

A premiere of “After Exile” – ...

More info On the second day of the Miłosz Festival (9 June), join us at Nowy Theatre for a premiere of “After Exile” – a performance based on motifs from Miłosz’s poetry, written and directed ...

Thursday, 18.05.2017

Join us for poetry translation ...

More info On 9 and 10 June, join us for poetry translation workshops. We will discuss works by some of the guests of this year’s Miłosz Festival, and participants can work on polishing their translation ...

Thursday, 18.05.2017

BREAKING NEWS: Here is the ...

More info Nearly sixty guests, more than fifty meetings and plenty of accompanying events on the programme! For the sixth time already Krakow has attracted the most outstanding poets from Poland and ...

Monday, 15.05.2017

A walk with Miłosz. Judyta ...

More info Until the end of this year, if you visit one of the ten branches of the Krakow Library (in Powroźnicza Street, Aleja Pokoju , Radzikowskiego, Opolska, Królewska, Fałata and Łużycka Streets, ...

Sunday, 14.05.2017

Miłosz Festival looking for ...

More info The 6th Miłosz Festival to begin soon! Four Festival days are ahead of us. They will abound with meet-the-author sessions, debates, concerts, reading sessions and commenting poetry. Early ...

Thursday, 20.04.2017

Bloggers and critics – get down ...

More info How to write about high culture on the web? How to move about freely among translations and ambitious literature? And finally, how to present attractively not just popular literature but poetry ...

Tuesday, 21.03.2017

“Beginning with my streets” - ...

More info Four festival days filled with meetings with authors, debuts, and concerts, as well as reading and commenting poetry. On the 8th – 11th of June this year, Krakow is once again slated to become ...

Wednesday, 08.03.2017

The guest of the 5. Miłosz ...

More info Breyten Breytenbach – one of the most appreciated authors writing in Afrikaans and a guest of the 5th edition of the Miłosz Festival, which took place last year – was chosen a laureate ...

Thursday, 04.08.2016

Intensity. The Conrad Festival for ...

More info Richard Flanagan – author of the cult Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish, Michael Cunningham – famous for the Pulitzer-winning The Hours, which was also adapted into a film, Eleanor ...

Thursday, 16.06.2016

Which door do we use to get out of ...

More info The 5th Miłosz Festival has come to an end As Michael Ondaatje said, “from more or less halfway point of the book, the writer starts thinking about how to untangle the story”, and quite ...

Monday, 13.06.2016

In poetry, you cannot do anything ...

More info “I just cannot see my poetry being read in villas with any pools, I simply can’t”, says Szymborska in Napisane życie / Written Life about how she imagines the readers of her works, and ...

Sunday, 12.06.2016

In the poets’ footsteps

More info Stefan Hertmans walks around like a teacher, talking about Carpaccio’s painting, Adonis emanates calmness, and when Kuba Kornhauser received the statuette during the Wisława Szymborska Award Gala, he turned ...

Saturday, 11.06.2016

Poets take the world’s ...

More info Staring in the darkness at the film portrait of Ryszard Krynicki, we collected our reflections after another dose of festival experiences. The poet himself says that he is a peripatetic – ...

Friday, 10.06.2016

Poetry that connects worlds and ...

More info The Józef Czapski Pavilion, a beautiful day, clear air and a delicate murmur caused by discussions in the café. Ashur Etwebi slowly sips coffee at the table, looking around discreetly. The ...

Wednesday, 08.06.2016

Meetings with poets during the ...

More info Lectures, concerts and workshops – the Miłosz Festival allows us to taste the language of poetry in many dimensions; however, it is the direct contact between the reader and the creator, ...

Friday, 03.06.2016

A city where poetry never sleeps

More info The 6th edition of Poetry Night, titled “Krakow in Poetry: City, Mass, Machine” will take place again as part of the Krakow Nights cycle and this year it will last for almost a whole day. Lovers ...

Tuesday, 31.05.2016

Première books of poetry and the ...

More info Starting on June 9, Milosz Festival will allow discovering unknown territories of poetry, as well as the poetry of foreign visitors of the event. And the pleasure will be not only on its participants' ...

Tuesday, 24.05.2016

Vagabonds, migrants, poets. ...

More info The praise of travel, life and movement, but also the dilemma of emigration and the drama of escape. These great themes of modernity are close to artists all over the world. From 9 to 12 June, ...

Friday, 20.05.2016

Debates during the 5th Miłosz ...

More info The debates of the Miłosz Festival, inspired by the wealth and universality of the Nobelist’s work, are the core of the celebration of poetry. This year, three such events await participants ...

Tuesday, 17.05.2016

Soyka & Cracow Singers. Shakespeare ...

More info Soyka & Cracow Singers. Shakespeare a cappella. 400 years of William Shakespeare’s legacy – Polish interpretations   ​Stanisław Soyka Cracow Singers | vocal ensemble Concept ...

Thursday, 12.05.2016

Jazz and poetry. Musical ...

More info Jazz experiments and innovative interpretation of classics – the meeting of poetry and music is one of the Miłosz Festival hallmarks. In June, on the eve of the event, we will discover the ...

Thursday, 05.05.2016

3rd edition of the Children ...

More info The Children Literature Festival is the largest European event, devoted solely to the literature for the youngest readers. 2016 will see the 3rd edition of the event. The Festival will once ...

Thursday, 28.04.2016

Zuzanna Ginczanka. Only happiness ...

More info Appreciated by the poets of Skamander and Witold Gombrowicz, loved by the Warsaw bohemians for her talent, incredible personality and beauty. The poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka (Zuzanna Polina ...

Friday, 22.04.2016

Napisane życie [Written Life] – ...

More info Wisława Szymborska wrote a couplet about Czesław Miłosz, and when Miłosz learned that Szymborska had been awarded the Nobel Prize, he said with satisfaction: 'Wasn't I right?' During the ...

Friday, 01.04.2016

The 5th Miłosz Festival – ...

More info Soon, Krakow will once again be the place for an exceptional meeting with poetry. The 5th edition of the Miłosz Festival will take place from the 9th to the 12th of June, gathering the most ...

Friday, 18.03.2016

Miłosz Festival at the Silesius ...

More info From 8th till 15th May 2016, the Silesius International Poetry Festival will be held in Wrocław as a part of the literary programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 and the ...

Wednesday, 09.12.2015

Join us for the 5th International ...

More info The festival will be held between 9 and 12 June 2016 in Kraków. Join us for meetings with poetry! The Miłosz Festival is Poland's most important poetry salon, evolved from the traditions ...

Friday, 10.07.2015

The Krakow City Council Says ...

More info We have good news for all in the world of Polish literature! The Krakow City Council has ratified the Conrad Award city resolution and has decreed the formulation of a grant programme supporting ...

Tuesday, 02.06.2015

Poetry without borders

More info The last day of the Miłosz Festival began with a poetic May picnic in one of the most beautiful gardens of Krakow, at the Józef Mehoffer House – and ended with a journey with a finger over a map, or rather, over ...

Monday, 18.05.2015

Who is a poet? A translator, a ...

More info During the third day of the festival, poets confessed to imaginary arguments, smuggling, and the fact that in principle, they use words in order to give space some breathing room. The third ...

Saturday, 16.05.2015

Inspiring differences, or how poets ...

More info The second day of the Miłosz Festival was abundant in what poetry lovers like the most – direct meetings with poets, who have spoken about their creativity in prose. “My works are a game ...

Saturday, 16.05.2015

Poetry today – a black box or a ...

More info The great celebration of poetry in Krakow has begun – the fourth edition of the Miłosz Festival is off and running. This year, dozens of Polish and foreign creators, along with readers, ...

Friday, 15.05.2015

Within the realm of jazz, beauty ...

More info Simic, Lundquist, Sośnicki, Nowakowska, Krynicki – we disclose the names of further guests of the 4th Miłosz Festival   Charles Simic, Marie Lundquist (for the first time in ...

Friday, 15.05.2015

The Czesław Miłosz Poetry ...

More info Lectures, kinetic poetry, workshops and more festival guests: Xavier Farré, Marta Podgórnik, Krzysztof Siwczyk, Dariusz Suska The Miłosz Festival is an excellent occasion and at the same ...

Friday, 15.05.2015

Luminous things and farewells

More info Two poetry evenings during the Miłosz Festival will be particularly unusual and filled with metaphysics. The first one – Księga olśnień [The book of luminous things] – will take place on Thursday. ...

Tuesday, 05.05.2015

The May festival of poetry in ...

More info The Miłosz Festival is a sacred time of encounters with poetry. The diversity of proposals is guaranteed by the division of the program into separate blocks – meetings with guests, debates, ...

Friday, 24.04.2015

In the shadow of Miłosz / After ...

More info The City of Literature Foundation and the Krakow Festival Office in co-operation with the Krakow Literature Foundation and the Chair of Contemporary Critique of the Faculty of Polish Studies ...

Friday, 24.04.2015

Haiku – the shortest poetry of ...

More info The Miłosz Festival is not only a poetic trip inspired by A Book of Luminous Things, but also lectures and discussions devoted to haiku – the Far Eastern poetry genre that was close to Miłosz's ...

Friday, 24.04.2015

The poetry that you can listen to ...

More info The 4th edition of the Miłosz Festival will include not only poetic peregrinations, but also a rich program of music events and a film screening. Outstanding poets Miron Białoszewski and ...

Friday, 17.04.2015

Become a volunteer at the Milosz ...

More info The biggest festival of poetry in Poland – the Miłosz Festival – will kick off soon! You want to get to know world-famous poets like Charles Simic or Ruth Padel? You want to see how ...

Wednesday, 08.04.2015

The literary larder of the 4th ...

More info During the Festival in 2013, eight collections of the Festival guests’ poems, previously unpublished in Poland, were presented – among others the collected works of Wiera Burłak, Duo Duo, ...

Tuesday, 07.04.2015

Literature at every age – events ...

More info The Miłosz Festival and the Festival of Literature of Children invite you to a cycle of events for the youngest readers. From the 14th till the 16th of May in Krakow, children and their parents ...