”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 in Poland we have really great poetry. W stands for Warsaw. Or for weaving memories. Or perhaps watching sights. On Saturday evening Marcin Sendecki received one of the most important Polish poetry awards - the Wisława Szymborska Award -- for his volume with the shortest possible title. On Sunday morning he met with readers in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace, a branch of the National Museum in Krakow, this year’s Festival Centre. It was the second meeting with the author. For the first time he talked about W on Saturday, not knowing yet that his volume would be found the best poetry book of last year....
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’ ...
More info ”11A 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
