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The coming 8th Miłosz Festival will host the most outstanding poets from around the world and, as always, will accurately refer with its title to the work of its eminent patron. Between June 6 and 9 Krakow will again become the centre of what is considered new and exciting in contemporary poetry. The Seizure of […]

The Miłosz Festival would like to invite you to poetry translation workshops. The workshops will be devoted to discussions dedicated to the subject of poetic works by selected guests of this year’s edition of the Miłosz Festival, as well as improving translation and interpretation skills of workshop participants. The workshops are conducted by experts with extensive […]

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 them in telling their stories. At an accelerated pace, we will move from selecting the protagonist to the final version of the story. Workshops for those […]

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 poetry. Miłosz Festival 2018 will be an opportunity to meet prominent Polish authors, such as Marek Krystian Emanuel Baczewski, Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar, Marcin Baran and […]

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, engaging and inspiring; OFF Miłosz is about the cutting-edge generation. We cross boundaries between the creator and the audience, inviting both to interact, […]

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 to meet prominent Polish authors, such as Marek Krystian Emanuel Baczewski, Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar, Marcin Baran and Urszula Kozioł, as well as foreign guests, […]

”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 […]

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’ Award goes to Barbara Caillot-Dubus and Aleksandra Karkowska for their book Na Giewont się patrzy (Oficyna Wydawnicza Oryginały). Kościsko, is an involving comic strip, which frightens where it should […]

”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 poems. The jury of the Wisława Szymborska Award considered his recent book W the best poetry […]