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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 discussed yesterday. ”Beginning with My Streets” is the motto of this year’s edition of the Miłosz Festival. The […]

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 receive one the most prestigious literary awards in the country of Don Quixote from the King of Spain. The Princess of Asturias Award (Spanish: Premio Príncipe […]

“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 the Miłosz Festival. The leading motif of this year’s sixth edition is “Beginning with My Streets”. It is the title of a collection of Miłosz’s […]

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 by five our guests from abroad: Linn Hansén, Petr Hruška, Antjie Krog, Robert Pinsky and Joachim Sartorius will be released. The books will be on sale in Bona Bookshop […]

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 best ambassadors of our literature. The congress is a way to thank them for their work, but […]

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 bouquinistes from Krakow and the region will showcase their offer. Classical prose, good comic strips, iconic albums on art, […]

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 Khadanowich (Belarus), Bernhard Hartmann (Germany), Professor William Martin (US), Abel Murcia Soriano (Spain), Professor Marian Stala and Dorota Walczak-Delanois (Belgium), chaired by Joanna Orska, nominated the following […]

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 young , independent artists, who are not afraid of literary experiments, reaching for new, less traditional art forms, like performance poetry. Guests from abroad, […]

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 to involving stories and compare science and literature. At the end of each day – before sunset – we will be listening to men’s reading, with […]