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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 Nieprzyjemni where the ensemble performs pieces from their album “Wojaczek”. The festival closes with a concert by Pablopavo and Ludziki […]

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 by Tomasz Cyz and with music by Paweł Mykietyn. We will see Iwona Budner, Aldona Grochal, Natalia Hodurek, Paulina Puślednik, Wojciech Skibiński, […]

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 and interpreting skills. The workshops will be led by expert translators Agata Hołobut (English), Justyna Czechowska (Swedish) and Franciszek Nastulczyk (Czech). Admission […]

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 abroad, translators of literature and lovers of poetry to celebrate the Miłosz Festival from 8 to 11 June. This year the Festival is devoted to […]

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, and Tysiąclecia, Kościuszkowskie and Zgody Housing Estates), you will see large-format photographs of Czesław Miłosz. Unique portraits of the Nobel Prize winning poets on […]

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 in June (8–11 June) Krakow will be the world capital of poetry. The Miłosz Festival will offer the opportunity to meet many pre-eminent Polish writers. including Adam […]

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 and essay? This is not going to be the knowledge available only to the initiated. The Miłosz Festival invites you for free, two-day workshops […]

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 the world’s capital of poetry, providing an opportunity to meet the most prominent Polish artists, including Adam Zagajewski, Ewa Lipska, Anna […]

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 of the 5th Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2017, one of the most important distinctions in the world of global literature and […]