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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 […]

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 Catton – the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize in history, and Géza Röhrig – a prominent writer and actor, known […]

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 frankly we are also wondering about that, since it is hard to return to everyday life after such a festival. We […]

“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 the audience gathered at the screening bursts in laughter. “When my readers buy my work, they check how much money they […]

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 it in his hands several times, like he was carrying a crystal ball showing him the future. Take a closer look at the poets, as a […]

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 – in order to write, he much travel, and the film is about the path he has travelled. The day passed under the sign of […]

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 atmosphere of celebration can be felt in the air, even though it is still unclear what is going to happen. What was the course […]

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, that is the domain of the festival in Krakow. The meetings range from small and intimate to grand scale ones – this year the […]

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 of poetry will have many attractions to take advantage of in various parts of the city: poetic meetings, workshops, […]