Conrad Festival Kraków 2027
Kraków, Poland · TBA typical Oct (confirm conradfestival.pl) · T2 Strong
The Conrad Festival is an annual literary festival held in Kraków since 2009. It is organised by the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation and the Kraków Festival Office and is supported by the Kraków Municipal Government and Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It is the largest literary festival in Central Europe and was named after Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.
- Language
- Polish
- Genres
- general lit
- Format
- in-person
- Next edition
- TBA typical Oct (confirm conradfestival.pl)
- Author participation
- Programme invitations; public tickets
- Audience
- The festival's artistic director was Michał Paweł Markowski a literary critic, publicist and professor at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Language notes
- Listed working language: Polish
- Genre notes
- Primary focus: general lit
- Programme
- Its programme director was Grzegorz Jankowicz of Tygodnik Powszechny.
- Awards
- Starting with the seventh edition of the Conrad Festival in 2015, the Conrad Award (whose monetary worth is 30,000 zloty) will be given.
- Past editions
- 2009, 2013, 2015, 2024