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One of the most interesting and eagerly awaited events of the 1st Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival in Krakow will be the spectacle entitled Kosmos (Cosmos) by the Gardzienice theatrical group. The spectacle will be the first performance of the famous theatrical marathon of actors of the director and founder, Włodzimierz Staniewski to take place outside their home stage of Ośrodek Praktyk Teatralnych Gardzienice (The Centre of Theatrical Practices Gardzienice).

The 1st Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival in Krakow will be inaugurated with a concert by Jordi Savall whose programme, entitled Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World), will be dedicated to one of the guests of the Festival, Pascal Quignard. The musical performance will be interlaced with fragments of Quignard’s texts interpreted by a renowned Polish actor Krzysztof Globisz. The concert will begin at 9 pm on Monday, 2nd November, in St. Katherine’s Church, Augustiańska Street 7.

Special guests of the first Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival will be such distinguished writers as Pascal Quignard, Per Olov Enquist, Etgar Keret and Atiq Rahimi. Meetings with each of the authors will be held in Krakow. All readers are welcome to attend!

The second Conrad Festival supplement to Tygodnik Powszechny, CONRAD 02, specially prepared for the 1st Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival due to begin on 2nd November 2009 in Krakow is now available.
In this issue, prof. Michał Paweł Markowski, Anna Marchewka, Agnieszka Maciejowska and Grzegorz Jankowicz write about the approaching literary festival.