The latest issue of Magnes magazine, the weekly supplement to Dziennik Polski, features a recapitulation of the last year - TOPS and FAILS 2011. The list includes as many as 9 Krakow festivals. Thank you!

 “A smart, innovative, creative, charming and surprising city; a tourist market leader – this is the Krakow we showed to the world during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. And this is how it was also seen by foreign guests,” reads today’s Gazeta Wyborcza.

“My book is not about Rumkowski’s having molested children. It is rather about how he ruled and how ordinary people lived under his rule. It’s also about how power, even an apparent one, in ghetto conditions marked by unbelievable oppression, gives a sense of strength and privilege, and ultimately corrupts,” said Steve Sem-Sandberg, Swedish writer and guest at this year’s edition of the Conrad Festival in a touching interview with Paweł Smoleńsk for Gazeta Wyborcza. Steve Sem-Sandberg’s novel The Emperor of Lies: A Novel was published in Poland by Wydawnictwo Literackie.

May 2012 will see the second edition of the literary workshops entitled Black prose-writing workshops, organised by the Czarne Publishing House. This is great news for lovers of Andrzej Stasiuk’s works – Stasiuk himself will be one of the teachers!

"Small wonder the city is applying for status as a Unesco City of Literature. Krakow hosts the Milosz Festival in May (milosz365.eu), and the Conrad Festival in November (conradfestival.pl/en). Milosz is one of the city's two Nobel prize winners for literature, whereas Joseph Conrad spent his childhood years in the city.," says James Hopkin in the pages of the Friday issue of the prestigious British daily The Guardian.