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 The Festival Artistic Director is prof. Michał Paweł Markowski (UJ) - literary critic, essayist, columnist, Jagiellonian University professor, Head of the Department of International Polish Studies, Director of Arts Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Lecturer at Harvard and Northwestern Universities between 2002-2004. Author of many books on philosophy and literature, such as: Anatomia ciekawości (The Anatomy of Curiosity), Występek. Eseje o pisaniu i czytaniu (Misdeed. Essays on writing and reading), Czarny nurt. Gombrowicz, świat, literatura (Black current. Gombrowicz, the world, literature), Nieobliczalne (Unpredictable), Polska literatura nowoczesna. Leśmian, Schulz, Witkacy (Polish modern literature. Leśman, Schulz, Witkacy). Winner of the Kościeliski Award and the Aleksander Brückner Award. He has translated the works of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derridy, Julia Kristeva, Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Richard Rorty, Marcel Proust. For three years he presented programs on literature on public television.
 Programme Director is Piotr Mucharski (Tygodnik Powszechny) – Editor in Chief at Tygodnik Powszechny, producer of TV programmes Rozmowy na koniec wieku, Rozmowy na nowy wiek, Rozmowy na czasie, records of which were also published in book form. A winner of the Wiktor Award for the Best TV show and the Dariusz Fikus Award, awarded by Rzeczpospolita for truth and independence in media. Recently published books he has co-authored along with Katarzyna Janowska include Innego końca świata nie będzie. Rozmowy z Barbarą Skargą (There will not be another end of the world. Talks with Barbara Skarga) and Próba reprezentatywna (Representative Sample).
 The Executive Director is Grzegorz Jankowicz (Tygodnik Powszechny, Korporacja Ha!art) – critic, philologist, essayist, editor and translator. He works with the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Jankowicz has translated into Polish the work of such authors as R. Firbank, G. Perec, R. Rorty and S. Žižek. A co-host of TV shows broadcast by TV Kultura, including Czytelnia oraz Poezjem. He was an editor of the critical literary series Punkt Krytyczny and the Studium magazine. He has taught, among other things, Polish literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. Jankowicz collaborates with the Korporacja Ha! Art Foundation as Deputy President and Editor of two publishing series: Linia krytyczna and Proza obca. A jury member for the SILESIUS Wrocław Poetry Award. Editor of Tygodnik Powszechny’s cultural section.
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