programming board

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 – Piotr Mucharski (Tygodnik Powszechny) - deputy editor of “Tygodnik Powszechny” (a weekly). Author of the TV programmes "Rozmowy na koniec wieku” (“Conversations at the end of an era”), “Rozmowy na nowy wiek” (“Conversations for a new era”), “Rozmowy na czasie”(“Current conversations”), scripts of which have also been published in book form. Winner of the Wiktor prize for best TV programme and the Dariusz Fikas prize given by the “Rzeczpospolita” newspaper for truth and independence in the media. He has recently had his books “Innego końca świata nie będzie. Rozmowy z Barbarą Skargą” (“There will be no other end of the world. Conversations with Barbara Skarga”) and ” Próbka reprezentatywna” (“Representative sample”), which he co-authored with Katarzyna Jankowska.