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To celebrate the opening of the 1st Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival in Krakow The Town Hall Tower in the Main Market Square has turned into an illuminated lighthouse. The Tower will radiate light for the six consecutive days of the Festival to mark the unfolding great festival of literature.

– The lighthouse, which can easily be associated with the works of Joseph Conrad, is the main motif of the Festival posters’ layout; it appears also in the Festival logo – explains Magdalena Sroka, Director of the Krakow Festival Office, which, together with the Municipality of Krakow and the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation, organises the Festival. – We hope that the light from the Town Hall Tower, visible from the distance of ten kilometers and radiating into the four quarters of the globe, will signal all the more clearly to all the citizens of Krakow that something significant is happening in the city, that a great festival of literature is unfolding. We plan to recreate this idea every year, to accompany the future editions of the Festival.

Over the six Festival days Krakow will welcome distinguished authors from abroad (such as Pascal Quignard, Etgar Keret and Per Olov Enquist among others) as well as a select group of renowned Polish writers such as Olga Tokarczuk, Marek Bieńczyk, Stefan Chwin, Andrzej Stasiuk, Jerzy Pilch, Jacek Dukaj and Polish top journalists: Wojciech Jagielski, Mariusz Szczygieł and others.

The Festival will be inaugurated on Monday (2nd November) with two events. First, the film Tous les matins du monde will be shown in Kino pod Baranami (Pod Baranami Cinema) at 6:30 pm. The film will be followed by a special concert by Jordi Savall, also entitled Tous les matins du monde and dedicated to Pascal Quignard (St. Katherine’s Church, 9 pm).

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