Conrad Festival
conrad festival annual literary festival held kraków since organised tygodnik powszechny foundation kraków festival office supported kraków municipal government poland ministry culture national heritage largest literary festival central europe named polishbritish novelist joseph conrad festival host artist around world representative various culture worldviews create literature also film theatre music visual art year accompanies kraków book fair unlike polish event deal mostly polish literature conrad festival intended festival international level many illustrious guest included recipient nobel prize literature herta müller orhan pamuk marjane satrapi amos oz rabih alameddine claude lanzmann yurii andrukhovych david grossman paul auster lászló krasznahorkai alberto manguel boris akunin alain mabanckou dubravka ugrešić magdalena tulli andrzej stasiuk jerzy pilch olga tokarczuk festival artistic director michał paweł markowski literary critic publicist professor jagiellonian university university illinois chicago programme director grzegorz jankowicz tygodnik powszechny announced markowski jankowicz would replaced urszula chwalba olga drenda respectively concept conrad festival based two principle day festival devoted separate phenomenon related literature culmination day meeting foreign writer well many related event starting seventh edition conrad festival conrad award whose monetary worth zloty given prize awarded debut book published previous year poland upandcoming writer city kraków main sponsor award partnership book institute tygodnik powszechny foundation kraków festival office nomination award put forward reader publishing house official website conrad festival antonia lloydjones november krakow story unesco city literature built book guardian