Mountains of Literature Festival 2026

Name: Mountains of Literature Festival 2026
Start: 2026-07-13T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Miejski Ośrodek Kultury w Nowej Rudzie

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 · 21:00

Municipal Cultural Centre in Nowa Ruda, Poland

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Mountains of Literature Festival 2026 — Municipal Cultural Centre in Nowa Ruda, Nowa Ruda

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Season passes: include all events (literary stage meetings and concerts) taking place at Zamek Sarny on the days covered by the pass. Full-day single tickets: a full-day ticket provides access to all events (literary stage meetings and concerts) taking place on that day at Zamek Sarny.

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Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska
Tomasz Grabowski
Andreas Kossert
Katarzyna Boni
Karolina Kuszlewicz
Didier Fassin
Anne-Claire Defossez
Georgi Gospodinow 19:45
Robert Więckiewicz 21:00
Ralph Kaminski & My Best Band In The World 22:00
Kasia Sienkiewicz 21:30
Maja Ostaszewska
Andrzej Seweryn
Spięty 21:30
Bartek Wąsik 21:00
Żaneta Łabudska
Czesław Mozil

About: Olga Tokarczuk

Nobel laureate and Poland's most internationally celebrated novelist, Tokarczuk has spent three decades building an oeuvre that ranges from mythical family sagas to feminist horror - her books translated into nearly 40 languages and awarded prizes on three continents.

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languages her works have been translated into

5×

Nike Audience Award wins (Poland's top literary prize)

national bestseller in Poland for nearly a year (The Books of Jacob)

What's new

2026-06
Tokarczuk announced her forthcoming novel - set in post-war Lower Silesia and described as her last major work of fiction - is due for publication in autumn 2026.
2026-05
Tokarczuk sparked public debate after remarks at the Impact'26 conference in Poznań about using AI as a research tool; she subsequently clarified that none of her texts were written with AI assistance.
2025-09
Tokarczuk was appointed Vice President of PEN International at the organisation's 91st Congress in Kraków.

Tracks

Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob)Regarded as her magnum opus; 2014 Polish bestseller for nearly a year, Nike Prize winner, shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

Bieguni (Flights)Won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize - the first Polish novel to win the award.

Prawiek i inne czasy (Primeval and Other Times)Her 1996 breakthrough novel; a mythical multi-generational family saga set in a symbolic Polish village.

Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead)Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature; adapted into the film Spoor (2017).

Empuzjon (The Empusium)Her first novel post-Nobel (2022/2024 in English); a feminist horror set in a 1913 Silesian sanatorium, winner of the 2024 Europese Literatuurprijs.

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