Mountains of Literature Festival 2026

Name: Mountains of Literature Festival 2026
Start: 2026-07-15T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Centrum Kultury Gminy Nowa Ruda

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 · 21:00

Cultural Centre of Nowa Ruda Municipality, Ludwikowice Kłodzkie, Poland

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Mountains of Literature Festival 2026 — Cultural Centre of Nowa Ruda Municipality, Ludwikowice Kłodzkie

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Season passes: include all events (literary stage meetings and concerts) taking place at Sarny Castle 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 at Sarny Castle on that day.

About the festival: Mountains of Literature Festival 2026

12th edition

edition number

170+

events in 2026 programme

65 000+

visitors in 2025 (record)

venues in 2026

Good to know

Runs 9 days: 10-18 July 2026
Main stage: Zamek Sarny, Ścinawka Górna (ticketed); satellite events in Ludwikowice Kłodzkie, Nowa Ruda, Wałbrzych, Dzierżoniów, Polanica-Zdrój and more
Day ticket (Zamek Sarny, all events + evening concert): 128.90 PLN concession / 160.90 PLN full price
Weekend pass (Fri-Sun, 10-12 July) from 384.90 PLN; two-weekend pass from 601.40 PLN
Concerts/shows outside Zamek Sarny (13-16 July): separate tickets, 30-100 PLN; author talks at those venues are free
Most events (workshops, seminars, nature walks) are free but require advance registration by email: lul@fundacjaolgitokarczuk.org
Children under 12 enter Zamek Sarny weekend programme free; concession tickets for ages 12-26 and 60+
Train recommended by organizers; PKP is official travel partner of the 2026 edition

Line-up

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
Spięty 21:30
Bartek Wąsik 21:00
Żaneta Łabudska
Czesław Mozil
Andrzej Seweryn

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.

~40

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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