Conrad Festival#Conrad Award

{{Short description|Literary festival in Poland}}

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|name = Joseph Conrad International Festival of Literature

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|nickname = Conrad Festival

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|location = Kraków

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The Conrad Festival is an annual literary festival held in Kraków since 2009. It is organised by the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation and the Kraków Festival Office and is supported by the Kraków Municipal Government and Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It is the largest literary festival in Central Europe{{Cite web|url = https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/zegnaj-szkolo-28945|title = Żegnaj szkoło!|date = 29 June 2015|access-date = 2 September 2015|archive-date = 3 July 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190703162409/https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/zegnaj-szkolo-28945|url-status = dead}} and was named after Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.

The festival hosts artists from around the world, the representatives of various cultures and worldviews, who create not only literature, but also film, theatre, music and the visual arts. Each year, it accompanies the Kraków Book Fair. Unlike other Polish events that deal mostly with Polish literature, the Conrad Festival is intended to be a festival on an international level.http://www.conradfestival.pl/pl/3/0/2/{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Its many illustrious guests have included: recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature Herta Müller{{Cite web |url=http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/artykul/871713,noblistka-herta-mueller-spotkala-sie-z-czytelnikami,id,t.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040442/http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/artykul/871713,noblistka-herta-mueller-spotkala-sie-z-czytelnikami,id,t.html |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }} and Orhan Pamuk,{{cite web |url=http://www.conradfestival.pl/pl/4/1/395/orhan-pamuk-odwiedzil-krakow |title=Conrad Festival - 22-28 października 2012 |accessdate=2015-09-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026160508/http://www.conradfestival.pl/pl/4/1/395/orhan-pamuk-odwiedzil-krakow |archivedate=2012-10-26 }} Marjane Satrapi, Amos Oz, Rabih Alameddine, Claude Lanzmann, Yurii Andrukhovych,{{Cite web|url=http://www.mmkrakow.pl/artykul/festiwal-im-conrada-i-jego-goscie-wideo,2864624,art,t,id,tm.html|title = Festiwal im. Conrada i jego goście [wideo]|date = 3 November 2010}} David Grossman,{{Cite web|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,75475,10369705,Opera_Grossmana_na_Festiwalu_Conrada.html|title = Wyborcza.pl}} Paul Auster,{{Cite web|url=http://szuflada.net/paul-auster-gosciem-tegorocznej-edycji-festiwalu-conrada/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327130227/http://szuflada.net/paul-auster-gosciem-tegorocznej-edycji-festiwalu-conrada/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 27, 2015|title = Paul Auster gościem tegorocznej edycji Festiwalu Conrada – Szuflada.net}} László Krasznahorkai,{{Cite web|url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/9/201/Artykul/272106,Trojka-na-Festiwalu-im-Josepha-Conrada|title = Trójka na Festiwalu im. Josepha Conrada}} Alberto Manguel,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/conrad-zaprasza-24482|title = Conrad zaprasza!|date = 13 October 2014}} Boris Akunin,{{Cite web|url=http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/artykul/3620776,conrad-festival-boris-akunin-w-krakowie-zdjecia,id,t.html|title = Conrad Festival: Boris Akunin w Krakowie [ZDJĘCIA]|date = 24 October 2014}} Alain Mabanckou, Dubravka Ugrešić,{{Cite web|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,75475,12350412,Ugresic__Zabuzko_i_Mabanckou_na_Festiwalu_Conrada.html|title=Wyborcza.pl}} Magdalena Tulli,http://www.conradfestival.pl/pl/4/1/665/magdalena-tulli-nagrodzona{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Andrzej Stasiuk,{{Cite web|url=http://www.gazetawroclawska.pl/artykul/327948,festiwal-conrada-w-krakowie-na-dobry-poczatek-stasiuk,id,t.html?cookie=1|title = Festiwal Conrada w Krakowie: Na dobry początek... Stasiuk|date = 3 November 2010}} Jerzy Pilch,{{Cite web|url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/9/201/Artykul/272106,Trojka-na-Festiwalu-im-Josepha-Conrada|title = Trójka na Festiwalu im. Josepha Conrada}} and Olga Tokarczuk.{{Cite web|url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/8/3866/Artykul/1267323,Olga-Tokarczuk-psychika-piszacego-zaczyna-zagarniac-swiat-wokol|title = Olga Tokarczuk: Psychika piszącego zaczyna zagarniać świat wokół}}