This year, apart from popular Polish authors, such as Filip Springer, Magdalena Grzebałkowska, Jakub Żulczyk or Weronika Murek, the organisers invited, among others, Ireland’s Colin Barrett (‘Young Skins’), the winner of Frank O’Connor Award – the most important international award for his collection of short stories (25,000 EUR), the Bulgarian prose writer Kalin Terzijski, whose short stories have recently been published by Książkowe Klimaty, the Swedish writer Ida Linde (‘If I Forget You, I’ll Become Someone Else”), the popular Czech author Petra Soukupova (‘To Disappear’), the French literary star Alain Mabanckou, born in Congo (e.g., ‘Memoirs of a Porcupine’, ‘Broken Glass’), as well as guests from Ukraine, the USA and the Basque Country.
The reading of prose by the authors (in original languages) is accompanied by creative writing workshops, exhibitions, discussion panels (including, among others, Jacek Hugo-Bader and Beata Stasińska) and an overview of film adaptations (this year films from the countries of the Visegrad Group will be shown, including ‘Alois Nebel’, ‘The Living Whip’, ‘Krakatit’, ‘The Notebook’). Awards will be also granted in competitions for the best short story (‘Promise’) and the best translation.
This year’s festival will take place in the Lower Silesian Film Centre (film adaptations), the BWA Wroclaw Design Gallery (discussion panels, meetings with authors) and Stara Plebania (presentations, Plac Nankiera 17). The International Short Story Festival will last from the 26th of September till the 4th of October. Tickets for film shows cost 11 PLN. Other events are available for free.
Further information and the program of the festival are available at www.opowiadanie.org.
