Gdynia Literary Prize

Program of “Literaturomanie” 2008 was full of numerous events, such as:

• Author. Author! – meetings with leading Polish authors (the guests were: Wiesław Myśliwski, Eustachy Rylski, Leszek Szaruga, Jacek Żakowski).
• Literary Debates of „Gdynia” – meetings with nominees and readings of fragments of their books.
• Gdynia Drama Prize – presentation of fragments of winning drama and conversation with author.
• Music event – free of charge (Świetliki).
• Open Tournament of One Poem – a combination of poetry and performance during which competitors present their works while the jury (Wojciech Boros, Wojciech Bonowicz oraz Tadeusz Dąbrowski) judge their performance and present the winners (in previous editions: Patryk Dziczek, Joanna Herman, Maciej Kotłowski, Natalia Malek, Anna Wieser, Mariusz Więcek).
• Special movie screenings – and meetings with their creators („Jegomość Tischner i jego filozofia po góralsku”, creators: Witold Bereś, Artur Więcek).
• Second-book Fair – where the best collections can be found.
• Gdynia Literary Prize Vademecum – book stand where books of the nominees can be bought and signatures with dedications can be obtained.
• Poetry Workshops – free of charge classes for 10-15 people which are held by one of prize winners of the previous edition (in 2008 workshops were held by Wojciech Bonowicz).

Moreover, during the festival there are many open debates held with prominent guests such as: Stefan Chwin, Piotr Kłoczowski, Stanisław Rosiek, Krzysztof Środa, Jacek Żakowski.

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  Vademecum GLP - in the background: Wiesław Myśliwski signing his books
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  Chapter's members debate
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  Open Tournament of One Poem
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  Świetliki performance during "Literarymania"

In "Literaturomanie" 2009's program which took place on 12–13 June 2009 one could find:

• Author. Author! – meetings with leading Polish authors: Hanna Krall - meeting chaired by Paweł Huelle and Janusz Głowacki, chaired by - Remigiusz Grzela.
• Gdynia zaczytana - photos' exhibition.
• Gdynia Literary Prize Vademecum – book stand where books of the nominees can be bought and signatures with dedications can be obtained.
• Literary Debates of „Gdynia” - meetings with nominees chaired by literary critics and journalists: poetry - Michał Chaciński (TVP Kultura), prose - Andrzej Franaszek (Tygodnik Powszechny), essay - Łukasz Rudziński (trojmiasto.pl).
• pl:Mumio - performance and meeting with pl:Mumio.
• Open Tournament of One Poem – third edition; combination of poetry and performance; jury: Leszek Szaruga, Anna Sobecka and Wojciech Boros.
• Prose workshops – free of charge, two-day classes for 10 people, held by Leszek Szaruga
• Second-book fair.
• Two decades of Polish literature - debate on Polish literature after year 1989; participants: Przemysław Czapliński, Ewa Graczyk, Leszek Szaruga, Adam Wiedemann and Marek Zaleski.

the meeting was chaired by Dariusz Bugalski.

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  Literaturomanie 2009 in pl:Teatr Miejski im. Witolda Gombrowicza w Gdyni
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  Literary Debate of "Gdynia" with nominees to NLG A.D. 2009 for essay
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  Hanna Krall, Paweł Huelle and Dorota Nowak
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  Open Tournament of One Poem
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  Literaturomanie 2009
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  Second-book fair
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  Janusz Głowacki signing his books
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  Debate "Two decades of Polish literature"

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  Adam Wiedemann - poetry prizewinner
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  Piotr Matywiecki - essay prizewinner
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  Marian Pankowski - prose prizewinner
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  Interpretations by Krzysztof Majchrzak