Krakow - UNESCO City of Literature
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Nick Hodge
29.11.2013 10:24
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Krakow UNESCO City of Literature
Krakow is setting in motion a series of new initiatives on the back of its newly-won status as a UNESCO City of Literature.
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Deputy Mayor Magdalena Sroka told Polish Radio correspondent Nick Hodge that the city has ten principal paths that it is following.
Reflecting on the city's literary credentials, the Jagiellonian University's Associate Professor Magdalena Heydel expressed her hopes that the UNESCO status will help make reading “something that is fashionable.”
London-based writer, translator and publisher Marek Kazmierzki ponders what would be the ideal literary city, and owner of Krakow's Massolit bookstore David Miller considers the city's suitability for the UNESCO badge.
Piotr Kalinski, owner of the Lokator publishing house and literary cafe provides a perspective from Krakow's up and coming generation of bibliophiles.
Krakow originally applied to UNESCO for the literary status in 2011, and late last month it joined Edinburgh, Melbourne, Australia, Iowa, Dublin, Ireland, Reykjavík and Norwich as the seventh city in the group. Find out more in this audio report.