Guest of a fearless one: Olga Tokarczuk invites you to the Polish Literature Festival

At some point the streets become narrower, the towns become smaller and more winding. Then they disappear completely and there is only forest and serpentines. It goes through Silesia into the Sudeten Mountains on the southwestern edge of Poland. A good two hours from Breslau you get out of the car at an estate with a castle and a chapel, the area half renovated, half dilapidated. Book and literature enthusiasts meet at this place every summer. Especially fans of the writer Olga Tokarczuk, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. She lives in this area. When everything started with these meetings in 2015, she simply invited the guests to her terrace. Since then, the festival has grown from year to year. Góry Literatury is called, somewhat loosely translated: heights of literature.