Poland at the Eñe Festival 2026

Literary events

• 12 November, 7:30 p.m. – “Poéticas de la tierra y la memoria” (“Poetics of the Earth and Memory”). Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak and Paula Bonet will talk at the Ateneo de Madrid.
• 13 November, 7:00 p.m. – “Poéticas para una crónica de la memoria” (“Poetics for a Chronicle of Memory”). Katarzyna Kobylarczyk and Paco Cerdà will meet at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
• 13 November, 9:00 p.m. – “Poéticas de los lenguajes salvajes” (“Poetics of Wild Languages”). Urszula Honek, Antonio Martínez Asensio and Xavier Farré will discuss poetry at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
• 14 November, 6:30 p.m. – “La poética de los exilios exteriores e interiores” (“The Poetics of External and Internal Exile”). Małgorzata Rejmer and Marcin Kurek will appear alongside Gioconda Belli and Pedro Mairal. Mónica de la Fuente will moderate the discussion at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
• 16 November, 7:30 p.m. – Meeting with Tomasz Różycki. The poet will talk with Gonzalo Escarpa at Ámbito Cultural El Corte Inglés.
• 17 November, 7:00 p.m. – “Mellas en la piel: voces de la poesía polaca contemporánea” (“Scars on the Skin: Voices of Contemporary Polish Poetry”). Marcin Kurek, Jordi Doce and Xavier Farré will meet at the Parenthesis bookshop. The event is linked to an anthology of contemporary Polish poetry prepared by Farré.
• 23 November, 7:00 p.m. – “Poéticas que conectan Centroeuropa y América Latina” (“Poetics Connecting Central Europe and Latin America”). Mariusz Szczygieł and Jorge Volpi will meet at Casa de América.
• 28 November, 6:30 p.m. – Discussion of “Białe małżeństwo” (“White Marriage”). Weronika Murek, Ricardo Iniesta and members of the La Peatonal company will discuss Tadeusz Różewicz’s play at the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 in Málaga. The event will be accompanied by a performance by the company.

Theatre and other events

On 4 November at 8:00 p.m., Agnieszka Holland spoke with Jesús Ruiz Mantilla in the Jerónimos Cloister at the Prado Museum. The event was titled “Poéticas del cine y la pintura” (“Poetics of Cinema and Painting”).

On 10 November at 7:00 p.m., Mateusz Lenart and Al Ewing will take part in “Reescribiendo mitos: De Silent Hill a Linterna Verde” (“Rewriting Myths: From Silent Hill to Green Lantern”) at CUPRA City Garage Madrid. The event will be accompanied by an immersive digital installation by Lenart.

The theatre programme includes four Polish productions. On 6 November, Agnieszka Przepiórska will perform the monodrama No se muere en mayo. La historia de Barbara Sadowska (“You Don’t Die in May: The Story of Barbara Sadowska”) at Teatro de La Abadía, at 12:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. A conversation with the actress is scheduled after the noon performance. On 7 November at 8:00 p.m., she will perform Ginczanka, a monodrama about the poet Zuzanna Ginczanka.

On 12 November, Teatro Réplika will host a performative adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. The La Peatonal company’s production of White Marriage is scheduled for 15 November at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and 28 November at the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 in Málaga.

The Polish programme also features three film events: 9 November at 7:00 p.m. – a screening of Total Eclipse, directed by Agnieszka Holland; 24 November at 7:00 p.m. – a screening of Chopin, followed by a discussion with its director, Michał Kwieciński; and 25 November at 10:00 p.m. – a screening of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War. All three screenings will take place at the Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes.

On 10 November, pianist Rafał Blechacz will perform at the Auditorio Nacional de Música.

The Polish Book Institute is supporting the participation of Urszula Honek, Małgorzata Rejmer, Tomasz Różycki, Marcin Kurek and Weronika Murek.