The spirit of Christmas. Author's meeting with Anna Kańtach

Christmas with ghosts? Let's play it with Anna Kańtach! “Ghost of Christmas” is a book game inspired by Agatha Christie's classic crime novels. About how to conduct an investigation and how to have fun with it, the author Anna Kańtach will talk with the host Dorota Lińska- Złoch.Feel with us the “Spirit of Christmas” together with the hero of this story: a spirit trapped between worlds, destined to observe the living and discover their secrets.

Anna Kańtach (born 1976) — Orientalist by education, author of fantasy and crime books. Five-time winner of the Janusz A. Zajdl Prize, in 2013 she was also awarded the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Prize for her novel Czarne. Her first book devoid of fantasy elements, Grace, was nominated for a Grand Caliber Award and won the “Criminal Saw” award.

Another, “Faith”, received the Janina Paradowska Special Prize during the International Crime Festival 2018. The first volume of the trilogy — “Spring of the Lost” (Margins 2020) received the Grand Caliber Award, the subsequent volumes — “Summer of the Lost” (2021) and “Autumn of the Forgotten” (2022) were well received, and the film rights to the entire trilogy were sold. In 2023, her crime novel Samotnia, nominated for the Grand Caliber Award, was published in Margins.

In 2026, The Winter of Goodbye and the Spirit of Christmas were published.

Admission is free.