Author's meeting with Maciej Siembieda

IT WILL BE A CRIMINAL! III - Crime Festival in November 2026!

Today we invite you to the third edition of the crime festival “There will be a crime!” in Radom, which will take place from 19 to 22 November 2026. The event will be an opportunity to meet writers of crime and sensational literature, police profilers, investigative journalists and creators of popular true crime podcasts.

One of the authors who accepted our invitation is Maciej Siembieda! This time we will talk mainly about the books “Phantom” and “Posusz”. The conversation with our guest will be led by Paweł Błach.

Maciej Siembieda - He made his debut as a writer at the age of 56 and quickly became one of the most popular creators of sensational novels in Poland.

Author of books, the hero of which is an expert in historical investigations — Jakub Kania (444, Place and Name, Votum, Puppets, Lullaby, Lullaby, Orient, Dobowtór and now the newest Phantom — two of them received a nomination for the Grand Caliber award) and the Polish-Greek sensational saga Katharsis (Readers of Great Caliber Award 2023) and full of momentum thrillers Nemezis, which was included in the final of the competition Book of the Year 2023 lubimyczytac.pl. In October 2024, the third part of the saga entitled: Kairos (Book of the Year 2024 in the Plebiscite of the portal lubimyczytac.pl in Historical Novel category). He also has the historical thriller Gambit, nominated for the 2019 Book of the Year title lubimyczytac.pl and the novel Gołoborze (2025). For six of Maciej Siembieda's books, film rights were sold.

Before he began writing novels, he was a reporter conducting historical investigations for three decades. Three times he was awarded the prize of the Association of Polish Journalists (the so-called Polish Pulitzer). The hallmarks of Siembieda are building sensational stories on the canvas of real events, writing with a pen and collecting historical curiosities in famous notebooks. He also shares his reporting-historical discoveries in the author's video podcast “Bureau of Lost Histories”, available on the YouTube channel of Radio ZET.

Source: Agora Publishing House.

Admission is free.

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The partner of the event is the Mazowieckie Voivodship Self-Government.