Małgorzata Lebda is a Polish poet, fiction writer, mountaineer, ultramarathon runner, and photographer. She is the author of seven poetry collections, including the award-winning volumes Queen Cells and Dreams of the Uckermärkers. Her volume Mer de Glace, from which these poems come, received the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Award. In 2023 she published her prose debut, Voracious, which won the Empik Discovery Award and the Wielkopolska Readers’ Choice Award (the literary award of Greater Poland). The novel’s translation rights were sold to numerous countries shortly after its release, and work on a film adaptation is underway. Lebda holds a PhD in literary theory and audiovisual arts and teaches in the creative writing department at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including Czech, Danish, English, Italian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. She lives in a small town in the Beskid Mountains, where she grew up.
Poetry
Fall 2025
The Sava, the Danube
A letter from my translator all the way in Serbia: about death — the kindthat sends a fox ahead of it, sickness — but above all she goes onabout life, about the stubborn translation […]