Mer de Glace

Małgorzata Lebda is a Polish poet, fiction writer and ultramarathon runner. She is the author of seven poetry collections, including Mer de Glace which received the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Prize, and Dunaj. Chyłe pola which was awarded the Kościelski Foundation Award. In 2023, Lebda published her prose debut, Łakome (Voracious). The novel has been translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Linden Editions, 2025), and a film adaptation will be released in 2027. Her books have been translated into numerous languages, including English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Czech, Serbian, Ukrainian, Slovenian and Danish. She grew up in a hamlet in the Beskid Mountains and still lives in the countryside, sharing her life between the Beskid Mountains and a meadow house in the Suwałki Gap. She is currently working on her second novel.

‘This is ecopoetry at its most profound and informal, challenging and pleasurable.’— Fiona Sampson, Guardian