Małgorzata Lebda

Author of Voracious

Małgorzata Lebda is well-known as a poet with nine collections to her name. Queen Cells was published in 2025 in the UK by Broken Sleep Books. Among other major accolades, she won the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Award in 2022. Voracious, her debut novel, is the winner of Empik’s Best Newcomer in Poland and is shortlisted for the Angelus Prize, the Conrad Prize and the NIKE Award. Małgorzata Lebda is also a photographer and marathon runner - she ran a distance of 1,113 kilometres along the Vistula River as part of her activism/poetry project Reading Water.

Praise for Voracious:

“Lebda’s prose is exceptional - she has successfully created a microcosmos where everything is interconnected, dying and full of life at the same time.” Polityka

“Lebda has a rare and fabulous sense of language, of the meaning of words, a way of anchoring and transforming them.” Gazeta Wyborcza