Lebda Mer de Glace

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-80427-214-5
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 52 Seiten

In 2021, Ma?gorzata Lebda ran the entire length of the longest river in Poland, the Vistula, from its source in the Beskid Mountains to its mouth at the Baltic Sea. She set out to run as a poet, not as an athlete, to use the rhythms of her own body as a means of understanding and connecting to the rhythms of the river's body of water, under threat of environmental ruin. Her collection Mer de Glace, which won the Szymborska Prize, is the culmination of her remarkable journey, and a profound meditation on the porosity, reactivity and receptivity of both the body and the natural world, and of their influences on one another.

Ma?gorzata Lebda is a Polish poet, fiction writer, mountaineer, ultramarathon runner and photographer. She is the author of six poetry collections, including the award-winning volumes Queen Cells and Dreams of the Uckermärkers. Her latest collection, Mer de Glace, received the prestigious Wislawa Szymborska Prize. In 2023, she published her prose debut, Voracious, which won the 'Empik Discovery' Award and the Literary Award of Greater Poland. Voracious has since been translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Linden Press, 2025). 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 English, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Ukrainian, and Danish. She lives in a small town in the Beskid mountains, where she grew up.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lebda, Malgorzata

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Rosenthal, Mira