Voracious

Malgorzata Lebda is well-known as a poet, with eight collections toher name. Among other majoraccolades, she won the prestigious Wislawa Szymborska Award in 2022. Voracious,the winner of Empik's Best Newcomerin Poland, shortlisted for Angelus Prize, Conrad Award and NIKE Award, is her debut novel. Malgorzata Lebda isalso a photographer and marathon runner - she covered a distance of 1113 kilometres along the Vistula River as part of her activist/poetry project Reading Water.Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's books from Polish. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.

"Voracious has a hallucinatory quality – passionate, disturbing, memorable – like a dream sent tous by a druid. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has rendered this dream in a breathtaking English translation that seethes and flickers like the scenes it depicts." -- Sasha Dugdale"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"Voracious is gorgeous, vivid, timeless, a novel about a small place and a small family as a microcosmof the human family and the whole world at this particular moment in time." -- Sara Baume"A dark, gorgeous and haunting book about bodies, attention and care" -- Sarah Moss"Life and death are beautifully balanced in Lebda's lyrical novel." -- Olga Tokarczuk"Lebda has a rare and fabulous sense of language, of the meaning of words, a way of anchoring and transforming them." -- Gazeta Wyborcza"This controlled, spare and often exquisite novel is concerned with the seasons, the countryside, and humans coexisting with the darker aspects of themselves and of nature … All of death and life is in Lebda's short work, bloody, beautiful and intermingling. A quiet joy of a book." -- Catherine Taylor, Irish Times