Joanna Lech

Joanna Lech
Joanna Lech at the 2025 Book Fair in Kraków
Born (1984-01-25) 25 January 1984 (age 42)
Rzeszów, Poland
OccupationsPoet, writer
Websitewww.joannalech.pl

Joanna Lech (born 25 January 1984, in Rzeszów, Poland) – a Polish poet and writer. Author of three novels: Sztuczki (nominated for NIKE Literary Award 2017 and Gdynia Literary Prize 2017), Kokon, Drapieżcy chmur and five poetry collections: Zapaść, Nawroty (nominated for NIKE Literary Award 2011), Trans, Piosenki Pikinierów, Nocne i niecne. Editor of the anthology Znowu pragnę ciemnej miłości.

Participant of international literary festivals and book fairs in Ukraine, Czechia, Estonia, and the United Kingdom. Her poetry was translated into English, German, Ukrainian, Estonian, and Czech. She published in the US anthology Scattering the Dark, Two Lines: The Future of Translation, and in journals: Guernica Magazine, Atlanta Review, and Rowboat (translated by Karen Kovacik). OFF_Press London published her bilingual collection Nic z tego / Nothing of this (translated by Marek Kazmierski). Her poems appeared in the anthologies Free Over Blood and Once Upon a Deadline, the trilinguial journal Radar, and the Czech literary magazine Tvar.

Grant recipient of the City of Kraków, the Grazella Foundation, and the ZAiKS Authors' Association. Resident of the International Writers' and Translators' House in Ventspils, the Czech Literary Centre in Broumov, the Once Upon a Deadline project in the UK, the Visegrad Literary Residencies in Budapest, Prague UNESCO, Tropinka in Białowieża, Parada – House of Three Cultures, the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby, and Tartu UNESCO.

Graduate of the Literary-Arts faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Lives in Kraków.

Works

Novels

Poetry

Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ Zapaść Joanny Lech w Łodzi Kurier365. Retrieved July 4, 2012
  2. ↑ Nominees Announced for the 2017 Nike Literary Award Wyborcza.pl. Retrieved June 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Nominees for the 2017 Gdynia Literary Prize Nagroda Literacka Gdynia. Retrieved July 25, 2026
  4. ↑ Nominees Announced for the 2011 Nike Literary Award Culture.pl. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Joanna Lech's biography on OFF_Press OFF_Press. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ Joanna Lech – Nothing of this OFF_Press. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  7. ↑ "Poeci na nowy wiek" / "Poets for a New Age", Roman Honet, ed. Archived 2013-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Culture.pl. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  8. ↑ Anthology "Free Over Blood" Polish Cultural Institute. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  9. ↑ "Free Over Blood" – Contemporary Polish Writing in Translation[link removed] Culture.pl. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  10. ↑ Anthology "Once Upon a Deadline" OFF_Press. Retrieved July 3, 2012
  11. ↑ "Home - Polish Cultural Institute". www.polishculture-nyc.org. Retrieved 2016-05-22.