Łęko Zygmuntówne
Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies", December 2024
Łęko Zygmuntówne (Łukasz Kaźmierczak/Łucja Kuttig) is the author of Kokosty (2018, the main prize in the J. Bierezin Poetry Competition), Agresty (2019, winner of the Klemens Janicki Poetry Competition), Orzechnia. Orzechnini – Orzechnica – Orzechniczka (2021, published thanks to support from the Adam Włodek Prize) and Hiobby (2023). The texts verbalise observations and visions of a world in which the boundaries between the sexes, intimate and public life, own and foreign identity, consciousness and unconsciousness of one’s own existence are blurred. The content of the texts is reflected in the linguistic means, they meander, feature exotic terminology, move between science and social experience, and detect supposed similarities between phenomena. Further publications of Łęko Zygmuntówne’s works can be found in magazines (e.g. »Zadra«, »Silne«), zines (e.g. »Poczytałosie«, »Queerowe ekologie«) and anthologies (most recently »X-Philes archiwum queerowej poezji«, »Równo z prawej. Antologia polskiego poematu prozą«, and »Dezorientacje. Antologia polskiej literatury queer«). They have been translated into Bulgarian, English, German and Slovakian.