Margo Rejmer
Poland
Born in Warsaw in 1985, Małgorzata Margo Rejmer is a Polish writer and reporter whose work explores memory, history and everyday life, with a particular focus on the Balkans. After her debut novel Toksymia (2009), she lived in Romania and Albania for eight years, an experience that resulted in Bucharest: Dust and Blood (2013) and Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania (2018).
Her short story collection The Burden of Skin followed in 2023. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and has received major Polish literary awards, including the Kościelski Prize, the Polityka Passport Award and the Gryfia Award.