Rafał Kosik
2008/05/11
He was born on 8 October 1971 in Warsaw.
He is incomplete architect. After third year he gave up studies at Technical University of Warsaw to set up his own company – an advertising agency Powergraph. In 2004 company started to transform into publishing house.
He’s been writing for a long time, but he emerged as a serious writer with short story “Connecting rooms” published in monthly magazine “Nowa Fantastyka” 9/2001. Then there came several dozen of short stories published mainly in “Nowa Fantastyka” and “Science Fiction”. His debut novel was “Mars” and the most popular of his works is a series of science fiction novels for young people “Felix, Net & Nika”. Since the middle of 2007 he’s started to consider himself a full-time writer.
He write to fulfill the need of telling stories. However he believe that reading should be pleasure in the first place. If the story is to be boring, it’s better not to share it with the world at all. Serious message should be delivered in reader-friendly way. He value Lem, Dick and King both for the thought behind their stories and for the atmosphere they were able to create. Good literature is a friend, not a burden.
What do he write? The stories he would like to read himself - both science fiction and horror and preferably the mix of these two genres. He is not interested in describing the reality as it is. It should be left to the chronicles.
Romuald Pawlak
2008/05/11
Romuald Pawlak was born in 1967 in Sosnowiec where he lives until present. He had his first articles published in “Na Przełaj”. In the nineties he wrote some articles and reviews for “Fenix”, then many of his stories appeared in “Nowa Fantastyka” and “Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror”. One of them entitled “Wniebowstąpienie Menela” (”Ascension of the Dosser”) was nominated for the Zajdel Award (Polish fantasy and science fiction literary award ). He has published many novels for adults of which the best known are: “Inne okręty” and “Wilcza krew, smoczy ogień” (”Wolf’s blood, dragon’s fire”). His latest book “Miłek z Czarnego Lasu” (”Miłek from the Black Forest”) is addressed to young readers.
Christian Bieniek
2008/05/11
Christian Bieniek was born in 1956 in Dieburg, Germany, settled in Düsseldorf in 1984. At the age of 15 he passed entrance examinations to the Music Conservatory in Cologne where he studied piano and percussion. He played the guitar in a punk band and worked as a piano teacher. At the same time he was writing radio plays and television sketches. His first book for teens “Immer cool bleiben” (”Stay Cool”) was published in 1993.
Later on he wrote over 90 book for children and teenagers that were translated into a dozen or so languages.
Christian Bieniek died in Düsseldorf in 2005.
Łukasz Orbitowski
2008/05/11
Łukasz Orbitowski ( 1977) is one of the most interesting Polish prose writers. He has published a storybook “Wigilijne Psy” ( “Christmas Eve Dogs”), novels: “Horror Show”, “Tracę ciepło” ( “Loosing warmth”). Together with Jarosław Urbaniuk he wrote the work “Pies i klecha” (”The Dog and the Holy Joe”). He also writes articles for magazines: Lampa, Nowa Fantastyka, Activist and Dziennik daily.
This collection of fables about the two cats - Orbitowski’s most personal book so far - has been dedicated to his son.
The illustrations have been made by the author’s father, Janusz Orbitowski.
Robert Starzec
2008/05/11
Robert Starzec was born in 1979.
A traveller, a writer, a photographer and a teacher. He has travelled through all continents ( worked as a waiter on Antilles, taught Polish language in Australia) and says that right after Eskimos and Pygmies Polish children are the craziest and coolest in the world and Poland is the most cheerful country.
He claims to be kidnapped by UFO in his early childhood, which justifies 120 days of his absence in nursery. He collects shirts and sunglasses. His hobby is playing the bagpipe.