{"id":18107,"date":"2026-06-19T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=18107"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:46:28","slug":"radek-rak","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/radek-rak\/","title":{"rendered":"Radek Rak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a writer and a veterinary surgeon. He received the Nike Award, the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the Jerzy \u017bu\u0142awski Award, the Nowa Fantastyka Award and the European Science Fiction Society Award in the Best Written Work of Fiction category for his novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ba\u015b\u0144 o w\u0119\u017cowym sercu albo wt\u00f3re s\u0142owo o Jak\u00f3bie Szeli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Powergraph, 2019). He is the author of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> trilogy (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alef<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2022; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aurora<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2023; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abraxas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2025), all of which were published by Powergraph, as well as the libretto for the opera <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ba\u015b\u0144 o sercu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was nominated for the Fryderyk Award. He has also written the gamebook <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dunder albo kot z za\u015bwiatu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Muduko, 2024) and the children&#8217;s novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maja i czas motyli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Powergraph, 2026). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He enjoys helping his wife transform caterpillars into butterflies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">pic. 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