Krešimir Mišak

Krešimir Mišak (born 1972) is an Croatian science journalist, rock musician and science fiction author.

Education

He has graduated journalism at Faculty of political science (literally from Croatian: "Fakultet političkih znanosti" [http://www.step.hr/std-info/buduci-studenti/svi-faksovi/fakultet-politickih-znanosti.shtml] ) at the University of Zagreb in 1996.

Career

He has proved to be successful in three different fields: journalism, music and writing fiction.

Journalist

Since 1988 he works in educational shows of the Croatian Radio. He is most famous for his talk show "Na rubu znanosti" (On the edge of science) that discusses scientific theories, which he hosts on Croatian Television since 2002.He also occasionally writes for magazines "Zabavnik", "Drvo znanja", "Modra lasta", "Svjetlost", "Nexus" and "Vizionar". His popular science book "Telepatija i telekineza" (Telepathy and Telekinesis) has been published in 2006.

Musician

He has held his first concert in [http://www.kset.org KSET] in 1988. Since then, he has recorded six albums with four different bands: "Fantomi", "Fantomi2", "Građani" and "Virusi". He is currently the frontman of the rock band Hakuna Matata.

Writer

Since 1999, he has published a dozen of science fiction short stories, most of them in [http://futura.zg-naklada.hr Futura magazine] and [http://www.sfera.hr/zbirke.php Annual collections of Croatian science fiction] . He has won [http://www.sfera.hr/nagrada/ SFera Award] in the category "novelette" twice - for "Svijet iduće sekunde" in 2000, and for "Akvarij sa zlatnim ribicama" in 2005. "Svijet iduće sekunde" was republished in "Ad Astra - Anthology of Croatian science fiction short stories 1976-2006".
"Zvjezdani riffovi", collection of his short stories, was published in 2005.

See also

* Science fiction in Croatia

External links

* [http://hakunamatata.index.hr Hakuna Matata] - Mišak's current band
* [http://misakvecernji.blog.hr/ Preko ruba znanosti] - Mišak's blog
* [http://blog.vecernji.hr/misak/ Preko ruba znanosti] - Mišak's blog (updated link)

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