Krešimir Mišak
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Krešimir Mišak (born 1972) is an Croatian science journalist, rock musician and science fiction author.
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[edit] Education
He has graduated journalism at Faculty of political science (literaly from Croatian: Fakultet političkih znanosti [1]) at the University of Zagreb in 1996.
[edit] Career
He has proved to be successful in three different fields: journalism, music and writing fiction.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Musician
He has held his first concert in 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.
[edit] Writer
Since 1999, he has published a dozen of science fiction short stories, most of them in Futura magazine and Annual collections of Croatian science fiction. He has won 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.
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[edit] External links
- Hakuna Matata - Mišak's current band
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| NAME | Mišak, Krešimir |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Croatian science journalist, rock musician and science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zagreb, Croatia |
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