We have large news for you – during the Pyrkon Fantasy Festival and this year in the Literary region will appear well known You are the creators who have been shaping the face of Polish fantasy for years. Winners of the most crucial literary awards, authors of best-selling cycles, writers combining discipline with imagination and creatively building a unique folk noir climate – all will meet you on Pyrkon. This year we will be visited by Radek Rak, Magdalena Salik, Justyna Hankus and Rafał Kosik.
We present to you our guests!
photo by Piotr Tołłoczko
Radek Cancer was born in 1987 in Dębica. He is simply a veterinarian and a fantasy writer. He published his first short stories under the pseudonym "Ajwenhoł". They were later released in magazines specified as “New fantasy”, “Lampa”, or “Fantastics – peculiar Edition”. His book debut is the fresh “I Love You, Lilith”. He is besides the author of the fresh “Puste sky”, which was nominated for the Janusz A. Zajdel Prize and received the Golden Award of the Jerzy Żuławski Literary Prize. 1 cannot neglect to mention “The Fairy Tales of the Serpent Heart or the Second Word of James Shela.” For this fresh Radek received many prestigious awards – the Nike Award, the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the Jerzy Żuławski Award, the fresh Fantasy Award and the European discipline Fiction Society Award in the Best Written Work of Fiction category.
The author besides released 3 volumes of the series Agla, meaning “Agla. Alef”, “Agla. Aurora” and “Agla. Abraxas”. These are adventure stories, in which nevertheless bravado action is as crucial as intellectual themes, focusing on transforming and uncovering yourself. In his work Radek besides has a paragraph game “Dunder or cat from the afterlife” (Muduko, 2024). In his spare time, he and his wife enjoy turning caterpillars into butterflies.
photo by Mikołaj Starzyński
Ms Magdalena Salik is simply a author and experienced writer related to discipline and culture. For years she worked in the media – first as editor of the technological department “Dziennik. Poland, Europe, the World”, then as editor-in-chief of the magazine “Focus”. It is related to the gaming manufacture – it works in CD task RED.
She is the author of the series “The Valley of the Dark”, which includes “Gildia of the Hords”, “Runs of the Ords” and “The Song of the surviving Rocks” and the fresh “The Flame”, for which she received, among others, the Jerzy Żuławski Main Prize, the Janusz A. Zajdel Award and the Maciej Parowski’s “New Fantasy” Award and “Wrath”.
Privately she is simply a lover of popular discipline literature and computer RPG games. These are passions that naturally intertwine with her professional and creative interests.
photo of Przemo Pączkowski
Justyna Hankus – a postgraduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, a author and illustrator who combines artistic sensitivity with literary imagination in her work. She is the author of the fresh “Grisaille on the average Settlement” (Institute of Literature, 2022) and 2 books from the folk noir stream: “Two and a Half Souls. Folk noir" (Powergraph, 2023) and "Possist. Folk noir" (Powergraph, 2025). In 2023 her radio "Laweta" (Empik Go) was besides released. Her stories were published in many writings and anthologies, which confirms her active presence on the contemporary literary scene.
She is privately a happy wife and parent of 2 sons. In his spare time, he dedicates his passion to plants, knitting (and sometimes with equal satisfaction, he makes ready sweaters) and creates handicraft bags and bracelets that he collects. Another crucial place in her heart is drawing – Justyna draws whenever she can.
photo of Przemo Pączkowski
Rafał Kosik He is the creator who gained popularity thanks to the multivolume youth series Felix, Net and Nika, telling about the crazy adventures of 3 friends. Despite the publication of specified a comprehensive cycle, his literary achievements include many another novels, making him 1 of the most versatile Polish writers. His fresh "Cyberpunk 2077: No chance" was published simultaneously by Orbit US and Orbit UK (Hachette) and Polish Powergraph publishing house. Rafał besides contributed to the creation of the script for the series "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners".
Among his achievements are besides discipline fiction novels for adults: “Mars”, “Vertical”, “Kameleon” and “Rosian” as well as children’s series “Amelia and Cuba” and “I like it”. He is the recipient of the most prestigious awards, and his texts were translated into Ukrainian, Czech, French, German, Lithuanian, Hungarian and Russian.
If you love literature, talk about the creative process and stories that stay with the reader for a long time, it is essential to book your time to meet our fantastic guests!







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