Krešimir Mišak is an Croatia

Croatia

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n journalist

Journalism

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, rock music

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ian and science fiction author

Science fiction

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Education

He has graduated journalism

Journalism

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 at Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

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 in 1996.

Career

He has proved to be successful in three different fields: journalism

Journalism

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, music

Music

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 and writing fiction

Fiction writing

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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 conspiracy 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

Telepathy

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 and Telekinesis

Psychokinesis

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) has been published in 2006.

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

Rock Band

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 Hakuna Matata.

Writer

Since 1999, he has published a dozen of science fiction short stories

Short story

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, 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.

External links

• Hakuna Matata - Mišak's current band
• Preko ruba znanosti - Mišak's blog
• Preko ruba znanosti - Mišak's blog (updated link)
• Krešimir Mišak: Vjerujem u sve u što vjeruju i moji gosti
• Gospodar tajni i urota s HRT-a