The Polish Book Institute

Radek Rak, author of the novels Baśń o wężowym sercu albo wtóre słowo o Jakóbie Szeli (”The Tale of the Serpent’s Heart”) and Agla. Alef, is the sole Nike Literary Award winner associated with fantasy in the award's history to date. In an interview with the Book Institute, he talks about his literary masters, his love of genre literature, his spiritual and reading adventures, and explains that in order to really understand something, he has to write about it.