Max Kiprint, Nick Groom and Andrzej Pilipiuk join a immense group of literary guests who will visit this year's Pyrkon. Each of them creates something fantastic – science-fiction books, interpretations of works of large creators or novels that, despite different worlds, combine recurring characters. nevertheless – this is just a taste of what they gotta offer their fans. Let's meet them closer!
Max Kiprint
Max is simply a science-fiction author from Ukraine. He loves to travel and has visited more than 35 countries! His first fresh – titled “Mexican Chronicles. The communicative of 1 Dream" – he released in 2009 and won second place in the Ukrainian literary award “Award Coronation of the Word”. For the next 3 years, he published various types of memoirs from his journey, but a real literary breakthrough occurred in 2012, erstwhile he wrote a fresh titled “Bot”. It was hailed as the “first technological thriller” released in its country. In time, he went into a somewhat different style, developing drama and intellectual side of his novels. He wrote further books – “The interior Side of Dreams” (2016) and “Godlessness” (2018). The second – released in 2018 – for 13 weeks was in the TOP 20 letters “Bookstore E”, and by 7 of them – in the first place. In 2022 he and his wife founded his own publishing house, under whose name he published a fresh entitled “Colony”, which became the beginning of his most popular series – “New Dark Ages”. This book conquered the TOP 20 letters “Bookstore E” for 24 weeks!
Nick Groom
Nick is simply a prof. of English literature. In his professorial adventure, he lectured mainly at the University of Exeter, England, and since 2020 lectured at the University of Macau. He was besides at the University of Chicago, Stanford, Oxphrod and Bristol. In a fantastic environment he became celebrated for his publications on the works of the celebrated author – J. R. R. Tolkien. We know him from the book “Tolkien in the 21st century. What does mediate Earth mean to us today?” he knows (and if not, he should) all fan of the worlds created by Tolkien. Nick besides wrote (or edited) over 20 another books and over 60 technological articles.
Andrzej Pilipiuk
Andrzej is an archeologist by education, and with a passion for the regionalist he has publications on the past and culture of Wojsławic. He made his debut in a literary short communicative "Hien", written in 1996. There, for the first time, the character of Jakub Wędrowicz appeared, which he later placed repeatedly in his novels and short stories. He is the author of respective continuations of Mr. Carmaker's adventures, and in his literary achievements even has connections with the comic book. He has written over 70 books, and in his work he frequently experimentes with various literary genres. It combines elements of fantasy, horror, sensationality and humor, intertwining everything with surviving communicative and illustrious characters. In 2002, he was honored with the Fandom Award of the Polish name Janusz A. Zajdel for his short communicative “Kuzinki”.
A fewer words of summary
We know that the Literary region in Pyrkon will be visited by many large guests and it will be hard to decide who to go to – but we are certain that these 3 are worth visiting! If you want to learn how to juggle characters well between different worlds, how many interesting things for modern times you can find in older books or how to make your own release and release a best seller with it – Nick, Andrew and Max will surely not disappoint you!
