Rafał Wojasiński (born 1974) is a celebrated author of fiction and drama and a winner of the Józef Mackiewicz Literary Award and of the Marek Nowakowski Literary Award (2019, for Olanda). Among his works are Złodziej ryb (The Fish Thief, 2004), Stara (The Old Woman, 2011) and Olanda (2018), as well as the plays Długie życie (A Long Life, 2017), Dziad Kalina (Old Man Kalina, 2018) and Siostry (Sisters, 2019). Many of his dramatic works have also been performed as radio plays, and Stara was adapted for the Polish Radio Theatre by Waldemar Modestowicz. His works have been translated into English, French, Spanish and Bulgarian, and have been nominated for the Gdynia Drama Award (for Siostry, 2019) and the Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (2022, for Tefil).

Marek Nowakowski called him “a wild writer” and wrote that in his stories “unexpectedly, reality passes into a higher sphere” (introduction to Złodziej ryb, translated from Polish). The jury of the Marek Nowakowski Literary Award honoured him “for his mastery of various types of short stories, his excellent use of language, and finally, for the consistency with which he has portrayed, over many years, the poor people of our times, the wronged and the humiliated, in a way that is subtle and profound.”