WRITER

Andrzej Sapkowski

1948 - Today

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Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish: [ˈandʐɛj sapˈkɔfskʲi]; born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer, essayist, translator and a trained economist. He is best known for his six-volume series of books The Witcher, which revolves around the eponymous "witcher," a monster-hunter, Geralt of Rivia. It began with the publication of Last Wish (1990), and was completed with the publication of standalone prequel novel Season of Storms (2013). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrzej Sapkowski has received more than 3,354,856 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Andrzej Sapkowski is the 431st most popular writer (down from 355th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 71st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Writer.

Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish fantasy writer who is most famous for his Witcher series.

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Notable Works

Blood of elves
Fiction
Soon to be a major Netflix original series! The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, becomes the guardian of Ciri, surviving heiress of a bloody revolution and prophesied savior of the world, in the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Netflix series and the blockbuster video games. For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf. Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world -- for good, or for evil. As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat. Witcher novelsBlood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Tower of SwallowsLady of the LakeSeason of Storms Witcher collectionsThe Last WishSword of Destiny The Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only) Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok.
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Boży bojownicy
2002
Chrzest ognia
1996
Blood of Elves
Fiction
Soon to be a major Netflix original series! The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, becomes the guardian of Ciri, surviving heiress of a bloody revolution and prophesied savior of the world, in the first novel of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Netflix series and the blockbuster video games. For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf. Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world -- for good, or for evil. As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat. Witcher novelsBlood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Tower of SwallowsLady of the LakeSeason of Storms Witcher collectionsThe Last WishSword of Destiny The Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only) Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok.
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Ostatnie życzenie
1993
The Last Wish
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2007
Krew elfów
Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
Watch for the signs! What signs these shall be, I say unto you: first the earth will flow with the blood of Aen Seidhe, the Blood of Elves...For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world - for good, or for evil.As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all - and the Witcher never accepts defeat.Following The Last Wish, BLOOD OF ELVES is the new novel starring Geralt of Rivia, the inspiration for the critically-acclaimed videogame The Witcher.
1994
Wieża jaskółki
Slavic philology
The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous. There is only one place left to run. The tower of the swallow is waiting...
1997
Miecz przeznaczenia
Fiction, fantasy, general, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, fantasy, short stories
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection THE LAST WISH. Join Geralt as he battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike...
1992
Czas pogardy
Polish Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Monsters
Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to protect Ciri. A child of prophecy, she will have the power to change the world for good or for ill -- but only if she lives to use it. A coup threatens the Wizard's Guild. War breaks out across the lands. A serious injury leaves Geralt fighting for his life... ... and Ciri, in whose hands the world's fate rests, has vanished...
1995
Ostatnie Życzenie
Fantasy, Fiction, Translations into English
Pozycja, która przedstawia początki historii słynnego Geralta z Rivii. Sięgnij po tę lekturę i zanurz się w świecie, pełnym niebezpiecznych stworzeń, nierzadko napadających na ludzkie osady. "Ostatnie życzenie" to jeden ze zbiorów opowiadań z cyklu wiedźmińskiego, który zdobył ogromną popularność nie tylko w Polsce, ale i na całym świecie, między innymi za sprawą gry komputerowej, a następnie dzięki serialowi, wyprodukowanemu przez platformę Netflix. Główny bohater, Geralt z Rivii, jest wiedźminem, czyli osobą, która w zamian za wynagrodzenie, pozbywa się rozlicznych potworów. Działa według ściśle określonego systemu moralnego, dzieląc wszystko na to, co dobre i na to, co złe, nie uznając natomiast niczego pośrodku. Nie zabija, jeśli nie musi tego robić. Woli stawiać na uroki, które czasem też mogą rozwiązać problem. W trakcie swoich przygód poznaje piękną czarodziejkę, Yennefer, która wzbudza w nim fascynację. Jakie zlecenia czekają na niego w najbliższej przyszłości?
1993
Pani Jeziora
Heiresses, Wizards, Magic
"The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world ... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war"--
1999

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrzej Sapkowski ranks 431 out of 7,302. Before him are Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nadine Gordimer, Vladimir Vysotsky, Philip Roth, William of Rubruck, and Phaedrus. After him are Frank Herbert, Hector Malot, Al-Maʿarri, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kurt Vonnegut, and Louis Aragon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Andrzej Sapkowski ranks 23. Before him are Olivia Newton-John, Antonín Panenka, Henning Mankell, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Marcello Lippi, and Sven-Göran Eriksson. After him are Abdulrazak Gurnah, John R. Bolton, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Maurizio Gucci, Klaus Meine, and George Tupou V.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Andrzej Sapkowski ranks 83 out of 1,694. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Kurt Alder (1902), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761). After him are Carl Menger (1840), Robert Luther (1822), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Norbert Elias (1897), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), and Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Andrzej Sapkowski ranks 8. Before him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), and Gerhart Hauptmann (1862). After him are Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Christa Wolf (1929).

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