However, reaction from readers was overwhelmingly positive and Sapkowski wrote more stories in response to their demand. Sapkowski feels that his work was the best in the competition, but the jurors relegated it to third because fantasy was considered to be for children at the time in Poland. Submitting "The Witcher" (1986), he had to wait about a year for the results, and came in third place. He decided to enter a short story competition, limited to 30-pages, held by Polish science fiction and fantasy magazine Fantastyka. In 1985, Andrzej Sapkowski was a 38-year-old traveling fur salesman with an economics degree and a love of fantasy literature. The Tower of the Swallow ( Wieża Jaskółki) ( August 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this section by introducing more precise citations. This section includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. The video games have been even more successful, with more than 50 million copies sold as of May 2020. They have also been adapted into a film ( The Hexer), two television series ( The Hexer and The Witcher), a trilogy of video games ( The Witcher, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), and a graphic novel series. They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. The books have been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries.
A standalone prequel novel, Season of Storms, was published in 2013. Known as The Witcher Saga, he wrote one book a year until the fifth and final installment in 1999. Due to reader demand, Sapkowski wrote 14 more stories before starting a series of novels in 1994. The Witcher began with a titular 1986 short story that Sapkowski entered into a competition held by Fantastyka magazine, marking his debut as an author. In Sapkowski's works, "witchers" are beast hunters who develop supernatural abilities at a young age to battle wild beasts and monsters.
The series revolves around the eponymous "witcher," Geralt of Rivia.
The Witcher ( Polish: Wiedźmin, pronounced ) is a series of six fantasy novels and 15 short stories written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
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