Andrzej Sapkowski born June 21 1948 in d is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer Sapkowski studied economics and before turning to writing he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company His first short story The Witcher Wied min was published in Fantastyka Polands leading fantasy literary magazine in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher comprising three collections of short stories and five novels This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s. The main character of The Witcher alternative translation The Hexer is Geralt Andrzej Sapkowski born June 21 1948 in d is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer Sapkowski studied economics and before turning to writing he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company His first short story The Witcher Wied min was published in Fantastyka Poland s leading fantasy literary magazine in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher comprising three collections of short stories and five novels This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s. The main character of The Witcher alternative translation The Hexer is Geralt a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics At the same time cynical and noble Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler s signature character Philip Marlowe The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology. Sapkowski has won five Zajdel Awards including three for short stories Mniejsze z o Lesser Evil 1990 Miecz przeznaczenia Sword of Destiny 1992 and W leju po bombie In a Bomb Crater 1993 and two for the novels Krew elf w Blood of Elves 1994 and Narrenturm 2002 He also won the Spanish Ignotus Award best anthology for The Last Wish in 2003 and for Muzykanci The Musicians best foreign short story same year. In 2001 a Television Series based on the Witcher cycle was released in Poland and internationally entitled Wied min The Hexer A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures. Sapkowski s books have been translated into Czech Russian Lithuanian German Spanish French Ukrainian and Portuguese An English translation of The Last Wish short story collection was published by Gollancz in 2007. The Polish game publisher CD Projekt created a role playing PC game based on this universe called The Witcher which was released in October 2007 There is also a mobile version of the game which has been created by Breakpoint Games and is being published by Hands On Mobile in Western EuropeLatin America and Asia Pacific. The English translation of Sapkowski s novel Blood of Elves won the David Gemmell Legends Award in 2009 site_link Contient une histoire du Sorceleur L histoire des parents de Geralt de Riv la l gende revisit e de Tristan et Iseult l ombre d Alice et de son fameux Chat du Cheshire ou encore les sorci res de Salem version Fantasy d couvrez plusieurs r cits in dits du p re de la c l bre saga du Sorceleur crits diff rentes p riodes de sa vie et abordant des th mes vari s Chacune des nouvelles est pr c d e d un avant propos de l auteur qui livre de mani re cocasse et spirituelle les secrets de son travail d criture et les circonstances dans lesquelles ces histoires ont vu le jour Un m lange de Fantasy pure d humour acerbe et d observations spirituelles Time La Route d o l on ne revient pas et autres r cits Fantasy French Edition
| La Route d'où l'on ne revient pas et autres récits (Fantasy) (French Edition) By Andrzej Sapkowski |
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.. In 1997 Sapkowski won the prestigious Polityka s Passport award which is awarded annually to artists who have strong prospects for international success