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The Witcher series has been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. [45] [46] They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. [38] Two weeks after the Netflix TV adaptation was released in 2020, revenue from the books was reportedly up 562% compared to the same period in 2018. [47] Entries in The Witcher series have earned Sapkowski the Janusz A. Zajdel Award three times; "The Lesser Evil" (1990), "Sword of Destiny" (1992), and Blood of Elves (1994). [48] The Last Wish won the 2003 Premio Ignotus for Best Anthology in Spain. [49] In the United Kingdom, Blood of Elves won Best Novel at the first David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy in 2009. [50] Sword of Destiny won the 2012 Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. [51] The first book to be published in the series, Sword of Destiny, similar to The Last Wish is a collection of short stories following the many adventures of mutated monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia. It continues to chronicle Geralt's adventures but also introduces the character of Ciri, a young princess who is arguably the most important character in the entire saga. The concluding story of the novel perfectly sets the stage for the remaining saga to come. Blood of Elves (1994) The Witcher Saga: has Netflix found its Game of Thrones?". Telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2017. Archived from the original on June 22, 2018 . Retrieved March 9, 2018.
Sapkowski, Andrzej (March 6, 2014). Baptism of Fire: Witcher 3 – Now a major Netflix show. Orion. ISBN 978-0-575-09098-9. Sapkowski chose wiedźmin as the male equivalent of the Polish word for witch ( wiedźma). [39] In his book 2005 book-interview Historia i fantastyka, Sapkowski noted that the word "witcher" is a natural male version of the English word "witch", and implied that the similarity between those two words, as well as between the German terms, was the inspiration coining wiedźmin as a new Polish word. [39] Polish video game designer Adrian Chmielarz claimed to have invented the translation of wiedźmin into English as witcher around 1996–1997. [40]
a b Brown, Fraser (May 29, 2020). "The Witcher series hits 50 million sales". PC Gamer . Retrieved February 14, 2021. In 2015, Platige Image planned an American film adaptation of the novel series to arrive in 2017. [67] In May 2017, they announced that they would be producing a The Witcher TV series in cooperation with Netflix and Sean Daniel Company, with Tomasz Bagiński as one of the directors and Sapkowski as a creative consultant. [68] [69] [70] Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, it stars Henry Cavill as Geralt. [71] [72] [73] [74] On October 10, 2018, it was announced that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra had been cast as main female characters, Ciri and Yennefer. [75] The first season was released on December 20, 2019, with all eight episodes available. [76] A second season was announced on November 13, 2019. [77] All eight episodes were released on December 17, 2021, featuring many of the same characters and some new stars. [78] In September 2021, Netflix renewed the series for a third season. [79] Starting in the show's fourth season, Liam Hemsworth is scheduled to replace Cavill as Geralt. Flood, Alison (June 19, 2009). "Gemmell prize for fantasy goes to Polish novel, Blood of Elves". The Guardian . Retrieved March 8, 2022. After what he called a chance meeting, Sapkowski made a deal in 1990 with SuperNowa to publish the series. [14] They released the second short story collection, Sword of Destiny, in 1992. The Last Wish was published by SuperNowa in 1993 to replace The Witcher as the first book, and includes all of its stories except "The Road with No Return" (the only story without Geralt). [15] Although new short stories were also added to The Last Wish, they chronologically take place before those in Sword of Destiny.
Purchese, Robert (November 27, 2014). "The Witcher Adventure Game has been released". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 . Retrieved November 27, 2014. Opowieści ze świata wiedźmina (antologia) – literatura.gildia.pl – książki, recenzje, artykuły, nowości". Literatura.gildia.pl. Archived from the original on January 4, 2018 . Retrieved January 3, 2018.Péter Apor (2008). Past for the eyes: East European representations of communism in cinema and museums after 1989. Central European University Press. p.198. ISBN 978-963-9776-05-0. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014 . Retrieved May 28, 2011. iMeshup (November 29, 2018). "Gamedev glory: "The Witcher" and CD Projekt Red". iMeshup . Retrieved November 21, 2021. Yennefer of Vengerberg (Polish: Yennefer z Vengerbergu) first appeared in the collection of short stories, The Last Wish, featuring in the short story of the same name. She is a powerful sorceress, is a mother figure to Ciri, and becomes Geralt's lover. As an avid reader of fantasy, Sapkowski said he was sometimes bored and disgusted with stories in which the hero could easily have sex with any woman he wished, so he created Yennefer to "complicate things a little" as a woman character who refuses to be a fantasy cliché. [14] In the Polish 2002 film and 2002 TV series, she was played by Grażyna Wolszczak and by Anya Chalotra in the Netflix series. The Witcher ( Polish: Wiedźmin, pronounced [ˈvjɛd͡ʑmin]) is a series of six fantasy novels and 15 short stories written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series revolves around the eponymous "witcher", Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's works, "witchers" are beast hunters who are given supernatural abilities at a young age to battle wild beasts and monsters. 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. Due to reader demand, Sapkowski wrote 14 more stories before starting a series of novels in 1994. Known as The Witcher Saga, he wrote one book a year until the fifth and final installment in 1999. A standalone prequel novel, Season of Storms, was published in 2013. The Witcher Adventure Game – Board Game". BoardGameGeek. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016 . Retrieved April 28, 2016.
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