![]() ![]() His debut novella "Wiedźmin" (December 1986 Fantastyka trans Danusia Stok as "The Witcher" and Michael Kandel as "Spellmaker" – see Checklist) won third prize in the magazine's second short story competition, inaugurating the highly successful Witcher series of stories, novellas and novels about Geralt of Rivia, a professional exterminator of Monsters and Supernatural Creatures, whose extraordinary abilities and fighting skills are the result of laborious and controversial controlled mutations and ruthless training. For over two decades prior to taking up a full-time writing career, he worked in foreign trade and his knowledge of foreign languages (particularly Russian, English and German) allowed him to discover much Anglophone fantasy and sf unavailable in Polish in the 1970s. Sapkowski was born and raised in Łódź, a major industrial centre whose multicultural character and tradition (until World War Two it was populated by Poles, Jews, Germans, Russians and even Czechs) seems to have shaped his artistic sensibility. (1948- ) Polish Fantasy author who has published only two sf stories, but whose work has become first nationally then internationally nearly as successful as that of Stanisław Lem and had an unprecedented impact on Polish Fantastika of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. ![]()
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