Andrzej Sapkowski

Polish novelist (born 1948)

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Born 1948 · age 78

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55 languages
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Age
78
Born 1948
Known for
The Hexer
2001

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Updated 2026-06-09

He built a monster-hunting world so thoroughly textured that it escaped the page — first into Polish folklore-tinged fantasy novels, then into a video game juggernaut that made Geralt of Rivia more recognizable than most literary heroes of the last thirty years.

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Andrzej Sapkowski was born 21 June 1948 in Poland and became a fantasy writer who wove Slavic mythology into his fiction with enough specificity that readers called him the "Polish Tolkien." His Witcher saga — novels and short stories tracking the monster hunter Geralt of Rivia — has sold over 30 million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and made him the second most-translated Polish SF/fantasy writer after Stanisław Lem. The books jumped media: video games, television, stage, comics. He's won the Zajdel Award five times, Poland's top genre prize, along with the David Gemmell Award, t…

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