And the sequels (both witcher 2 and even more so 3) made the brand a juggernaut in fantasy, which did push for book sales. I'd like to see some information on international translations and sales of the books before Witcher 2 and 3 released. I don't doubt that the dude may have been big in Poland, but that's a tiny market. This is something I have been pondering for a while. When I started The Witcher saga, one of the things that immediately caught my eye was the writing, which for me is nothing short of superb, not necesarily in the overarching story of the book, but in how Sapkowski "paints" the different scenes, characters and dialogues. We reached out to Andrzej Sapkowski, creator of The Witcher, to get his thoughts on the series and the fan resurgence it’s inspired. His answers were surprising. In this industry, you end up Between the book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, Netflix’s ever-growing television franchise, and the mega hit video games from CD Projekt Red, The Witcher is easily one of the I still managed to find the examples of a gender imbalance, which unfortunately I’ve come to expect from a Sapkowski book about the Witcher. Geralt is a good man, and someone who tries to treat everyone equally, but there were still instances in the general writing of it. If you still haven’t seen enough of the Continent after watching the Netflix show, reading Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, and adventuring your way through the games, there’s even more Witcher David French (born 1962) is a translator from Polish to English, specialising in literary translation, movie screenplays and subtitles. He has been translating books from Andrzej Sapkowski's bestselling Witcher series since 2012. David is a former English teacher. He learned Polish as an adult and is based in Poland. Like. “Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”. ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish. tags: good-evil-choice. The success of The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski – impressive print runs, dozens of translations, the world-famous video games, a comic book series, and now also a keenly-awaited Netflix show – might blind us to an important fact: at the very source of it all, there is not some efficient marketing campaign, a cleverly-engineered fad, or massive promotional funding, but brilliant writing and fMRT.