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. Sapkowski has won five Zajdel Awards, including three for short stories 'Mniejsze zło' (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 elfów' (Blood of Elves) (1994) and 'Narrenturm' (2002). The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. 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. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels.

His first short story, The Witcher ( Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. OL20685854W Page_number_confidence 98.23 Pages 566 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211012153044 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 403 Scandate 20211011114418 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316273831 Tts_version 4.Andrzej Sapkowski, born Jin Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:44:29 Associated-names French, David (Translator), translator Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40258304 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ladyoflake0000sapk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7wn3vv6x Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780316273831Ġ31627383X Lccn 2017000255 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9523 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000196 Openlibrary_edition

Lady of the lake by andrzej sapkowski