Celebrate author Andzrej Sapkowski's 75th birthday (b. June 21st, 1948) with me as we take a look at his life and career over the years.

From his Witcher stories and pentalogy from with which he shot to fame, to his critical works on Arthuriana, to his magnum opus of the Hussite Trilogy, to... trout fishing and role-playing games?! Learn about how AS's origins in Łódź's foreign trade and textile industry influenced his writing career, how airports and hotel rooms relate to his love of literature, and how he became a celebrated writer of the fantasy genre.

It's all here, folks, sit back and enjoy the complete and (almost) hour-and-a-half long biography and bibliography of your favorite author (or adversary, depending!).

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**TIMESTAMPS**

0:00 Introduction
0:58 Early Life
5:32 Textiles, Airports, and Fantasy
7:34 Family
9:34 Early Ventures (including "Witcher")
20:37 Witcher Komiks with Polch and Parowski
23:07 First Publications
27:55 Witcher Saga, or, Pentateuch
34:47 Column in Nowa Fantastyka
39:43 Essays & More (Arthuriana, Fantasy Genre)
56:34 Non-Witcher Short stories
58:58 Eye of Yrrhedes
1:02:29 Hussite Trilogy
1:07:00 Viper
1:10:30 Season of Storms
1:12:46 Abandoned Works
1:14:22 Present Day
1:19:25 Personal Reflections


**SOURCES**

Flamma, A. (2020). *Historia fenomenu*, Dolnośląskie. Print.
Nolen, L. (May 17, 2014). "The OF Blog: Andrzej Sapkowski, Víbora (Viper)." The OF Blog, Blogspot. Retrieved from http://ofblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/andrzej-sapkowski-vibora-viper.html in June 2023.
Sapkowski, A. (May 1993). "Piróg, or There is no Gold in the Gray Mountains," Nowa Fantastyka. Retrieved from https://www.reddit.com/r/wiedzmin/comments/ek0tyu/pir%C3%B3g_or_there_is_no_gold_in_gray_mountains/
Sapkowski, A. (2012). *Maladie i inne opowiadania*, SuperNOWA. Print.
Sapkowski, A. (2021). *Świat króla Artura*, SuperNOWA. Print.
Stanisław, B. (2001). Historia i fantastyka, SuperNOWA. PDF.
Wladdimir. (October 21, 2015). "ВЕДЬМАК (Fantastyka 12/51, 1986) (ч.3)" FantLab. Retrieved from https://fantlab.ru/blogarticle38695 in June 2023.
"Żmija by Andrzej Sapkowski | Goodreads," Goodreads. Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8714932-mija in June 2023.

Various interviews, columns, and articles retrieved from AS Zone (1980s to 2000s) https://sapkowskipl.wordpress.com/ and posts on the r/wiedzmin subreddit flaired with the "Sapkowski" flairhttps://www.reddit.com/r/wiedzmin/search?q=flair_name%3A%22Sapkowski%22. There are over 50 pages that I referenced on the AS Zone alone, so I will not be writing a citation for each individual page and post. If it's on either of these sites, I read it (via automatic translation) and it contributed to the making of this video.


**DISCLAIMERS**

Hi, my name is Nimue and welcome to my channel! I just want to say before we get started: I am not an expert, just a passionate fan inspired by Andrzej Sapkowski's career and his works, as well as by my fellow fans. When it comes to my abilities, I can only have the certainty of an Internet researcher armed with the Wayback Machine and DeepL translate (a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point). The point of this kind of video is to get people thinking and talking about the subject, not to take this video as the one-and-only source on the matter. I hope to make more videos in the future about the Witcher series and other Sapkowski-related topics, so I welcome feedback and constructive criticism on my videos.


**COPYRIGHT**

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