{"id":89854,"date":"2026-09-21T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89854"},"modified":"2026-09-21T12:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:38:19","slug":"andrzej-sapkowski-talks-new-witcher-books-future-adaptations-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89854","title":{"rendered":"Andrzej Sapkowski Talks New Witcher Books, Future Adaptations, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest Witcher<\/a> novel, Crossroads of Ravens, finally arrived in English last September, giving fans their first proper look at Geralt of Rivia’s earliest days as a monster hunter.<\/p>\n

I personally loved it, which probably won’t come as much of a surprise given I’ve been eager to badger Andrzej Sapkowski with questions ever since I first picked up The Last Wish many moons ago.<\/p>\n

Well, I finally got my<\/em> wish.<\/p>\n

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Sapkowski, the creator and author of The Witcher books<\/a>, over email, alongside David French, the English translator of Crossroads of Ravens.<\/p>\n

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See at Amazon UK<\/a> – \u00a39.49 (was \u00a310.99)See at Amazon US<\/a> – $15 (was $20)<\/p>\n

And, perhaps unsurprisingly, Sapkowski is every bit as sharp and disarmingly honest as you’d expect, with a wonderfully dry wit and a talent for delivering remarkably incisive answers. There’s a scholarly flair to his responses, defined by a penchant for weaving classical Latin phrasing in wherever possible\u2014a habit his English translator, David French, has also playfully dubbed “linguistic snobbery.” Ha!<\/p>\n

As a longtime fan, I’m delighted by the interview with both gentlemen, and I can’t wait to share it.<\/p>\n

We discussed (amongst plenty of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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