Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish fantasy writer, essayist, translator and a trained economist. He is best known for his six-volume series of books The Witcher, which revolves around the eponymous "witcher," a monster-hunter, Geralt of Rivia. It began with the publication of Sword of Destiny (1992), and was completed with the publication of standalone prequel novel Season of Storms (2013). The saga has been popularized through television, stage, comic books, video games and translated into 37 languages making him the second most-translated Polish science fiction and fantasy writer after Stanisław Lem.
Sapkowski at Lucca Comics & Games 2015
Sapkowski novels on display occupying two shelves at an Empik bookstore in Katowice, Poland
Andrzej Sapkowski at the 2010 World Book Fair in Prague, Czech Republic
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fantasy world and usually inspired by mythology or folklore. The term "fantasy" can also be used to describe a "work of this genre", usually literary.
The Fairy of the Dawn in The Violet Fairy Book (1906)
Skeleton Fantasy Show (骷髏幻戲圖) by Li Song (1190–1264)
Another illustration from The Violet Fairy Book (1906)
Illustration from 1920 edition of George MacDonald's novel The Princess and the Goblin