The Witcher - Kultura 2.0 Blog

The Witcher site is pointing out the blog of one Henry Jenkins -- director of the Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- who has blogged about a conference held in Warsaw called Kultura 2.0 that included author Andrzej Sapkowski and The Witcher.  The article doesn't introduce anything new about the game but does talk about Sapkowski's background as an author and may be of interest to fans.  Here's a sample:

The Witcher universe was first introduced in a series of short stories primarily published in Nowa Fantastyka. As Sapkowski explained during the public conversation, Polish publishers were, at that time, reprinting fantasy works from England, including the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, which were tremendously popular in Poland, but had been resistant to the idea of original fantasy fiction by Polish authors, convinced that it would not interest their readers. Sapowski's work helped to break open the market for Polish produced fantasy and horror fiction. The short stories led to a series of five novels which are known casually as The Witcher series and officially as Blood of the Elves. These stories and novels were, in turn, adopted and expanded into a comic book series (1993-1995), a feature film (2001) and a 13 episode television serial (2002).