Interview with Mr. Andrzej Sapkowski!

Employees of the Mint of Gdańsk conducted an interesting interview with Mr. Andrzej Sapkowski! We are pleased that we had the opportunity to ask a few questions, including personal ones, to the author of the Witcher saga. Mr. Sapkowski also spoke about our coins with the Witcher, in the design of which he took part. 

We invite you to read! 

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Mint of Gdansk: Are you a fulfilled man?

Andrzej Sapkowski:  In my opinion, no one, regardless of the actual situation, should consider themselves completely and completely fulfilled. How is that supposed to happen? That this is the end? Nothing more to do? Lie down on your laurels and lie down like this? On the other hand, I am 72 years old. So somebody might ask: if you're not fulfilled, what the hell have you been doing for 70 years?

  

M.G.: Is there anything you dream of?

A.S.: There are so many things like that. But it's a private matter, to no one, excusez moi, nothing to do with it.

 

M.G.: Do you ever feel lonely?

A.S.: No.

  

M.G.: What's the most important thing in life?

A.S.: The list is very long. To top it all off, something is added to the list.

  

M.G.: What is your greatest success in life?

A.S.: I've been waiting for this to come.

 

M.G.: What's your biggest failure?

A.S.: Next question, please.

 

M.G.: How do you spend your free time?

A.S.: I read books, a lot. About half a hundred titles a year. I cook. Sometimes I will go fishing. Sometimes I answer questions from interviews, brr, terribleness.

 

M.G.: How many hours a day do you work?

A.S.: Two. Or maybe not. Working Life Shortens Life.

 

M.G.: What would you change in our world?

A.S.: All over the world? So that everyone can be happy. With us, in Poland? I can't say, because it is punishable by criminal law. 

  

M.G.: Fame helps or hinders?

A.S.: I don't understand the question. For clarification: I deliberately do not understand.

 

M.G.: Where did the whole hatred on the Internet come from about you? 

A.S.: Hetred does not have access to me, because I do not visit on the Internet places where it occurs. I despise haters as a whole deeply. In the past, writing chalk on the wall of JOHNNY IS STUIPD required activity, effort and courage, because there was a threat of consequences, even in the form of a mandate or the fact that the said Johnny will kick his ass. Today, the Internet haters is a pimple slugger and, in his own opinion, a coward with no punishment, spitting vitriol on the monitor and pouring dandruff into the keyboard. So contemptible zero. 

  

M.G.: What are you really like? I will ask for 3 qualities :) 

A.S.: Outstandingly intelligent, erudite, polyglot, extremely handsome, loving animals, people and women, officer and gentleman, sportsman practicing weightlifting and pole jumping, piano virtuoso, alpine horn and bagpipe, Latin American dancer, cemetery bursar, garbage sorting, honorable blood donor, regularly paying off debts, including card debt... I'm sorry, but I didn't start it. You shouldn't have provoked.

 

M.G.: What is it like to be a creator, to create the world from scratch?

A.S.: Cool.

  

M.G.: And what are your feelings for the novel itself? Do you remember working on it after many years as a pleasant experience?

A.S.: It's been different, it'd come out like a sine wave. But to the balance I do not complain and bet a plus.

 

M.G.: Is it possible to write a good fantasy novel in which the relationships between beings will be completely different from the relationships we know and the relationships between people?

A.S.: Writing doesn't know the term "impossible". In the case of the SF/fantasy writer, such a question is completely out of place. The writer of SF/fantasy and the "impossible" is contradictio in adiecto.

  

M.G.: And would you change any of your decisions taken in connection with the functioning of the Witcher on the market?

A.S.: All of them, every one of them. Each time it's better.

  

M.G.: What are books for you? Can you live without them?

A.S.: You can live. But then it gets damn boring. And if you don't read it permanently, there is a danger that you will become a second dimwit and a breaker. A close look around or turning on the television will reveal a lot of such things, that is, a quod erat demonstrandum.

 

M.G.: What is cinema, especially the attempt to adapt your works?

A.S.: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe to ask the filmmakers?

 

M.G.: What are computer games about the Witcher? Do they have a positive or negative impact on people?

A.S.: I don't play computer games so I don't know what their impact is on anything and if there is any at all. Philosophically it should be assumed that in any case more depends on people than on games.

  

M.G.: What do you think of the Witcher coins? As an economist.

A.S.: Don't think you're not being judged. The biblical economist said.

 

M.G.: What was your first reaction to the idea of the Mint of Gdansk to mint coins referring to the novel?

A.S.: It was positive. If it had been different, there would have been no killing..

  

M.G.: Which ultimately led you to agree to cooperate?

A.S.: See above.

  

M.G.: How long did the negotiations with the Mint of Gdansk last?

A.S.: Not for long. I didn't manage to get bored.

 

M.G.: How do you cooperate with the Mint of Gdansk?

A.S.: It's bearable.

  

M.G.: Will the coins about the Witcher also reach you?

A.S.: Yeah, of course.

 

M.G.: Would the images of coins be accepted in the Witcher's universe?

A.S.: If I write about it, yes. But I don't know if I will write.

  

M.G.: Did Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer deserve a coin with their own image?

A.S.: If such coins are or will be, I guess so.

 

M.G.: Which of the heroes in your stories should not be placed on the coin?

A.S.: I don't have that kind of.

 

M.G.: And which heroes in the background should be appreciated and appear on the coin?

A.S.: I don't have.

 

M.G.: Will your image appear on any of the coins in the series?

A.S.: No. Well, possibly posthumously.

 

M.G.: We know that you have contributed to the creation of the images of coins and you have commented on them. You are satisfied with the final result?

A.S.: Yes.

 

M.G.: Which coin of the first issue of "Last Wish" you like more: 2 oz Ag or 1 kg Ag?

A.S.: They're both great..

 

M.G.: It's a humorous accent. Apparently in the original version of the 2 oz coin design your name was supposed to appear on the right side of the coin - next to the genie, which might suggest that this character is you :) is it true?

A.S.: If that's what you call a city, then I guess it is.

 

Author: Marta Szeląg