The Witcher Saga's Latest Installment Set to Release by the End of 2024, According to Sapkowski

Earlier this year, renowned Polish author and creator of "The Witcher" saga, Andrzej Sapkowski, revealed that he is working on a new book featuring Geralt of Rivia, and it will be released very soon. Initially, he mentioned it would happen "within a year, no more." Now, the author has provided a more precise date — the end of 2024, as reported by Redanian Intelligence.

The book is expected to be released in Polish in Poland by the specified time, with translations into English and other languages slated for early 2025 on the international market. It's worth noting that Sapkowski himself emphasized in 2018 that the story of Geralt's adventures concluded with the book "Lady of the Lake." Therefore, the upcoming book may potentially be a prequel, as Sapkowski hinted.

"The story is finished, the saga is complete, so if I suddenly write something in the Witcher universe, and I certainly intend to do so, it will probably be something like a prequel or a sidequel. Not a sequel," Sapkowski mentioned in 2018.

As for his work on the new book, the author joked that he was forced to do it.

"They made a series based on one short story. They made me continue. I'm not complaining. Thanks to that, I now have money for rent," Sapkowski sarcastically remarked.

In late October, the renowned French author Marc Levy visited Warsaw to present his new book about Ukraine titled "The Symphony of Monsters" ("La Symphonie des monstres"). Released on October 17, this novel tells the story of a missing child from the village of Rykove in southern Ukraine, located approximately 50 kilometers from the administrative border with Crimea. The 9-year-old Ukrainian boy named Valentin is abducted by Russian military and sent to so-called "reeducation camps." To write the novel, Marc Levy used various sources, including visiting Kyiv and meeting with the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets.

Levy portrays the protagonist of the novel as mute, considering the child a "symbol of his country, the incredible submission of Ukrainians, and their unwavering will to resist." In this way, the author aims to draw even more attention to the war in Ukraine. He also noted that if popular writers wrote about Nazism in 1933, some Germans at that time might have looked at things differently.