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For the book found within The Witcher computer game, see The Last Wish (in game).

Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
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The Last Wish (Polish: Ostatnie życzenie) is the first book in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series in terms of internal chronology, although the original Polish edition was published in 1993, after The Sword of Destiny. Some of the individual short stories were first published in the Fantastyka magazine or in the Wiedźmin short story collection (the first collection of Sapkowski's stories, out of print and now obsolete; all short stories were later collected in The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny and Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna) and as such were the first witcher stories published.

Contents

Stories included Edit

The anthology employs the story within a story framework and contains seven main short stories.

Geralt, after having been injured in battle, rests in a temple of Melitele in Ellander. During that time he has flashbacks to recent events in his life — each of which forms a story of its own.

TranslationsEdit

The book has been translated into Czech, Russian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Serbian and Traditional Chinese in addition to English.

The Last Wish was the first of the Witcher's stories to be translated in English. The Last Wish was published in the United Kingdom by Gollancz [1] in 2007 and in the United States by Orbit in April 2008.

  • Bulgarian: Вещерът. Последното желание (ИнфоДар, 2008)
  • Czech: Zaklínač I — Poslední přání (Leonardo, 1999)
  • Dutch: De Laatste Wens (Dutch Media Uitgevers, 2010)
  • English: The Last Wish, translated by Danusia Stok (UK — Gollancz, 2007, US — Orbit, 2008)
  • French: Le Dernier Vœu (2003)
  • German: Der letzte Wunsch
  • Italian: Il Guardiano degli Innocenti (Nord, 2010)
  • Korean: 위처:이성의 목소리 (제우미디어, 2011)
  • Lithuanian: Paskutinis noras (Eridanas, 2005)
  • Polish: Ostatnie życzenie (SuperNOWA, 1993)
  • Portugese: O Último Desejo (Livros do Brasil, 2005)
  • Russian: Последнее желание, translated by Евгений Вайсброт (АСТ, 1996)
  • Spanish: El último deseo, translated by Jose María Faraldo (Bibliópolis fantástica, 2002)
  • Serbian: Последња жеља/Poslednja želja, translated by Olivera Duskov and Milan Duskov (IPS 2009)
  • Finnish: Viimeinen toivomus, translated by Tapani Kärkkäinen (WSOY 2010)
  • Swedish: Den sista önskningen.
  • Hungarian: Vaják I. - Az utolsó kívánság translated by Szathmáry-Kellermann Viktória (PlayON 2011)
  • Traditional Chinese: 獵魔士 - 最後的願望, translated by 林蔚昀 (蓋亞文化, 2011)

Audio versions Edit

There are two audio versions of The Last Wish available in Polish. Classic audiobook, lasting about 11 hours and read by Roch Siemianowski, was released by superNOWA (Polish publisher of Sapkowski’s works) in 1996. In 2011, after huge success of audio play based on Sapkowski’s Narrenturm, Fonopolis and audioteka.pl released audio plays based on The Last Wish and Miecz przeznaczenia. The Las Wish, lasting about 12 hours, was voiced by 52 actors, including Krzysztof Banaszyk (Vernon Roche in Assassins of Kings) as Geralt, Anna Dereszowska as Yennefer, Sławimir Pacek (minor characters in video games) as Dandelion and Krzysztof Gosztyła as narrator. Samples from all short stories can be found on audioteka.pl’s site.

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The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski
Short story collections
Wiedźmin (obsolete) | The Last Wish | Miecz przeznaczenia (The Sword of Destiny) | Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna (Something Ends, Something Begins)
Novels
Blood of Elves | Times of Contempt | Chrzest Ognia (Baptism by Fire) | Wieża Jaskółki (The Tower of the Swallow) | Pani Jeziora (The Lady of the Lake)
Adaptations
Wiedźmin (graphic novels) | The Hexer (movie & TV series) | Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni (PnP RPG) | The Witcher] (video game) | The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (video game) | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (video game)

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