Although CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Badowski says it's all a front, the grumpiness of Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski is legendary. This is the guy whose advice to novice writers was "Learn something that is worth doing. For example, repairing computers. That makes money. Forget about writing, it's [a] hard business." And as for his attitude towards the phenomenally popular game series? "I have no time for this."
Which, I have to be honest, I find immensely charming. Here's a man with no patience for nonsense. But perhaps even Sapkowski cracked a smile when he learnt he was getting Poland's Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, which the country's Ministry of Culture hands out to artists who have made major contributions to its heritage.
