Blood of Elves (Polish: Krew elfów) is the first novel in The Witcher series written by the Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in Poland in 1994.[1] It is a sequel to the Witcher short stories collected in the books The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny and is followed by Time of Contempt. The book won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 1994[2] and the David Gemmell Legend Award in 2009.[3] An English translation was published in the United Kingdom in 2008 (Gollancz)[4] and in the United States in 2009 (Orbit).[5]