Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel Kay was born on November 7, 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. He became interested in fantasy fiction while working as an assistant to Christopher Tolkien. He assisted him with the editing of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. After receiving a law degree from the University of mehr anzeigen Toronto, he became principal writer and associate producer for the CBC radio series, The Scales of Justice. He also wrote several episodes when the series moved to television. He has written social and political commentary for several publications including the National Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian. His first fantasy novels were The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road, which make up the Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy. His other works include A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, Beyond This Dark House, The Last Light of the Sun, and Under Heaven. He has received numerous awards including and the Aurora Award for Tigana and The Wandering Fire, the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Ysabel, and the International Goliardos Award for his work in the fantasy field. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Fionavar Tapestry 1. The Summer Tree 2. The Wandering Fire 3. The Darkest Road (1986) 616 Exemplare
Darkest road, The 1 Exemplar
Un éclat d'antan (French Edition) 1 Exemplar
Wielka ucieczka 1 Exemplar
Comme un diamant dans ma mémoire 1 Exemplar
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- Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Geburtstag
- 1954-11-07
- Geschlecht
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- Nationalität
- Kanada
- Geburtsort
- Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Kanada
- Wohnorte
- Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Ausbildung
- University of Manitoba
University of Toronto - Berufe
- editor
Associate Producer (radio)
writer (radio)
fantasy writer - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (2000)
Scales of Justice Award (best media treatment of a legal issue, Canadian Law Reform Commission, 1985)
Guest of Honor, Vericon, Cambridge, MA (2007) - Kurzbiographie
- Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Those works are published and marketed as historical fantasy, though the author himself has expressed a preference to shy away from genre categorization when possible. Kay was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When Christopher Tolkien needed an assistant to edit his father J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished work, he chose Kay, then a student at the University of Manitoba, whose parents were friends of Baillie Tolkien's parents. Kay moved to Oxford in 1974 to assist Tolkien in the editing of The Silmarillion.
He returned to Canada in 1976 to finish a law degree at the University of Toronto, and became interested in fiction writing.
Kay became Principal Writer and Associate Producer for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series, The Scales of Justice.
In 1984, Kay's first fantasy work, The Summer Tree, the first volume of the trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, was published.
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Guy Kay - where to start and other discussion in The Green Dragon (April 2013)
Tigana Spoiler Thread: Fantasy February Group Read in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Februar 2013)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay: Fantasy February Group Read in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Februar 2013)
For Guy Kay fans in FantasyFans (Juni 2012)
Group Read (March): Guy Gavriel Kay in The 11 in 11 Category Challenge (April 2011)
The Lions of Al Rassan (in part assumes you've read it...) in The Green Dragon (Januar 2010)
Book Discussion: A Song for Arbonne ~CAUTION ~ Contains SPOILERS in The Green Dragon (Juli 2009)
Book Discussion: A Song for Arbonne - SPOILER FREE Thread in The Green Dragon (Juli 2009)
Tigana discussion! Part Four: The Price of Blood in The Green Dragon (Juli 2008)
At last, it is time to begin discussing Tigana! Part One Discussion in The Green Dragon (Juni 2008)
Book Discussion: Arthurian Themed Read *Spoiler Free* in The Green Dragon (März 2008)
Tigana Part Five Discussion: THE MEMORY OF A FLAME in The Green Dragon (Februar 2007)
Tigana Part Three Discussion: EMBER TO EMBER in The Green Dragon (Oktober 2006)
Tigana Part Two - Dianora - discuss in The Green Dragon (Oktober 2006)
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