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Guy Gavriel Kay

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Om författaren

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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Guy Gavriel Kay

Tigana (1990) 5,017 exemplar
Offerträdet (1984) 4,004 exemplar
The Lions of al-Rassan (1995) 3,184 exemplar
Den brinnande stenen (1986) 3,088 exemplar
Son av ljus och mörker (1986) 2,973 exemplar
A Song for Arbonne (1992) 2,706 exemplar
Sailing to Sarantium (1998) 2,547 exemplar
Ysabel (2007) 1,975 exemplar
Solens sista strålar (2004) 1,972 exemplar
Lord of Emperors (2000) 1,928 exemplar
Under Heaven (2010) 1,892 exemplar
River of Stars (2013) 806 exemplar
Children of Earth and Sky (2016) 753 exemplar
Fionavars vävnad (1986) 613 exemplar
A Brightness Long Ago (2019) 599 exemplar

Associerade verk

Silmarillion (1977) — Editorial assistant — 34,703 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Födelsedag
1954-11-07
Kön
male
Nationalitet
Canada (birth)
Födelseort
Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Bostadsorter
Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Utbildning
University of Manitoba
University of Toronto
Yrken
editor
Associate Producer (radio)
writer (radio)
fantasy writer
Priser och utmärkelser
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)
Kort biografi
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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Diskussioner

Guy Kay - where to start and other discussion i The Green Dragon (april 2013)
Tigana Spoiler Thread: Fantasy February Group Read i 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (februari 2013)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay: Fantasy February Group Read i 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (februari 2013)
For Guy Kay fans i FantasyFans (juni 2012)
Group Read (March): Guy Gavriel Kay i The 11 in 11 Category Challenge (april 2011)

Recensioner

I've seen negative reviews of this book (but I hadn't seen them when I bought it), but I hadn't read anything by Kay yet, so I wasn't disappointed. Maybe it's because I didn't have anything to compare it to, but in any case I liked it. Well, maybe I should specify that I wasn't too thrilled with the characters, but the setting and the plot were both great.
 
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Milena Benini Translator
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Greg Banning Cover artist
Holter Graham Narrator
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Statistik

Verk
31
Även av
1
Medlemmar
34,765
Popularitet
#543
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
1,005
ISBN
499
Språk
19
Favoritmärkt
319

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