| Guy Gavriel KayAlso known as: Guy Kay, Guy Kay, Guy G. Kay, Kay Gavriel, Gavriel Kay, Guy Gavriel ... (see complete list), Guy Gavirl Kay, Guy Gabriel Kay, Guy Garriel Kay, Guy Gauriel Kay, Guy Gavriel Ray, Guy Gavreil Kay, Guy Garviel Kay, Gavriel Guy Kay, Guy Gavriel Kay, Kay Gavriel Guy, Gut Gavriel Kay, Gay Gavriel Kay, Kay Guy Gavriel, Guy Gavriel Kaye | 13,677 | 279 |  (4.13) | 0 | 0 |
- Tigana 1969 copies, 55 reviews
- The Summer Tree 1772 copies, 33 reviews
- The Wandering Fire 1493 copies, 21 reviews
- The Lions of Al-Rassan 1471 copies, 30 reviews
- The Darkest Road 1443 copies, 20 reviews
- A Song for Arbonne 1303 copies, 17 reviews
- Sailing to Sarantium 1148 copies, 19 reviews
- Lord of Emperors 947 copies, 17 reviews
- Last Light of the Sun 937 copies, 20 reviews
- Ysabel 809 copies, 41 reviews
- The Fionavar Tapestry 215 copies, 2 reviews
- Beyond This Dark House 52 copies, 4 reviews
- Tigana. Osa 2: Verenperinnön hinta 38 copies
- Tigana 34 copies
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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 When Christopher Tolkien needed an assistant to edit his father J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished work, he chose Kay, then a student at the University of Manitoba, whose parents were friends of Baillie Tolkien's parents.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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