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Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting 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. A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography and possibly fantasy or science Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus ( Greek: Φλάβιος Πέτρος Σαββάτιος Ιουστινιανός; known in English as Justinian I or Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar (c 1040 Vivar, near Burgos &ndash 10 July 1099, Valencia) known as 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. Historical fantasy is a subgenre of Fantasy, related to Historical fiction.

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Biography

Kay was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population When Christopher Tolkien needed an assistant to edit his father J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished work, he chose Kay, then a student at the University of Manitoba, whose parents were friends of Baillie Tolkien's parents. Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born 21 November 1924 is the youngest son of the Author J The University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, is the largest university located in the province of Manitoba. Kay moved to Oxford in 1974 to assist Tolkien in the editing of The Silmarillion. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The Silmarillion is a collection of J R R Tolkien 's mythopoeic works edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in

He returned to Canada in 1976 to finish a law degree at the University of Toronto, and became interested in fiction writing. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus

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. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) The Summer Tree (1984 is the first novel of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. The Fionavar Tapestry is a Trilogy of Fantasy novels by Guy Gavriel Kay, set partly in our own contemporary world but mostly in the fictional

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Nominations, Awards, & Accolades

Interviews

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