Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay ( born November 7, 1954, in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada ) is a Canadian fantasy author.
Kay studied law and philosophy. He worked from 1974 to 1975 with Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR Tolkien, on the editing of the Silmarillion. In 1984 he published the first volume of the trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry.
For The Wandering Fire and Tigana Kay received 1987 and 1991 the Canadian science fiction and fantasy prize " Aurora ". In 2008 he won the World Fantasy Award for Ysabel in the category " Best Novel " and the 2011 Sunburst Award for Under Heaven.
Works
Many of Kay's works are characterized by a combination of fantasy elements and historical details of what he prefers as a narrative technique. His work on Late Antiquity ( Sarantine Mosaic ), the European Middle Ages ( Lions of Al- Rassan and Last Light of the Sun) or the Renaissance period ( Tigana ) are content oriented. The novels Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emperors, Lions of Al- Rassan and Last Light of the Sun play in the same fictional world in which after the fall of the Empire of Rhodia's ( Roman Empire ) created several successor kingdoms and the main religions of Jad (Christianity) and Ashar (Islam) are. Whether this also applies to the novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, fictionalized version of China in the Tang and Song period, is unclear.
The Fionavar Tapestry - The Lords of Fionavar
The Sarantine Mosaic - The Journey to Sarantium
More Books
- The Curse, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08009-2, Tigana, 1990
- The Court Jester, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08010-6, Tigana, 1990
- A Song for Arbonne, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10841-8, A Song for Arbonne, 1992
( an abridged German translation appeared in 1995 under the title The land under the two moons )
- The Lions of Al- Rassan, 1996, ISBN 3-453-09738-6, The Lions of Al- Rassan, 1995
- Beyond This Dark House, 2003
- The princes of the North, 2007, ISBN 3-492-26668-1, The Last Light of the Sun, 2004
- Ysabel, ISBN 0-743-25250-0, 2007 Ysabel, 2007
- Under Heaven, 2010
- River of Stars, 2013