Guy Gavriel Kay
1954
Guy Gavriel Kay is an author from Canada whose novels mainly revolve around fiction and fantasy. However, he has articulated his wishes to evade from specializing in a certain genre. His stories bear a resemblance of actual places in the ancient period with the books being successively interpreted in twelve different languages. The author was born in Saskatchewan, grew up in Manitoba and currently lives in Toronto, Canada. He has won several awards some of them being the Prix Aurora Award and the World Fantasy Award. He has also received various nominations such as the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and the Israeli Society for Science and Fiction and Fantasy Award. Although his current occupation is an author, he had initially pursued a bachelor in Law at the University of Toronto. Kay was born in 1954 to his father, Samuel Kay and mother, Sybil Kay. His dad was a surgeon and his siblings, Rax and Jeffrey are a psychiatrist and advocate respectively. Apart from the law degree he also pursued a bachelor in Philosophy at the University of Manitoba. Kay’s liking for literature was developed since childhood as his parents would read to him several books as they were also fond of reading. One of his favorite authors includes Lord Dunsany and J.R.R. Tolkien whose books revolve around legendry. It is through reading such books that Kay began liking fantasy.