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<div style="text-align: center;">Come join us for <strong><span style="font-size: large;">Guy Gavriel Kay's</span></strong> Reading.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;">March 29th -- 4:30 p.m. -- St. Jerome's, Room 3014</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hope to see you there!</strong></div><br>
Guy Gavriel Kay was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and raised in
Winnipeg. In the 1970’s he was retained by the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien
to assist in the editorial construction of Tolkien’s posthumously
published The Silmarillion. He returned to Canada from Oxford to take a
law degree at the University of Toronto and was called to the Bar in
Ontario.<br>
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Kay became Principal Writer and Associate Producer for the CBC radio
series, “The Scales of Justice”, dramatizing major criminal trials in
Canadian history. He also wrote several episodes when the series later
moved to television. He has written social and political commentary for
the National Post and the Globe and Mail and for The Guardian in
England, and has spoken on a variety of topics at universities and
conferences around the world.<br>
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In 1984, Kay's first novel, The Summer Tree, the first volume of The
Fionavar Tapestry, was published to considerable acclaim in Canada, the
United States and the United Kingdom, and then in a number of countries
and languages. In 1990 Viking Canada’s edition of his novel Tigana
reached the national bestseller list, and his next book A Song for
Arbonne debuted at #1 nationally. Kay has been a bestseller with each
novel since.<br>
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Translations now exceed twenty languages and Kay has toured and read on
behalf of his publishers and at literary events across Canada, and in
countries ranging from the United States and England to Poland, France,
Russia, Croatia, Serbia, Mexico, and Greece, among others, with his most
recent international appearance being in China. He was been nominated
for and has won numerous literary awards and is the recipient of the
International Goliardos Prize (presented in Mexico City) for his
contributions to the literature of the fantastic.<br>
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Guy Gavriel Kay lives in Toronto with his wife and sons.