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Guy Gavriel Kay
Sign in to saveCanadian author of fantasy fiction (born 1954)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 November 1954
- Works
- 110
Top works
- ha-Esh ha-nodedet
- ʻEts ha-ḳayits
- Le feu vagabond
- Gök Cennetin Altinda
- Ysabel
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 141
- Total plays
- 3,072
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
· 1984 · cited 21,453x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia
· 1987 · cited 17,967x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,923x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,464x
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Quotes
- “When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”
- “I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.”
- “Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.”
- “A reminder of what it was to be mortal and so doomed to tread one road only and that one only once...We can never truly know the path we have not walked.”
- ““The Tyrants have cleaned out most of the highway brigands. Just a matter of protecting their own interests. They want to make sure no one else robs us before they do with their border tariffs and taxes.” He spat, discreetly, into the dust of the road. “Personally I preferred the brigands. There were ways of dealing with them.””
- “Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-11-07 ) November 7, 1954 (age 71) , Weyburn , Saskatchewan, Canada
- Occupation
- Writer
- Education
- University of Manitoba ( BA ) University of Toronto ( LLB )
- Period
- 1984–present
- Genre
- Fantasy scriptwriting poetry
- Notable works
- The Fionavar Tapestry Tigana
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings 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. Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization of these works as historical fantasy. As of 2025, Kay has published 16 novels and a book of poetry. As of 2018, his fiction has been translated into at least 22 languages. Kay is also a qualified lawyer in Canada.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guy Gavriel Kay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.