Reminder: Guy Gavriel Kay Reading -- Tuesday, March 29th, 4:30 p.m.

[The Reading Series at St. Jerome's]

  Come join us for *Guy Gavriel Kay's* Reading.

March 29th -- 4:30 p.m. -- St. Jerome's, Room 3014

*Hope to see you there!*

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.


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.

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.

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.

Guy Gavriel Kay lives in Toronto with his wife and sons.
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