Guy Gavriel Kay

Biography

Novels

• The Fionavar Tapestry, a portal fantasy in which five travel from our Earth to "the first of all worlds"
• *The Summer Tree
• * The Wandering Fire, winner of the 1987 Prix Aurora Award
• * The Darkest Road
• Tigana, taking place in a setting based on renaissance Italy
• A Song for Arbonne, inspired by the Albigensian Crusade in medieval Provence
• The Lions of Al-Rassan, set in an analogue of medieval Spain
• The Sarantine Mosaic, inspired by the Byzantium of Justinian I
• *Sailing to Sarantium
• * Lord of Emperors
• The Last Light of the Sun, inspired by the Viking invasions during the reign of Alfred the Great
• Ysabel, a contemporary fantasy set in Provence, centering on a teenage boy and his encounters with characters from the distant past. Linked to his Fionavar Tapestry series.
• Under Heaven, inspired by the 8th century Tang Dynasty and the events leading up to the An Shi Rebellion
• River of Stars, taking place in the same setting as Under Heaven, based on the 12th century Song Dynasty and the events around the Jin-Song Wars and the transition from Northern Song to Southern Song
• Children of Earth and Sky, taking place in the same world as The Lions of Al-Rassan, The Sarantine Mosaic, and The Last Light of the Sun, and taking place in a world based on Italy, Istanbul and the Balkans in the 15th century
• A Brightness Long Ago, prequel to Children of Earth and Sky

  Poetry

• Beyond This Dark House, a collection

  Partial list of nominations, awards and accolades

Awards

• Kay won the 1985 Scales of Justice Award for best media treatment of a legal issue, Canadian Law Reform Commission, 1985, for "Second Time Around".
• The Wandering Fire won the 1987 Prix Aurora Award in the English category for best speculative fiction.
• Kay won the 1991 Aurora Award for Best Novel for Tigana.
• Kay was runner up for the White Pine Award in 2007 for Ysabel.
• Ysabel was the winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
• Kay has also won the International Goliardos Award for his contributions of the international literature of the fantastic.
• Under Heaven won the Sunburst Award in 2011 and was long listed for the IMPAC/Dublin Literary prize.
• Kay was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2014 "for his contributions to the field of speculative fiction as an internationally celebrated author."
• Under Heaven won the 2015 Prix Elbakin in France.
• River of Stars won the 2017 Prix Elbakin in France.
• Under Heaven was named the best fantasy novel of the year by The American Library Association, and was the SF Book Club's Book of the Year

  Nominations

• Kay has been nominated several times for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
• Kay has been nominated four times for the World Fantasy Award, and won in 2008 for "'Ysabel'".
• Kay has been nominated multiple times for the Canadian Sunburst Award.

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