Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian novelist known for historical fantasy: novels set in worlds closely modelled on real periods, such as Byzantium in The Sarantine Mosaic, Moorish Spain in The Lions of Al-Rassan and Tang China in Under Heaven. Before his own books he helped Christopher Tolkien edit J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. His debut was The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy (1984-1986), and his later novels include Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, Children of Earth and Sky and All the Seas of the World.
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Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian novelist known for historical fantasy: novels set in worlds closely modelled on real periods, such as Byzantium in The Sarantine Mosaic, Moorish Spain in The Lions of Al-Rassan and Tang China in Under Heaven. Before his own books he helped Christopher Tolkien edit J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. His debut was The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy (1984-1986), and his later novels include Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, Children of Earth and Sky and All the Seas of the World.
