Most Recent Role: Himself on Prisoners of Gravity
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Birthday: 11-7-1954
Birth Name: Guy Gavriel Kay
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Birthday: 11-7-1954
Birth Name: Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While studying at the University of Manitoba, he came in contact with Christopher Tolkien, and from that contact eventually became an assistant editor of J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished works. He moved to Oxford University in 1974 to work on the editing of The Silmarillion, and returned to Canada in 1976 to...
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Wednesday 24 November 1993 on TVO
This week, Commander Rick looks at the continuing influence of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings, and discusses this with guests Mike Ploog, Walt Simonson, Charles Vess, Guy Gavriel Kay, Diana L. Paxson, Sean Stewart, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles de Lint, Terry Pratchett, Suzy McKee...
Kay worked for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), doing the radio program Scales of Justice, which then moved to television.
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Kay describes himself as both "bookish" and "a jock" as a child.
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Although he doesn't have a lot of time to read for enjoyment, Guy Gavriel Kay does enjoy reading the works of Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Cormac MacCarthy, among others.
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Kay refers to his meeting Christopher Tolkien as a life-shifting experience; this meeting eventually lead to him co-editing The Silmarillion.
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He studied law at the University of Toronto, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1982, but never practised law.
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(on "The Fionavar Tapestry")
Guy: I saw myself to some degree as trying to say: I'm going to use as many of the central motifs and themes of high fantasy as I can, and I shall try to give the lie to those who have debased it, by showing that there's still a great deal of life in the genre, that it's infinitely larger than twenty years' of hack work. We're not capable of debasing it, ultimately. (edit) (on creating characters of different ages and sexes) Guy: Creating characters is, in a large way, an act of imaginative empathy, and I'm resistant to the idea that there are absolute borders to that. (edit)
Guy: I saw myself to some degree as trying to say: I'm going to use as many of the central motifs and themes of high fantasy as I can, and I shall try to give the lie to those who have debased it, by showing that there's still a great deal of life in the genre, that it's infinitely larger than twenty years' of hack work. We're not capable of debasing it, ultimately. (edit) (on creating characters of different ages and sexes) Guy: Creating characters is, in a large way, an act of imaginative empathy, and I'm resistant to the idea that there are absolute borders to that. (edit)
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