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BEIJING - Best-selling Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay, who turned to China for inspiration for his latest novel, said Friday he hoped to return the favor by helping Chinese fantasy writers to international fame.
Kay told a novel workshop in Beijing that more works by good Chinese fantasy writers should be translated for an international readership.
Leading Chinese fantasy literature writers, researchers, publishers and readers attended the workshop.
Kay said his intention for fantasy writing was to help people understand others' worlds. "I believe that fantasy is what we commonly share. We could communicate through fantasy stories," he said.
Kay advised young fantasy writers to take their time on their work and not to hurry from one book to the next.
Kay's writing career began as he was invited to reorganize the manuscripts of JRR Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings.
Kay helped to edit Tolkien's posthumous work, The Silmarillion.
He said he was greatly encouraged to find Tolkien had put so much work into writing and rewriting the stories.
Kay said he had spent about seven years researching Chinese history.
His latest novel,air jordan, "Under Heaven," is inspired by events in Eighth Century China's Tang Dynasty.
Wu Yan,abercrombie & fitch, vice director of the Chinese Children's Literature Research Center at Beijing Normal University, also emphasized the exchanges between Chinese and foreign fantasy writers.
"From this seminar, we not only have broadened our views,nike air jordan, but also realized the importance of fantasy literature development in China,air jordan chaussure," Wu said.
"China's fantasy literature is still in its infancy,air jordan basket, and such exchanges are helpful," said 26-year-old fantasy writer Wang Yao, who writes under the pen name "Xia Jia." "Not only the works themselves,moncler quincy, but the foreign writers' wise attitude is amazing as well."
The workshop was jointly held by China's Science Fiction World magazine and Beijing Normal University, to celebrate the publication of Kay's two representative works -- Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan -- in China this month.
"The workshop was a carnival for fantasy literature fans, and I would not miss it,doudoune moncler pas cher," said a posting from "Lanria_May" at Kay's online Chinese fan group at douban.com.
Others complained at the the website that they could not attend because it was held on Friday, not weekend,abercrombie france, and they had to go to work or school.
Kay's works are marketed as "historical fantasy". Many of his novels are set in imaginary backdrops that resemble actual places and people during actual historical periods.
His novel Tigana reached the national bestseller list in Canada in 1990 and his next book A Song for Arbonne debuted at No.1 in Canada.
He is also winner of fantasy fiction accolades the Aurora Award and Casper Award in 1987 and World Fantasy Award in 2008.
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