He has worked as creative adviser for Toronto’s Hall Train Studios’ multi-media museum exhibitions. His 100 part Lost Animals TV series (narrated by Greta Scacchi) was commissioned by the Knowledge Network in US, Channel 4 in UK and NHK in Japan – and later translated into 18 languages. Through the 1980’s and 1990’s, Day was also an environmental columnist for Britain’s Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Punch magazine.Īfter the 1996 publication of his Quest For King Arthur, David Day was commissioned by the Birmingham Royal Ballet as dramaturge for the epic two-part ballet, Arthur I and Arthur II (2000).ĭavid Day has also written for theatre and television. That year, his poems were prize winners in the CBC National Poetry Competition. In 1986, The Emperor’s Panda was runner-up for the Governor General’s Award and the National Library Award, and was adapted for stage by the Toronto Young People’s Theatre. And in 1984, Day wrote Castles, the first of five books in collaboration with the Academy Award winning artist, Alan Lee. In 1981, his Doomsday Book of Animals was a ‘Book of the Year’ selection for Time Magazine, New Scientist, Los Angeles Times and The Observer. In 1978, he published A Tolkien Bestiary, the first of his six best selling books on the works of J R R Tolkien. He has subsequently travelled extensively, and lived in England, Greece, Spain and Canada. He was writer in residence at the Aegean School of Fine Arts in Paros, Greece, and worked for the Canadian Publishers McClelland Stewart in Toronto.
His first book of poems, The Cowichan (based on his timber camp journals) was published in 1975, and he graduated from the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Victoria the following year. After high school, Day divided the next decade between work in logging camps and study at universities. David Day’s books – for both adults and children – have sold over three million copies worldwide and were translated into twenty languages. He is a poet and author who has published over 40 books of poetry, ecology, history, fantasy, mythology and fiction.
David Day was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.
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