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Toren Smith (April 12 1960 – March 4 2013) was a manga translator and founder of Studio Proteus. He was born in Alberta Canada learned to read by the age of four and by the age of 12 had won his first award for writing from the Calgary Stampede and Exhibition. By thirteen he had sold his first magazine article an examination of body morphology in deep sea fishes which included drawings by himself.