List of awards to Ursula K. Le Guin
Chronological List
- Fulbright fellowship 1953
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1968? 1969?
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1979
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- Horn Book honor list citation
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- American Library Association Notable Book citation
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1991
- Hugo Awards (5) (Hugo Gernsback Science Fiction Achievement Award - "amateur" or "fan" awards)
- 1970: The Left Hand of Darkness
- 1970 (short story): "Winter's King" (nominated)
- 1972 (novel): The Lathe of Heaven (nominated)
- 1972 (short story): "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (nominated)
- 1973 (novella / short fiction): "The Word for World is Forest"
- 1974 (short story): "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973)
- 1975 (novel): The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
- 1975 (short story): "The Day Before the Revolution" (nominated)
- 1980 (non-fiction book): The Language of the Night, edited by Susan Wood (nominated)
- 1983 (short story): "Sur" (nominated)
- 1988 (novelette): "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?" (1987 in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences)
- 1989 (non-fiction book): Dancing at the Edge of the World (nominated)
- 1995 (novella): "Forgiveness Day" (nominated)
- 1995 (novelette): "The Matter of Seggri" (nominated)
- 1995 (novelette): "Solitude" (nominated)
- 1996 (novella): "A Man of the People" (nominated)
- 1996 (novella): "A Woman's Liberation" (nominated)
- 1997 (novelette): "Mountain Ways" (nominated)
- Kafka Award
- 1983: Always Coming Home
- National Book Award for Children's Books
- 1973: The Farthest Shore
- Nebula Awards (5) (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)
- 1969 (novel): The Left Hand of Darkness
- 1974 (novel): The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
- 1990 (novel): Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
- 1974 (short stories): "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974)
- 1995 (novelette): "Solitude" - Quoted at Science Fiction Weekly (5/6/96): "I'm amazed," Le Guin said during her acceptance speech. "It's such an introverted story and you're such a group of extroverts."
- Newberry Honor
- 1972: The Finest Shore
- Pilgrim Award - Awarded since 1970 by Science Fiction Research Association at its anual summer conference - for body of work.
- 1989
- Publisher's Weekly Best Books.
- Four Ways to Forgiveness listed in the Science Fiction Category of PW's list of 1995 Best Books.
- Pushcart Prize
- World Fantasy Award.
- 1995 Award for Live Achievement.
- James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award
- Co-winner Sixth James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award (1996): "Mountain Ways"
- Co-winner Fourth James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award (1994): "The Matter of Seggri"
- Retrospective James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award: The Left Hand of Darkness
- WisCon 20 (1995) Guest of Honor