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
Major awards
Unsorted
2001 Locus Readers Awards for The Telling and "The Birthday of the World."
2001 Lifetime Achievement Award, Pacific NW Booksellers Assoc.
2000 Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, L.A. Times
1998 Bumbershoot Arts Award, Seattle Introduction: "Ursula K. Le Guin: Mutinous Navigator," by Vonda N. McIntyre [offsite link]
1997 James Tiptree Jr. Award for "Mountain Ways"
1996 Locus Readers Award for Four Ways to Forgiveness
1996 James Tiptree Jr. Retrospective Award for Left Hand of Darkness
1996 Nebula Award for "Solitude"
1995 Theodore Sturgeon Award for "Forgiveness Day"
1995 Locus Readers Award for "Forgiveness Day"
1995 James Tiptree, Jr, Award for "The Matter of Seggri"
995 Asimov's Readers Award for "Forgiveness Day"
1995 Hubbub annual poetry award for "Semen"
1992 H.L.Davis Fiction Award from OLA for Searoad
1992 Searoad shortlisted for Pulitzer Prize
1991 Harold Vursell Award, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters
1991 Pushcart Prize for "Bill Weisler"
1990 Nebula Award for Tehanu
1988 Hugo Award for "Buffalo Gals"
1988 International Fantasy Award for "Buffalo Gals"
1987 Prix Lectures-Jeunesse for Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (tr. Laroche)
1986 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction for Always Coming Home
1985 Always Coming Home shortlisted for National Book Award
1984 Locus Award for The Compass Rose
1979 Gandalf Award (Grand Master of Fantasy), presented by 1979 Worldcon
1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for A Wizard of Earthsea
1976 Jupiter Award for "The Diary of the Rose"
1975 Nebula Award for The Dispossessed
1975 Hugo Award for The Dispossessed
1975 Nebula Award for "The Day Before the Revolution"
1975 Jupiter Award for "The Day Before the Revolution"
1974 Hugo Award for "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
1973 Locus Award for The Lathe of Heaven
1973 Hugo Award for The Word for World is Forest
1972 National Book Award for Children's Books for The Farthest Shore
1972 Newberry Silver Medal Award for The Tombs of Atuan
1969 Hugo Award for The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 Nebula Award for The Left Hand of Darkness
1968 Boston Globe-Horn Book award for A Wizard of Earthsea