Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (ursulakleguin.com) (born October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction and poetry. Her parents were Alfred and Theodora Kroeber, well-known anthropologists. Her mother wrote Ishi in Two Worlds, a famous biography of a California Native American who lived with the Kroebers for some time during Le Guin's childhood. She lives with her husband, Charles Le Guin, in Portland, Oregon. One of their daughters, Elisabeth Le Guin, is a noted musician performing early music.

She is almost certainly the most famous feminist science fiction writer in the world, and one of the most famous and respected science fiction writers, period. She has won the World Fantasy Award life achievement award, the Science Fiction Writers of American Grand Master Award, and the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award. She is a living inductee of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The Earthsea series was listed as #4 in the 1998 Locus Magazine all-time fantasy before 1990 poll, and A Wizard of Earthsea was listed as #3 in the 1987 Locus Magazine all-time best fantasy novel poll. Her novels The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness were both multiply honored.

Her breakthrough novel, The Left Hand of Darkness was an early treatment of a differently gendered society.

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Bibliography

Important sequences and series:

Novels not in series

Short story collections not in series

See also List of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

Children's books not in series

Poetry collections

Non-fiction

See Essays by Ursula K. Le Guin

Translations

Collaborations

Edited anthologies

Award-winning short fiction

  • "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973), winner 1974 Hugo Award, best short story
  • "The Day Before the Revolution" (1975), Ekumen story, prequel to The Dispossessed," winner, 1975 Nebula Award, 1975 Locus Award
  • "The New Atlantis" (1975), winner 1976 Locus Award
  • "Sur" (1982), winner 1983 Locus Award
  • "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?" (1987), winner 1988 Hugo Award, best novelette; 1988 World Fantasy Award, best novella
  • "Forgiveness Day" (1994) [Ekumen]], winner 1995 Locus Award, 1995 Asimov's Magazine Reader Poll,
  • "The Matter of Seggri" (1994), Ekumen, winner 1995 Tiptree Award
  • "Solitude" (1994), winner 1996 Nebula Award
  • "Mountain Ways" (1996), winner 1997 Tiptree Award, 1997 Locus Award
  • "The Birthday of the World" (2000), winner 2001 Locus Award, best novelette
  • "The Bones of the Earth" (2001), winner 2002 Locus Award, best short story
  • "The Finder" (2001), winner 2002 Locus Award, best novella
  • "The Wild Girls" (2002), winner 2003 Locus Award, best novelette

Uncollected stories and essays

  • "Along the River" (1993, Omni Best Science Fiction Three)
  • "Earthsea Revisioned" (1993, Green Bay booklet)
  • "The Lost Children" (1996, Thirteenth Moon)
  • "The Ursula Major Construct: or, A Far Greater Horror Loomed" (1973, Clarion III)
  • "The Wild Girls" (2002, Asimov's)

Adaptations of works


Further reading and listening

From Le Guin


References about Le Guin


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