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Ursula K Le Guin


(Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)
USA flag (1929 - 2018)

Ursula Le Guin won many awards, including a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award For Life Achievement.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
 
Series
Wind's Twelve Quarters
   April in Paris (1962)
   Darkness Box (1963)
   The Masters (1963)
   Semley's Necklace (1964)
   The Rule of Names (1964)
   The Word of Unbinding (1964)
   Winter's King (1969)
   A Trip to the Head (1970)
   The Good Trip (1970)
   Things (1970)
   Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971)
   The Field of Vision (1973)
   The Stars Below (1973)
   Direction of the Road (1974)
   The Day Before the Revolution (1974)
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Hainish Cycle
   1. Rocannon's World (1966)
   2. Planet of Exile (1966)
   3. City of Illusions (1967)
   4. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
   5. The Dispossessed (1974)
   6. The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
   7. Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
   8. The Telling (2000)
   The Hainish Novels and Stories (2017)
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Earthsea
   1. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
   2. The Tombs of Atuan (1970)
   3. The Farthest Shore (1972)
   4. Tehanu (1990)
   Earthsea Revisioned (1993)
   5. Tales from Earthsea (2001)
   6. The Other Wind (2001)
   6.5. The Daughter of Odren (2014)
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Orsinia
   Orsinian Tales (1975)
   Malafrena (1979)
   The Complete Orsinia (2016)
   Orsinia (2017)
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Catwings
   1. Catwings (1988)
   2. Catwings Return (1989)
   3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
   4. Jane On Her Own (1992)
   Tales of the Catwings (1996)
   More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
   5. Cat Dreams (2009)
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Chronicles of the Western Shore
   1. Gifts (2004)
   2. Voices (2006)
   3. Powers (2007)
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Novels
   The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
   Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976)
     aka A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else
   The Eye of the Heron (1978)
   The Beginning Place (1980)
     aka Threshold
   Always Coming Home (1985)
   Searoad (1991)
   A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992)
   Lavinia (2008)
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Collections
   Wild Angels (poems) (1975)
   The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)
   Walking in Cornwall (poems) (1976)
   Hard Words (poems) (1981)
   The Compass Rose (1982)
   In the Red Zone (poems) (1983)
   Wild Oats and Fireweed (poems) (1988)
   Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1988)
   The Visionary, Wonders Hidden (1988) (with Scott Russell Sanders)
   The Earthsea Quartet (1993)
   Blue Moon over Thurman Street (poems) (1993)
   Science Fiction Stories (1994)
   Going Out With Peacocks (poems) (1994)
   A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
   Unlocking the Air (1996)
   Sixty Odd (poems) (1999)
   The Birthday of the World (2002)
   Incredible Good Fortune (poems) (2006)
   Out Here (poems) (2010)
   Finding My Elegy (poems) (2012)
   Changing Planes (2014)
   The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose (2015)
   Late in the Day: Poems 2010 - 2014 (poems) (2015)
   Poems from the Book of Hours (poems) (2016) (with Babette Deutsch and Rainer Maria Rilke)
   The Found and the Lost (2016)
   The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (2016)
   Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017)
   So Far, So Good (poems) (2018)
   Collected Poems (poems) (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Water Is Wide (1976)
   Leese Webster (1979)
   Gwilan's Harp (1981)
   Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983)
   The Visionary (1984)
   Nine Lives (1992)
   The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1992)
   Buffalo Gals (1994)
   The Shobies' Story (1998)
   Dangerous People (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   The Altered I (1978) (with Lee Harding)
   Edges (1980) (with Virginia Kidd)
   Interfaces (1980) (with Virginia Kidd)
   The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993) (with Brian Attebery)
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Series contributed to
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Picture Books show
 
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Ursula K Le Guin recommends
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Interlibrary Loan (2020)
(Borrowed Man, book 2)
Gene Wolfe
"Wolfe is our Melville."
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The Little Animals (2019)
Sarah Tolmie
"...vibrant with life and activity, fascinating in its strangeness and its familiarity."
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Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories (2018)
Vandana Singh
"A most promising and original young writer."

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Anthologies containing stories by Ursula K Le Guin
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020)
edited by
Ann Vandermeer and Jeffrey S VanderMeer

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Awards
Hugo Best Novel winner (1970) : The Left Hand of Darkness
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1970) : Winter's King
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1970) : The Left Hand of Darkness
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1970) : Nine Lives [short story]
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Lathe of Heaven
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1972) : Vaster than Empires and More Slow
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1972) : The Tombs of Atuan
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Lathe of Heaven
Hugo Best Novella winner (1973) : The Word for World is Forest [short story]
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1973) : The Farthest Shore
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Word for World is Forest [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1974) : The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1975) : The Day Before the Revolution
Hugo Best Novel winner (1975) : The Dispossessed
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1975) : The Dispossessed
Nebula Awards Best Short Story winner (1975) : The Day Before the Revolution
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1975) : The Dispossessed
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1976) : The New Atlantis
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1976) : The New Atlantis
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Diary of the Rose
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Diary of the Rose
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1980) : The Pathways of Desire
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1981) : The Beginning Place
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1983) : Sur
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1985) : Always Coming Home
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1986) : Always Coming Home
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
World Fantasy Best Novella winner (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1991) : Tehanu
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1991) : The Shobies Story
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1991) : Tehanu
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1995) : Forgiveness Day
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1995) : The Matter of Seggri
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1995) : Forgiveness Day
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1995) : The Matter of Seggri
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1995)
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : A Man of the People
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : A Woman's Liberation
Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1996) : Solitude
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1996) : Ether, OR
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1997) : Mountain Ways
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1997) : A Woman's Liberation
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1997) : Unlocking the Air: And Other Stories
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1999) : Dragonfly
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2002) : The Other Wind
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Other Wind
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2002) : The Other Wind
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2003) : The Other Wind
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2009) : Lavinia
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (2009) : Powers


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