- Lavinia won the 2009 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. 27 June 2009
- The Mythopoeic Society nominated Lavinia for its 2009 Best Fantasy Novel Mythopoeic Award
- Powers, the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore, won SFWA’s Nebula Award for best novel of 2008.
- Oregon State Library has chosen The Lathe of Heaven, Searoad, and The World Begins Here (ed. Glen A. Love, including “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”) for its “150 Books for Oregon’s Sesquicentennial” [1.6Mb PDF] (14 February 2009)
- 2006 Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers for distinguished body of work. Washington Center for the Book.
- 2004 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement (YALSA)
- 2004 Arbuthnot Lecturer (American Library Association)
- 2003 Grand Master, SFWA
- 2003 Locus Readers Award: “The Wild Girls”
- 2003 Asimov’s Readers Award: “The Wild Girls”
- 2003 Endeavor Award: Tales from Earthsea
- 2002 PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction
- 2002 Willamette Writers Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2002 Locus Readers Awards: Tales from Earthsea, “The Bones of the Earth”
- 2002 Locus Readers Awards: Tales from Earthsea, “The Finder”
- 2001 Endeavor Award: The Telling
- 2001 Locus Readers Awards for The Telling and “The Birthday of the World.”
- 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award, Pacific NW Booksellers Assoc. UKL Interview.
- 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
- 1995 Nebula Award for “Solitude”
- 1995 Theodore Sturgeon Award for “Forgiveness Day”
- 1995 Locus Readers Award for “Forgiveness Day”
- 1994 James Tiptree, Jr, Award for “The Matter of Seggri”
- 1995 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)
- 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 Newbery 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
- Matthew Peterson interviews UKL for The Author Hour. Audio, transcript, and bonus questions. 12 November 2009
- First Contact: A Talk with Ursula K. Le Guin, at The New Yorker Book Club. 25 July 2009
- “Think & Drink,” Oregon Council for the Humanities. UKL and Lani Roberts. [Photo] [MP3-1] [MP3-2] 17 June 2009
- “An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin,” by Lev Grossman, Time, 11 May 2009
- Now available on UKL’s website: China Miéville interviews UKL about her life and work for BBC Radio 4, 17 March 2009.
- Steve Lafreniere Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin at Vice magazine. 1/9/2009
- “Better Than Potter,” by Kelly McManus, North Shore Outlook, 10/27/2008, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin, by Carl Freedman, University Press of Mississippi, September 2008.
- Q&A with author Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Theresa Hogue for the Corvallis Gazette-Times, 12 September 2008.
- “Between the Covers,” 22 July 2008: Jim Schumock interviews UKL for KBOO radio. Streaming audio.
- Interview in Das Science Fiction Jahr 2008, ed. Sascha Mamczak (in German). Heyne Verlag 2008
- “Sing Muse, of the woman unsung” — Review and interview at The Inkwell Review. June 2008
- The Book Show, ABC Australia, interviews UKL. Transcript and audio. [Offsite link]
- NPR’s Jacki Lyden interviews UKL on “All Things Considered,” 26 April 2008. (Audio)
- Between the Covers: John J. Miller interviews UKL at National Review Online. 24 April 2008. [offsite link; audio interview]
- “A Princess Seeking a Voice,” interview by Cynthia Crossen at The Wall Street Journal. (12 April 2008)
- “Breaking into the Spell,” An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin. Conducted by Alexander Chee at Guernica Magazine, February 2008. (8 February 2008)
- The Oregonian’s Steve Duin interviews UKL: “For Le Guin, the Journey Never Ends.” (5 February 2008)
- Interview for Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine
Fantasymundo — en castellano/in English. Conducted by Alejandro Serrano. (Link posted 4 February 2008)
- The Death Ray Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, conducted by Guy Haley. Interview reprinted from Death Ray with the kind permission of Blackfish Publishing. (Posted 6 November 2007)
- Karen Karbo interviewed UKL on 12 April 2008 for Live Wire. Oregon Public Broadcasting broadcast it live. It is now available as a podcast MP3. (10 April 2008; update 5 May 2008)
- Interview by Margarita Meklina (in Russian)
- Wizard Oil, by Carol Pinchefsky, Intergalactic Medicine Show, January 2007.
- Doce Moradas interview, conducted by Paola Castagno
- Femin magazine: The original questions and answers
on which an interview published in the Japanese feminist magazine
FEMIN was based — translated into Japanese by the interviewer,
Chieko Akaishi.
- The Magician: article/interview by Maya Jaggi, online at The Guardian [Dec. 29 2005; offsite link]
- Chronicles of Earthsea — Q&A at Guardian Unlimited
- Elsewhere, Inverted, Utopia —
Kurt Anderson interviews Ursula K. Le Guin for Studio 360 at WNYC public radio. [offsite link to audio archive]
- Página/12: Entrevista a Ursula K. Le Guin, por Sandra Chaher [offsite link; in Spanish]
- West by Northwest Online Magazine: Life in the Wider Household of Being: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by Erika Milo
- Driven By A Different Chauffeur: An Interview With Ursula K. Le Guin, Conducted by Nick Gevers: “Ursula K. Le Guin has something of the quality of legend....” [continued...]
[off-site link to The SF Site]
- Pacific NW Booksellers Association Interview, on the occasion of UKL’s lifetime achievement award. [off-site link]
- Hour 25 archive: UKL’s appearance, September 29, 2000. [off-site link]
- A Mask of the Dragon Yevaud, by Ilyana Mansfield
- Photographers — Have you taken a good picture of Ursula at one of her public events?
- Timberland Regional Library, Olympia, WA: Photo by Jim Culp. 10 October 2008.
- Queen Ursula at Potlatch 16: Photo by Denise Rehse Watson, October 2007
- A Walk in Portland: Photos by Eileen Gunn, April 2003
- Ursula K. Le Guin at Kiger Gorge, Harney County, OR: Photo by Terry Dillon
- Ursula K. Le Guin and Blazing Star, Harney County, OR: Photo by Terry Dillon
- PEN/Malamud Award 2002 to Ursula K. Le Guin and Junot Diaz
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Virginia Woolf and Freshwater: Photo courtesy Multnomah County Library
- Kesh Musicians, Mythcon XIX: Photo by Brian Attebury, 1988
- Ursula K. Le Guin & Elinor Armer: Lockerbones/Airbones: Poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin, music by Elinor Armer
- Poem: “The Palindromedary” (February 2009)
- Poem: The Vigil for Ben Linder"
(November 2006)
- Poem: Crows (November 2006)
- Poem: Learning the Name (November 2006)
- Poem: Intimations (November 2006)
- Poem: Every Land (November 2006)
- Poem: A Measure of Desolation: February 2005
- Poem: In the Third Year of the War
- Poem: From the Tent on the Volcano: July 2005
- Poem: This Stone, Always Coming Home
- Poem: A Meditation in the Eighth House in Early Spring by Ire of Sinshan, Always Coming Home
- Poem: Canción de la Muerte, from Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Poem: Song of Death, from Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Poem: Dame la Mano, from Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Poem: Give Me Your Hand, from Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Poem: Canto que Amabas, from Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Poem: What You Loved, from Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Excerpt: Lavinia
- Excerpt: The Lathe of Heaven
- Excerpt: Voices
- Excerpt: Coming of Age in Karhide
- Excerpt: The Matter of Seggri
- Excerpt: Unchosen Love
- Excerpt: Mountain Ways
- Excerpt: Solitude
- Excerpt: Old Music and the Slave Women
- Excerpt: The Birthday of the World
- Excerpt: Paradises Lost
- Excerpt: The Other Wind
- Excerpt: The Other Wind
- Excerpt: Steering the Craft
- Excerpt: Dragonfly. Tales from Earthsea.
- Excerpt: The Telling
- A Few Words to a Young Writer
- A Rejection Letter
- Manuscript Preparation
- A Sketchy Introduction to Copyright and Contracts
- A Discussion of Story, from Steering the Craft
- What Makes a Story
- A Message about Messages [offsite link]
- Plausibility in Fantasy
- Plausibility Revisited:
Wha Hoppen and What Didn’t
- Some Genres I Write in:
A Table of Contents
for the Collection
Unlocking the Air,
with Useful Classification of the Stories by Genre
- Being an Editor, by Guest Columnist Michael Kandel
- What Freelance Writers Get Paid and How
- On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy
- Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey — Review by UKL at The Guardian. (30 January 2010)
- True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson, at The Guardian. Reprinted on this website.
- Book review by UKL: The Post Office Girl, by Stefan Zweig. Literary Review 2009 (Added to website 5 November 2009)
- A Book of Silence, by Sara Maitland, reviewed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Literary Review 2009. (Added to website 16 September 2009)
- Lord Dunsany: In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales, edited by S.T. Joshi. (review by UKL) LA Times Book Review, 2004. (Added to website 6 July 2009)
- Land of Marvels, by Barry Unsworth: “Digging for victory” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 17 January 2009.
- The End of Mr Y, Scarlett Thomas: “Lost in Mindspace” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 21 July 2007.
- The Planets, by Dava Sobel: “Anti-gravity solar system” (review by UKL) LA Times, 5 October 2005.
- Seeing, by José Saramago: “The plague of blank ballots” (review by UKL) The Guardian, Saturday 15 April 2006.
- The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, by Victor Pelevin: “Pinning the tail on the fox” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 16 February 2008.
- Hav, by Jan Morris: “Magical history tour” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 3 June 2006.
- Day, by A.L. Kennedy: “At war with you” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 7 April 2007.
- The Immigrant, by Manju Kapur: “A passage to Canada” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 18 April 2009.
- Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong: “Keep off the grass” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 22 March 2008.
- Heaven’s Net Is Wide, by Lian Hearn: “Before the dream” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 27 October 2007.
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo: “Sorry of my English” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 27 January 2007.
- Moral Disorder, by Margaret Atwood: “Eleven-piece suite” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 23 September 2006
- The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants by Anna Pavord: “You say arbutus, I say kisspop” (review by UKL) The Guardian, Saturday 26 November 2005
- The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino: “Into the cosmos with Qfwfq” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 15 June 2009
- UKL reviews Enchanted Hunters, by Maria Tatar (review by UKL) LA Times, 14 June 2009
- Journey into Space, by Toby Litt: “Spaceship of fools” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 28 February 2009.
- A to X, by John Berger: “The story of Us and Them” (review by UKL) The Guardian. 16 August 2008
- The Lost Dog, by Michelle de Kretser: “One man and his dog” (review by UKL) The Guardian. 18 June 2008
- The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie: “The real uses of enchantment” (review by UKL) Guardian Unlimited, Saturday March 29, 2008.
- People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks: “The shelf-life of shadows” (review by UKL) The Guardian, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
- Girl Meets Boy, by Ali Smith, and
Where Three Roads Meet, by Salley Vickers:
“Sigmund and the blind seer” (review by UKL) Guardian Unlimited, 8 December 2007
- The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson: “Head Cases” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 22 September 2007.
- Consequences, by Penelope Lively: “The soldier’s grave” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 16 June 2007.
- Suffer the Little Children, by Donna Leone: “The Baby-Snatchers” (review by UKL) Manchester Guardian, May 2007.
- The Cleft by Doris Lessing: “Saved by a Squirt” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 17 March 2007.
- Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard: “Revolution in the aisles” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 9 September 2006.
- The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble: “Mermaid on dry land” (review by UKL) The Guardian, 22 July 2006.
- Ledoyt, by Carol Emshwiller: A Review by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Maxine Cushing Gray Award acceptance speech, Washington State Book Awards, Seattle, 18 October 2006
- “Some Assumptions about Fantasy” — BookExpo America speech, Chicago, 4 June 2004 [offsite link]
- “Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children’s Literature.” Video of Arbuthnot Honor Lecture by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004. (19Mb, 1hr, video. If the image is pixilated or blurry, choose “original size” from the drop-down menu at the lower right corner of the video window.) [offsite link]
- “Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children’s Literature.” Video of Arbuthnot Honor Lecture by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004. (69Mb, 1hr, high-res video. If the image is pixilated or blurry, choose “original size” from the drop-down menu at the lower right corner of the video window.) [offsite link]
- “A Left-Handed Commencement Address,” Mills College, 1983.
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“Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness), and she approaches Lavinia's world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy. It's a novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves's I, Claudius.”