Ursula K. Le Guin in 2016. Photo courtesy of and copyright William Anthony.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. Read more about Ursula here.
News and happenings
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
Crafting with Ursula is a new podcast series that invites writers to engage with Ursula's craft or craft advice in relation to their own work. The third episode features Isaac Yuen on Writing Nature & Nature Writing.
As part of 2021’s Earthsea anniversary celebrations, io9 shared an excerpt from “On the High Marsh,” one of the stories from Tales from Earthsea.
-
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, which turns 20 years old this month, has been published in many langua… https://t.co/VliTB6EJ1x
-
"The Matter of Seggri" first appeared in Crank! (Spring 1994, Issue No. 3). It's collected in The Birthday of the W… https://t.co/xPKnW4w3fc
