| Ursula
K. Le Guin The science fiction and fantasy
novels of Ursula LeGuin, b. Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley,
Calif., Oct. 21, 1929, have won a wide audience. In her science
fiction she examines contemporary problems by restating them in
terms of other imagined worlds--for example, the possibility for
perfect anarchic society, in The Dispossessed, (1974); and
life in an androgynous world, in The Left Hand of Darkness,
(1969). LeGuin is also the author of a fantasy series for children,
the Earthsea trilogy, and has received many awards, including
the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award for juvenile fiction (1968) and the
National Book Award (1973) for the children's book The Farthest
Shore. Her other works include poetry, stories (collected in The
Wind's Twelve Quarters, 1975), essays on science fiction, and
the novels Malafrena (1979) and The Compass Rose
(1982). Nagrade:
- Fulbright fellowship 1953
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1968
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
- Hugo Awards (5) (Hugo Gernsback Science Fiction Achievement Award - "amateur" or "fan" awards)
1970: The Left Hand of Darkness
1973 (short fiction): "The Word for World is Forest"
1974 (short stories): "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973)
1975: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
1988 (novelettes): "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?" (1987 in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences)
- Kafka Award
- National Book Award
- 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.
- 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
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