Author · 1929–2018
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin was an American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018). Born in Berkeley.
Our catalogue lists 5 books by Ursula K. Le Guin, mostly dragon fantasy, time-travel fiction and historical fantasy. They span 1974 to 2012. The most-read is The Dispossessed (1974).
Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed
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The Other Wind
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Lavinia
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The Earthsea quartet
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Epic
John Joseph Adams, Robin Hobb
Awards
- ✦Otherwise Award 2008 — Overall, Lavinia (nominee)
- ✦Otherwise Award 1999 — Overall (nominee)
- ✦Otherwise Award 1998 — Overall, Unchosen Love (nominee)
- 🏆Otherwise Award 1996 — Overall, Mountain Ways (winner)
- ✦Otherwise Award 1995 — Overall, Forgiveness Day (nominee)
- 🏆Otherwise Award 1994 — Overall, The Matter of Seggri (winner)
- ✦Otherwise Award 1994 — Overall, Forgiveness Day (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 2018 — Best Related Work, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (winner)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 2017 — Best Related Work, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 2003 — Best Novelette, The Wild Girls (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 2002 — Best Short Story, The Bones of the Earth (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1997 — Best Novelette, Mountain Ways (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1996 — Best Novella, A Woman's Liberation (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1996 — Best Novella, A Man of the People (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1995 — Best Novelette, The Matter of Seggri (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1995 — Best Novelette, Solitude (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1995 — Best Novella, Forgiveness Day (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1990 — Best Related Work, Dancing at the Edge of the World (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1988 — Best Novelette, Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1983 — Best Short Story, Sur (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1981 — Best Dramatic Presentation, The Lathe of Heaven (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1980 — Best Related Work, The Language of the Night (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1977 — Best Novelette, The Diary of the Rose (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1976 — Best Novelette, The New Atlantis (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1975 — Best Novel, The Dispossessed (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1975 — Best Short Story, The Day Before the Revolution (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1974 — Best Short Story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (winner)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1973 — Best Novella, The Word for World Is Forest (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1972 — Best Novel, The Lathe of Heaven (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1972 — Best Short Story, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (nominee)
Biography
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin)