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Ursula K. Le Guin


Born
in Berkeley, California, The United States
October 21, 1929

Died
January 22, 2018

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Nonfiction

Influences
J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Phil ...more


Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi ...more

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Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin���s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin

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Average rating: 4.09 · 1,775,038 ratings · 149,446 reviews · 1,057 distinct works • Similar authors
A Wizard of Earthsea
4.01 avg rating — 378,701 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions
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The Left Hand of Darkness
4.09 avg rating — 239,361 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions
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The Dispossessed
4.26 avg rating — 164,452 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions
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The Tombs of Atuan (Earthse...
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The Farthest Shore
4.13 avg rating — 131,418 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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The Lathe of Heaven
4.12 avg rating — 96,349 ratings — published 1971 — 132 editions
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Tehanu
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The Word for World Is Forest
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The Other Wind
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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