Elegant And Enduring: A Salute To The Great Ursula Le Guin

Recently, the (US) National Book Association awarded Ursula Le Guin its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, arguably one of the most distinguished awards in literature.

The citation included the following:

“For more than forty years, Le Guin has defied conventions of narrative, language, character, and genre, as well as transcended the boundaries between fantasy and realism to forge new paths for literary fiction…Among the nation’s most revered writers of science fiction a...