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
Limited edition prints of Ursula’s map of Earthsea are now available in color and black-and-white editions, with net proceeds benefiting access to books! Get yours at PM Press.
BBC Radio 3 airs Afterwords—Ursula K. Le Guin with writers Katherine Rundell and So Mayer, anthropologist and drag artist Cheddar Gorgeous, collaborator, friend and musician Todd Barton, and Theo Downes-Le Guin
The winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is Rebecca Campbell for Arboreality! Read more about the winner and the shortlist here.
The Journey That Matters, a series of six short films about Ursula by Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin director Arwen Curry, appeared on Literary Hub. Watch all the shorts here.
The podcast series Crafting with Ursula invites writers to engage with Ursula's craft or craft advice in relation to their own work. The twelfth and final episode features Neil Gaiman on “Word Magic and the Power of Telling Stories.” Listen to all episodes here.
