Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /??rs?l? ?kro?b?r l???w?n/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.Le Guin was influenced by fantasy writers including J. R. R. Tolkien, by science fiction writers including Philip K. Dick (who was in her same high school class, though they didn't know one another), by central figures of Western literature such as Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and the Brontë sisters, by feminist writers such as Virginia Woolf, by children's literature such as Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching. In turn, she influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers, as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell – and notable futurism and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once.
Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Short Story, John Newbery Medal, James Tiptree Jr. Award, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Hugo Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Nebula Award for Bes...
Nominations
Nebula Award for Best Novella, National Book Award for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award f...
Movies
Tales from Earthsea, Earthsea, Lathe of Heaven
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a new novel, sometimes.
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[on imagination] As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Fact
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Ursula Kroeber graduated from Berkley High School, class of 1947 with Philip K Dick, but they didn't know each other.
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Biography/bibliography in "Contemporary Authors," New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 232-240. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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Daughter of Alfred Kroeber (1876-1960), one of the founders of modern anthropology, and Theodora Kroeber Quinn (1897-1979).
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Has three children: Elisabeth Le Guin (b. 1957), Caroline Le Guin (b. 1959), and Theodore Le Guin (b. 1964).
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She met her husband in Paris, France, where they were both Fulbright scholars.
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Has lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1959.
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Best known for her stories of science fiction and fantasy.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Field of Vision
2011
Short short story
Gedo senki
2006
novel
Earthsea
TV Mini-Series 1 episode, 2005 novels "A Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Tombs of Atuan" - 1 episode, 2005
$950,000
