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Official account for the celebrated author of novels, short stories, poetry, children’s books and essays.

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At Dirt, Meghna Rao considers Ursula's original website: "Her old domain locates an important moment, in which a personal website could be more than just a banner ad for work or a case of trophies—when it represented an attempt to translate something about the self into virtual space."

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The reissued The Language of the Night, with a new intro from Ken Liu, is now available from Scribner.

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🌟 In really lovely news, Space Crone won the 2024 Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction! 🌟

Congratulations to Silver Press and editors So Mayer and Sarah Shin.

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A new audiobook edition of The Left Hand of Darkness is now available from Recorded Books! The novel is narrated by Michael Crouch, with Ursula's author's note narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan.

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This hungry French Bookworm (a distant cousin, perhaps, of the Welsh we shared in April) was drawn by Ursula in a Multnomah County Library newsletter, circa 1981.

The newsletter is in the archive of Ursula’s papers at the University of Oregon library. Thanks to @rblemberg.bsky.social for the pic!

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Read more at Literary Arts: literary-arts.org/campaign/res...

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We're delighted to announce a new future for Ursula's home in Portland, Oregon. The Le Guin family will donate the house to Literary Arts as a site for the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. apnews.com/article/ursu...

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"To say that the Le Guin we meet in this book is argumentative, sometimes unfair, sometimes wrong and even self-contradictory is not to diminish her greatness. It is rather to rescue her from the dullness imposed on her by her canonization." —B.D. McClay in the Washington Post

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At last month's Seattle Art Book Fair, Winter Texts made a display weave of their latest editions of Ursula's works.

Get your own copies here: www.wintertexts.com

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Oops. (This note—surely somewhat relatable for many a writer—comes from Ursula's files at Radcliffe.)

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The anniversary edition will be available in paperback and hardcover: www.harpercollins.com/products/dis...

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2024 marks the 50th anniversary of The Dispossessed, which was first published in May of 1974. This November, an anniversary edition arrives on shelves, courtesy of Harper Perennial! Karen Joy Fowler provided the new foreword, and the cover art is by Muhammad Fatchurofi.

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Apparently Schrödinger’s Cat wasn't something people knew about until Ursula wrote about it. She knew, because she read about relativity and quantum mechanics while she was writing her physicist character in The Dispossessed.

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At LitHub, an excerpt from The Language of the Night — specifically, from "Talking About Writing"

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Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings was first published in 1994—which means the third Catwings tale is now 30 years old.

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Pard is perforce an indoor cat and thus has great curiosity about Nature. Recently he escaped for a short (discreetly monitored) walkabout.

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"The Space Crone" was originally published in 1976 in what was then called The CoEvolution Quarterly (and later called the Whole Earth Review). Currently, you can find it in Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove, 1989), and also in Space Crone, published by Silver Press last year.

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The Language of the Night is back on shelves! Ursula’s first collection of nonfiction was published in 1979, then released in a revised edition in 1992.

This edition, with the revised text, has a new introduction from Ken Liu and is published by Scribner. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-La...

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The Folio Society edition of The Other Wind arrives today, as part of the publisher's summer collection! Like the first five books of Earthsea, the Folio edition is illustrated by David Lupton. www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-othe...

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For comic relief, some spammy interweb weirdness this week: a hallucinated new character in Earthsea, and a WhatsApp call from another dimension (which reminds us, Inverse recently had a neat article about J. Michael Straczynski's dedication to bringing Harlan Ellison's work to the fore again).

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This is it! Nominations for this year's prize close at midnight (PDT) tonight. If you've read and loved a book that fit the criteria, we hope you'll nominate it!

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Incredible Good Fortune was published in 2006 by Shambhala

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"Politically she was an anarchist, religiously a Taoist, socially a feminist beyond feminism, and one of the most eloquent prophets against our despoliation of air, water, earth and its creatures, foliage, woodlands. Reading her I almost learn how it is to be a tree." —from Harold Bloom's intro

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One week left! You have through April 30th to nominate books for this year’s Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—nominations are open to all, and a single nomination can make all the difference. Which book will be the next winner of this $25,000 prize? www.ursulakleguin.com/prize24

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“The poet’s measures serve anarchic joy. The story-teller tells one story: freedom.” —from “Read at the Award Dinner, May 1996” Sixty Odd was published by Shambhala in 1999.

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Found in the attic. Cursory search of the archives of Willamette Week doesn’t turn up anything, but one remains intrigued.

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This charming specimen of a Welsh Bookworm was drawn by Ursula in a Multnomah County Library newsletter, circa 1981.

The newsletter is one of many items in the archive of Ursula’s papers at the University of Oregon library. Many thanks to @rblemberg.bsky.social for the pic!

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A one-third-of-the-way-through-the-month reminder: Nominations are open to absolutely everyone. If you read and loved a book that fits the bill, we hope you'll nominate it for the prize. You have through April 30th!

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There's a new audiobook of The Telling, read by Alyssa Bresnahan—and through April, it's on sale at Audiobooks. Maybe you want to spend a few days on a journey with Sutty, an Ekumen Observer from Earth, as she learns about a forbidden religion and hidden culture? www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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The recipient of this year's prize will be chosen by authors Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Ken Liu, and Carmen Maria Machado

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The Prize celebrates work reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work, including but not limited to: hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world.

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Nominations are now open for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize - and just one reader's nomination can make all the difference.

All the details, and the nomination form, are here: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize24

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New covers for Italian editions of A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, coming from Oscar/Mondadori. Art director: Fernando Ambrosi Graphic designer: Claudia Puglisi Cover art: Illustrazione (c) Jeugov Wizard translated by Ilva Tron Atuan translated by Maria Bastanzetti

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Pard in a customary position, watching and watched over.

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The Dispossessed—which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year—is included on The Atlantic's new list of the Great American Novels. Meng Jin writes, "More than a novel, this is an ontological work of extraordinary imagination and compassion."

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These illustrations by Mária Kekeláková are a selection of the images that will appear in an upcoming Czech edition of The Word for World is Forest. You can see more of her art here:

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Also available on YouTube @ursula.k.leguin

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Catching up on edits from a 1997 interview about The Left Hand of Darkness, here Ursula talks about the sound and rhythm of writing.

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The original Leo and Diane Dillon cover art for The Left Hand of Darkness was recently hand-delivered by bookseller Mark Funke (left) to the Eaton Collection at UC Riverside, where it will soon be on display. Many thanks to Dr. Phoenix Alexander (right) for the photo!

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Happy publication week to Five Novels! This new Library of America volume includes The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron, The Beginning Place, Searoad, and Lavinia.

Many thanks to Library of America for the photo.

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Since we can't post videos here (yet?), a cross-platform note: Over at Instagram (and on Facebook) we've been sharing clips from a 1997 interview Dr. Karen Mann did with Ursula, in which she discusses The Left Hand of Darkness and other topics. Here's the latest:

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For a limited time, the black-and-white print of Ursula's map of Earthsea is available at a lower price. All proceeds from the sale of these maps will be donated to the Freedom to Read Foundation! pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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