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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Born: October 20 1929

Died: 2121 01 20182018

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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 , political systems 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 mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. The Hainish Cycle reflects the anthropologist's experience of immersing themselves in new strange cultures since most of their main characters and narrators are envoys from a humanitarian organization, the Ekumen, sent to investigate or ally themselves with the people of a different world and learn their ways.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Books from Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Farthest Shore

The Tombs of Atuan

The Dispossessed

Tehanu

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Tales from Earthsea

The Other Wind

The Word for World Is Forest

Catwings

City of Illusions

Changing Planes

Again, Dangerous Visions

Four Ways to Forgiveness

Meditations on Middle-Earth

The Lathe of Heaven

Brave New Worlds

The Eye of the Heron

Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions