Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [ ɝsələ kʁø: bɐ ləgwɪn ] ( born October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California, USA, as Ursula Kroeber ) is an American author primarily fantastic and utopian literature ( science fiction and fantasy ).

Life

Ursula K. Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and Professor of Anthropology Alfred Louis Kroeber. She grew up in Berkeley and Napa Valley, studied literature at Harvard University, and focused in particular on the Italian and French Renaissance, what they published some literary theoretical work ( and the subject of later literary processed in their stories from Orsinien and Malafrena ). She received in 1952 from Columbia University with a master's degree with a thesis on Pierre de Ronsard. 1953 she married the professor of history Charles A. Le Guin. Since 1962 she works as a writer in Portland (Oregon ) and teaches at the University.

Work

Although many of her books are set on distant planets, but treat issues that are universally significant. (See also her introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness. ) Her work includes in addition to many novels and children's books, essays, literature reviews and translations.

She has received a number of awards for her books, including several times the two leading international awards for science fiction literature, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. The left hand of darkness and Planet of the have-nots each won both prizes, along with Tehanu Powers and the Nebula Award and the word for world is forest the Hugo Award. In 1985, she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize from the University of Rochester. Between 1972-2009 she also won a total of four Locus Awards. 1988 and 2002 she received the World Fantasy Award. For her life's work in 1979, she received the Gandalf Grand Master Award, the 2003 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the 2004 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association.

Bibliography

Hainish cycle

• Rocannon 's World ( 1966) Rocannons World, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30473- X
• Planet of Exile (1966 ) The tenth year, 1978, ISBN 3-453-30511-6
• City of Illusion (1967 ) City of Illusions, 1979, ISBN 3-453-30590-6
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969 ) Winter planet and reissued as The Left Hand of Darkness, 1979, ISBN 3-453-16415-6 - Hugo Award and Nebula Award
• The Dispossessed (1974 ) Planet of the have-nots and reissued as The Dispossessed, 1976, ISBN 3-937-89720-8 - Hugo Award and Nebula Award
• The Word for World is Forest (1976 ) The Word for World is Forest, 1976, ISBN 3-886-19927-4 - Hugo Award
• The Telling (2000) The narrators, 2000, ISBN 3-453-18861-6

Earthsea Cycle

• A Wizard of Earthsea (1968 ) The Magician of Earthsea, 1979, ISBN 3-492-29143-0
• The Tombs of Atuan (1970 ) The Tombs of Atuan, 1979, ISBN 3-551-58089-8
• The Farthest Shore (1972 ) The far shore, 1979, ISBN 3-492-29150-3 - National Book Award
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990 ) Tehanu, 1992, ISBN 3-453-06233-7 - Nebula Award
• Tales from Earthsea (2001) The Legacy of Earthsea, ISBN 3-492-28541-4
• The Other Wind (2001) Return to Earthsea, 2003, ISBN 3-492-28542-2

Chronicles of the Western Shore

• Voices (2006)
• Powers ( 2007)

Single novels

• The Lathe of Heaven ( 1971) The Scourge of Heaven, 1974, ISBN 3- 937-89716 -X
• The Eye of the Heron (1978 )
• The Beginning Place (1980, also known as Threshold) The Wunschtal, 1984, ISBN 3-453-21385-8
• Always Coming Home (1985 )
• Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991) Rain Woman, 2001, ISBN 3-453-18271-5
• A Ride on the Red Mare 's Back (1992 )
• Blue Moon over Thurman Street ( 1993)
• Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995 )
• Changing Planes (2003)
• Lavinia (2008) Lavinia, 2009, ISBN 0-156-03368-2

Various novels

• Very Far Away from Anywhere Else ( 1976) ( German: Next year in September )
• A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else (1976 )
• Malafrena ( 1979) ( German: Malafrena )

Short story collections

• The Wind 's Twelve Quarters (1975 ) The twelve strokes of the wind rose, Heyne Verlag, Munich 1980, Library of Science Fiction Literature Volume 25, ISBN 3-453-30964-2
• Orsinian Tales (1976 ) Stories of Orsinien. Science Fiction stories from a fictitious country, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31188-4
• The Compass Rose ( 1982) The compass rose, Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1985, Library of Science Fiction Literature Volume 47, ISBN 3-453-31156-6
• Buffalo Gals, Will not You Come Out Tonight ( 1987)
• The Earthsea Quartet ( 1993)
• Science Fiction Stories ( 1994)
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994 ) A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, 1998, ISBN 3-924-95945-5
• Unlocking the Air ( 1996)
• The Birthday of the World (2002)
• Changing Planes (2003)

Children's Books

• Leese Webster (1979 )
• A Visit from Dr. Katz ( 1988)
• Fire and Stone (1989 )
• Fish Soup (1992 )
• A Ride on the Red Mare 's Back (1992 )
• Tom Mouse ( 2002)

Catwings

• Catwings (1988 )
• Catwings Return ( 1989)
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994 )
• Jane on her Own ( 1999)
• Tales of the Catwings (1996 )
• More Tales of the Catwings (2000)

Adventures in Kroy

• The Adventures of Cobbler's Rune (1982 )
• Solomon Leviathan 's Nine Hundred and Thirty- First Trip Around the World (1983 )

Poetry

• Hard Words: And Other Poems (1981 )
• In the Red Zone (1983 )
• Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems (1987 )
• Going Out ​​With Peacocks: And Other Poems (1994 )
• Sixty Odd: New Poems (1999)
• Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems (2006)

Non-fiction

• From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973 )
• Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975 )
• The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction ( 1979)
• Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the mutinous crew (1984 )
• The Way of the Water's Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range (1989 )
• The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
• Cheek by Jowl (2009)
• Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009)