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Image:UrsulaLeGuin.01.jpg|thumb|225px|Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an United States|American author. Although she has written novels, poetry, children's literature|children's books, and essays, she is best known for her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories|short stories. Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1958. The daughter of the anthropology|anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber, she is noted for her exemplary style and for her exploration of Taoism|Taoist, anarchism|anarchist, Feminism|feminist, psychology|psychological and sociology|sociological themes. First published in the 1960s, she is now regarded as one of the best modern science fiction authors. She has received several Hugo Award|Hugo and Nebula Award|Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Award|Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Nebula|Grand Master Award in 2003. Le Guin became interested in literature when she was very young. At the age of eleven she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (it was rejected). She attended Harvard University's Radcliffe College and Columbia University, graduating with an Master's degree|M.A. She later studied in France, where she met her husband, Charles Le Guin. Her earliest writings (little was published at the time, but some was published in adapted form much later in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena), were non-fantastic stories of fictional country|imaginary countries. Searching for a publishable way to express her interests, she returned to her early interest in science fiction and began to be published regularly in the early 1960s. She became famous after the publication of her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo Award|Hugo and Nebula Award|Nebula awards. Much of Le Guin's science fiction is distinctive in its strong emphasis on the social sciences, including sociology and anthropology. Her writing often makes use of unusual Extraterrestrial life|alien cultures to convey a message about our own culture; one example is the exploration of sexual identity through the Hermaphrodite|hermaphroditic race in The Left Hand of Darkness. A number of Le Guin's science fiction works, including her award-winning novels The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, are set in the far future, in a post-Imperial galactic civilisation governed by a co-operative body known as the Ekumen. A notable feature of her conception that sets her work apart from mainstram SF is that neither the old Empire nor the Ekumen possesses faster-than-light travel, although the politically progressive Ekumen thrives where the old Empire has failed partly because it possesses a means of instantaneous trans-galactic text communication, through a device called the ansible, the invention and consequences of which form the main plot of "The Disposessed". In this loose background scenario, a Galactic Empire has expanded far out across the galaxy over many centuries but, because it lacks FTL travel, it is finally stretched beyond its limits by the vast distances involved and the Empire collapses catastrophically. Thousands of years pass, during which time the populations of many outlying planets become so isolated from the central galactic civilisation that they lose all knowledge of their origins, reverting to more archaic forms of civilisation and technology. A number of Le Guin's works including "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Word For World is Forest" deal with the consequences of the arrival of Ekumen envoys (known as "mobiles") on these remote planets and the culture shock that ensues. Despite her many awards and her considerable popularity, Le Guin is also notable as one of the few major science fiction writers of her generation whose major sci-fi works work have not as yet been widely adapted for film or television. For television, "Lathe of Heaven" has been adapted twice, in 1980 by WNET|thirteen/WNET New York and in 2002 by the A&E Network; The Earthsea trilogy was adapted as a TV miniseries in 2004 by the SciFi Channel but was generally very poorly reviewed. A cinema adaptation of Earthsea is in production at Nihongo|Studio Ghibli|:ja:?????????????????????|?????????????????????|, under the direction of Nihongo|Goro Miyazaki|????????????|Miyazaki Gorō, son of renowned anime director Nihongo|Hayao Miyazaki|:ja:?????????|?????????|Miyazaki Hayao; Nihongo|Ged War Story: Tales from Earthsea|:ja:????????????|????????????|Gedo Senki is slated for Japanese release in July 2006. http://www.ghibli.jp Le Guin is known for her ability to create believable worlds populated by strongly sympathetic characters (regardless of whether they are technically 'human'). Her fantasy works (such as the Earthsea series) are much more concerned with the human condition than works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien. Le Guin has also written fiction set much closer to home; many of her short stories are set in our world in the present or the near future. Earthsea (fantasy) The Earthsea novels
Note: Tales from Earthsea fits between Tehanu and The Other Wind, according to http://www.ursulakleguin.com/OtherWind_Note.html this important note on Le Guin's website. The Earthsea short stories
Ekumen (science fiction) Novels of the Ekumen
Short stories from the Ekumen
Miscellaneous novels and story cycles
Short story collections
Books for children and young adults The Catwings Collection
Other books for children and young adults
Prose
Poetry
Translations and Renditions
Le Guin is a prolific author and has published many works that are not listed here. Many works were originally published in science fiction literary magazines. Those that have not since been anthologized have fallen into obscurity. In a February 2004 on-line Q&A session organized by The Guardian, Le Guin was asked whether she pronounced her surname the French phonology|French way (IPA2|l??g????) or as most of her English-speaking fans did (IPA2|l????gw??n). Her reply was Taoist in its duality: "Een zees country we say Luh Gwinn. En France nous disons Le Guin, comme le vin or le gain; et en Brittany|Bretagne - c'est un nom Breton language|breton - je crois que c'est encore Luh Gwinn. (Like Gwyn in Welsh language|Welsh - I think it's the same word.)" http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1144428,00.html
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