Update: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber was named winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for “The House of Rust” on Friday night. “Scene after scene is gleaming, textured, utterly devoid ...

Over dinner a few months ago with some musician and writer friends outside of Portland, a conversation about songwriting turned into a conversation about poetry, which led me to ask two of the writers ...

Ursula Le Guin wrote about fellow fantasy author JK Rowling, “The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers.” I didn't originate ...

The Portland author elevated her genres to high literature and amplified women's voices while also advocating for libraries and literary organizations. Whether you're reading Le Guin for the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Ursula K. Le Guin, an American author of novels and children's books, poses for a photo at home on Sept. 9, 2001, in ...

Mark your calendar for 2026. That’s when the first and only authorized biography of the late Portland literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin is scheduled to be published by Virago, a British publisher that ...

In the highest reaches of the starry pantheon of science fiction and fantasy resides Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), master of many literary genres and forms: short stories, essays, speeches, ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — To the rest of the world, Ursula K. Le Guin was a groundbreaking author, winner of the National Book Award and multiple Hugo awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. But inside a ...

.Her first home, however, was the city of Berkeley, California. Born Ursula Kroeber in 1929, Le Guin grew up in ‘40s-era Berkeley and recalled a city that was just starting to come into itself. Her ...

The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human. By Pierce Brown The author of the Southern Reach novels ...