Ursula K. Le Guin

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Naissance :
21 octobre 1929
Décès :
22 janvier 2018

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to author Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Having earned a master's degree in French, Le Guin began doctoral studies but abandoned these after her marriage in 1953 to historian Charles Le Guin. She began writing full-time in the late 1950s and achieved major critical and commercial success with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), which have been described by Harold Bloom as her masterpieces. For the latter volume, Le Guin won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, …

Livres par Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin: Rocannons Welt (Paperback, German language, 1978, Heyne)

Rocannons Welt

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Ursula K. Le Guin: Tehanu (2004)

Tehanu

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2018, Orion Publishing Co)

The Left Hand of Darkness

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Eye of the Heron (Paperback, 2003, Starscape)

The Eye of the Heron

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