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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in March, 2002, by HarperCollins. All of the stories, except "Paradises Lost", were previously published individually elsewhere. The story which lends its name to the title of the collection was the most recent ...
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; [1] née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.
This country, "Orsinia", appears in Le Guin's earliest writings, [7] [8] and was invented by le Guin when she was a young adult learning her craft as a writer. [9] The names Orsinia and Ursula are both derived from Latin ursus "bear" (ursula = diminutive of ursa "female bear"; ursinus = "bear-like"). Le Guin once said that since Orsinia was her ...
Feminist critiques of her writing were particularly influential upon Le Guin's later work. [3] Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first short story was "An die Musik", in 1961; both were set in her fictional country of Orsinia.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, [1] and first published by Harper & Row in 1975.
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as ...
"A Man of the People" is one of four connected short stories in Ursula K. Le Guin's Four Ways to Forgiveness.It details the early life, training with the Ekumenical ...
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