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The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, established in 2022, is an annual, English-language literary award presented in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin. The $25,000 prize is awarded to an author for a single work of "imaginative fiction". The award is meant to honor authors who "can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now". [1] [2]
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction was announced in October 2021. The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. The prize is worth US$25,000 and is awarded annually to "a single book-length work of imaginative fiction." [222] [223] The inaugural winner was Khadija Abdalla Bajaber for her book The House ...
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. She was primarily known for her works of speculative fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning feminist science fiction novel is about the icebound planet of Winter, "a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid."Genly, a human ...
The novel received mixed reviews. It won the 2024 Booker Prize [6] [7] and the Hawthornden Prize, [8] [9] and it was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction [10] and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for imaginative fiction. [11]
The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo , Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. [ 1 ]
Staunch Book Prize — Won [29] Walter Scott Prize — Shortlisted [30] 2020 International Dublin Literary Award — Longlisted [31] 2024 Orbital: Booker Prize — Won [22] Hawthornden Prize — Won [32] [33] The InWords Literary Award — Won [34] Orwell Prize: Political Fiction Shortlisted [35] Ursula K. Le Guin Prize — Shortlisted [36]
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels.A work of fiction is considered a novel by the organization if it is 40,000 words or longer; awards are also given out for pieces of shorter lengths, in the categories of short story, novelette, and novella.