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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 ...
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 ]
The Past is Red was nominated for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella, [7] 2022 Locus Award for Best Novella, [8] and inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. [ 9 ] References
It received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award [1] [2] and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize [3] for best first book in any genre. It was also awarded the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, [4] and was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. [5]
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 ...
Graywolf Press Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is a Mombasa -born poet and novelist with a degree in journalism whose manuscript was selected as the first winner of the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, [ 1 ] awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa.
The novel contains a frame story about a grandchild listening to stories of the Old Country; it also tells the story of two men who journey across the Old Country with a dying goddess. It is Jimenez's sophomore novel. The novel received critical acclaim, including being shortlisted for the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.