Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Her published work includes poetry, short stories and novels. Among her novels are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both winners of the Nebula and Hugo awards, Always Coming Home, winner of the 1985 Kafka Award, and Four Ways to Forgiveness. Her short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, including Omni, Playboy and New Yorker, as well as two collections, The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose.
Her novels A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else and The Eye of the Heron are particular favourites among younger readers. Penguin/Puffin published the first volume of the six Earthsea books, A Wizard of Earthsea, in 1971. The three subsequent volumes are The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, which received the National Book Award for Children's Literature, and Tehanu. None of the volumes has ever been out of print, in both hard cover and paperback, since publication.
The books have been translated into many languages around the world. Ursula K. Le Guin died in 2018.
Her novels A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else and The Eye of the Heron are particular favourites among younger readers. Penguin/Puffin published the first volume of the six Earthsea books, A Wizard of Earthsea, in 1971. The three subsequent volumes are The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, which received the National Book Award for Children's Literature, and Tehanu. None of the volumes has ever been out of print, in both hard cover and paperback, since publication.
The books have been translated into many languages around the world. Ursula K. Le Guin died in 2018.
