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Gifts

Gifts

by Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin and Ursula K. LeGuin
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2004

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ISBN:
9781842551073
9781842551073
Category:
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-12-2004
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
225x141x30mm
Weight:
0.48kg
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor.

Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel.

In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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 twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, seven volumes of poetry and four of translation.

Among her best-known novels are The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home and Lavinia.

She held five Hugo and six Nebula Awards, the last for Powers in 2009, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous work of fantasy is the Earthsea series. The books have been translated into many languages around the world. She died in January 2018, aged 88.

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