An Ursula K. Le Guin Bibliography: Awards & Honors

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Fulbright fellowship 1953

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1968? 1969?

A Wizard of Earthsea

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1979

A Wizard of Earthsea

Horn Book honor list citation

A Wizard of Earthsea

American Library Association Notable Book citation

A Wizard of Earthsea

Howard D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1991

Hugo Awards (5) (Hugo Gernsback Science Fiction Achievement Award - "amateur" or "fan" awards) see "The Hugo Nominations and Wins of Ursula K. Le Guin"

1970: The Left Hand of Darkness
1970 (short story): "Winter's King" (nominated)
1972 (novel): The Lathe of Heaven (nominated)
1972 (short story): "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (nominated)
1973 (novella / short fiction): "The Word for World is Forest"
1974 (short story): "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973)
1975 (novel): The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
1975 (short story): "The Day Before the Revolution" (nominated)
1980 (non-fiction book): The Language of the Night, edited by Susan Wood (nominated)
1983 (short story): "Sur" (nominated)
1988 (novelette): "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?" (1987 in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences)
1989 (non-fiction book): Dancing at the Edge of the World (nominated)
1995 (novella): "Forgiveness Day" (nominated)
1995 (novelette): "The Matter of Seggri" (nominated)
1995 (novelette): "Solitude" (nominated)
1996 (novella): "A Man of the People" (nominated)
1996 (novella): "A Woman's Liberation" (nominated)
1997 (novelette): "Mountain Ways" (nominated)

Kafka Award

1983: Always Coming Home

National Book Award for Children's Books

1973: The Farthest Shore

Nebula Awards (5) (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)

1969 (novel): The Left Hand of Darkness
1974 (novel): The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
1990 (novel): Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1974 (short stories): "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974)
1995 (novelette): "Solitude" - Quoted at Science Fiction Weekly (5/6/96): "I'm amazed," Le Guin said during her acceptance speech. "It's such an introverted story and you're such a group of extroverts."

Newberry Honor

1972: The Finest Shore

Pilgrim Award - Awarded since 1970 by Science Fiction Research Association at its anual summer conference - for body of work.

1989

Publisher's Weekly Best Books.

Four Ways to Forgiveness listed in the Science Fiction Category of PW's list of 1995 Best Books.

Pushcart Prize

World Fantasy Award.

1995 Award for Live Achievement.

James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award

WisCon 20 (1995) Guest of Honor

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