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Legendary novelist and short fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at her home in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 88. In her long career, Le Guin wrote a bit of everything: fiction, essays, books for young people, a craft manual, and ten volumes of poetry. She wrote fantasy, SF, realism, yes, but mostly she 
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In A Wizard of Earthsea, published in 1968, Usula K Le Guin created one of literature’s most fully formed fantasy worlds. The author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks recalls how he fell under its spell
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Her books included “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the acclaimed Earthsea series for young adults.
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Obituary from The Washington Post
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It's taken six decades for this early novel by the Portuguese great to reach publication. Now it illuminates the development of a radically original artist, writes Ursula K Le Guin
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For the past 57 years, one of the most original imaginations ever to grace American letters has lived in a hundred-year-old house built from a kit from Sears. "You could order it out of a catalogue," its owner, the writer Ursula K. Le Guin, told me three years ago. It's late 2014 and Le Guin—the writer who invented
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John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary biannual published by Grove, and author of 'How to Read a Novelist' and 'Maps', a collection of poems.
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"One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise." An interview with SF great Ursula K. Le Guin.
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She melded dragons and wizards with spaceships to tackle earth-bound issues of gender and class.
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Obituary from the BBC
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