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  • Published: 5 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612197791
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $40.00
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview

and Other Conversations



Ursula K. Le Guin was one of our most imaginative writers, a radical thinker, and a feminist icon. The interviews collected here span 40 years of her pioneering and prolific career.

“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
 
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed “genre” literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from fashionable East Coast publishing circles. The interviews collected here—spanning a remarkable forty years of productivity, and covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to Le Guin envisioning the end of capitalism—highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.

  • Published: 5 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612197791
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $40.00
Categories:

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Le Guin was bornin Berkley, California, in 1929, daughter of the writer Theodora Krober and theanthropologist Alfred Krober. Her published work includes twenty-one novels,eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books forchildren, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. Among her novels arethe The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both winners of the Nebula and Hugoawards, Always Coming Home, winner of the 1985 Kafka Award,and Four Ways to Forgiveness. In 2009 she won her sixth Nebulaaward for Powers. She died in January 2018 aged 88.

Penguin/Puffin published the first volume ofthe Earthsea books, A Wizard of Earthsea, in 1971. The Earthsea books have been translatedinto many languages around the world and are global bestsellers.
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Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview

"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is."--Margaret Atwood

"She influenced a whole generation of writers who came after her, including me."--George R. R. Martin

"Literature will miss her. There's no one like her."--Zadie Smith