In 2000, the Library of Congress named Le Guin a Living Legend for her significant contributions to America’s cultural heritage, and in 2014, Le Guin was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, whose past winners include Toni Morrison, John Ashbery, and Joan Didion. Her countless awards include a National Book Award, a Pen/Malamud Award, six Nebulas, five Hugos, and twenty-one Locus Awards (from her 1973 Lathe of Heaven to her 2010 Cheek by Jowl, the most Locus Awards by any writer to date). Le Guin is the author of more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation. Le Guin, nor their influence upon and importance to the world of literature at large. It would be hard to overstate the accomplishments of Ursula K.
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