Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018

In collaboration with the Le Guin family, Literary Arts hosted a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin on June 13, 2018 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. The live event was sold out, and viewed by her fans around the world via a livestream.
The event featured tributes from writers and friends who represent the wide-ranging influence Le Guin has had on international literature for more than 50 years, including Margaret Atwood (by video), Molly Gloss, Walidah Imarisha, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Daniel José Older, Andrea Schulz (Le Guin's editor at Viking Books) and Julie Phillips (Le Guin's biographer). The tribute includes selected scenes from Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, a feature documentary film by Arwen Curry, along with photos and images from her life and work. The event also featured a recording of Child on the Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin and Alexander Skripko, the song-cycle ‘Lockerbones/Airbones’ by Elinor Armer and Ursula K. Le Guin is published by Subito Music Corporation, presented here with their permission. Performer credits: Wendy Hillhouse, mezzo-soprano; Esther Landau, flute; Rira Watanabe, violin; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano; Erica Johnson, percussion; Swineshead Recording Studio, Berkeley
Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Copyright 1981, 2012. All Rights reserved.
For the past 50 years, Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction and fantasy books offered hope and inspiration to readers and writers everywhere. Join Literary Arts and the Le Guin family as we celebrate the life of Ursula during this public tribute. Featured speakers, including writers and friends, will offer reflections and tributes honoring Ursula’s influence and legacy.
As a genre-defying writer, Ursula authored more than 50 works, including novels, poetry collections, and children’s books that explore issues of race, gender, and environmentalism. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many honors include the Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, and PEN-Malamud. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
While her speculative fiction urged readers to explore new worlds and distant futures, Ursula was an active guardian of her writing community and her home state of Oregon. She was an ardent supporter for writers and independent publishers and actively used her platform to defend free speech. Ursula was involved with Literary Arts for 31 years, as a participant, trusted advisor, and ardent supporter. Her dedication helped shape our programs that serve more than 20,000 readers and writers each year.
Thank you to our event sponsors James F and Marion L Miller Foundation, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, Harper Perennial, University of Oregon, and Curtis Brown, Ltd, and Simon & Schuster.

[@garylsimmons7255]

I love her so much!! As a black person, we are largely in an unrequited love affair with a genre of writing, that largely ignores us. Thank you Ursula K Le Guin for seeing me.

[@Ahopek]

"By continuing to read her, she is still with us." I still refuse to believe that I never got to meet her. Or perhaps I meet her every time I read.

[@ElliottHall]

"wicked smart, completely sane, and deeply kind" - Molly Gloss about Ursula Le Guin

[@lindah.9138]

Thank you Literary Arts for making this available to the internet. It brought tears to my eyes.

[@bearlincs]

Thank you so much for posting this tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. I found it very moving, especially some of the scenes from her early life with her family. She is one of my favourtie authors. I first read her in 1971. It was one of her early novels, 'City of Ilusions', that I found in my library and I greatly enjoyed it. I soon read the 'Earthsea' novels afterwards, and was beguiled by the beauty of her prose as much as anything else. When I was about fourteen, I read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and was completely taken with it; its world building, variety, and the central relationship. It has proved my favourite of hers ever since.

[@syncmonism]

My favourite as well

[@seaeaglerecords]

Thank you for making this available. She was and continues to be the brightest star in my universe, and has brought me so much joy and inspiration.

[@SDBartel]

This recording was an amazing discovery for me today! I found it after remembering her while learning about Asimov’s Foundation series coming out on Apple + soon. I hope that series does Asimov justice. I also wish Le Guin’s wealth of amazing stories could be brought to life in cinematic form with today’s technology in a way that does better justice to her talent than previous attempts that I’ve found (animated and live action, neither matches my mind’s view). Le Guin’s brilliance is still a strong influence in my life and I hope to see her stories continue to spread and strongly influence many others around the world.

[@eylulsvozden]

wish someone would add subtitles in turkish or english

[@nea0496]

Okay

[@taitealexandria5961]

youtube has that feature now it’s just done by ai so it’s not perfect

[@philipgregory5392]

'hoot' 'hoot' -? then saw the tenni-shoes....tie and exec dir title threw me for a second

[@dadafan5921]

I just went on Amazon to buy the Earthsea Trilogy. The books are only available (in Kindle) as individual titles. A quick scan of all titles available leads me to believe the heirs have set it up to maximize profit. I wonder what she would think of the bloodsuckers.

[@End-Result]

I mean, fair point, but you bought them off of Amazon. Why not buy them through your local (radical) bookstore?

[@seanbachet1215]

There

[@lindah.9138]

Many of the book-selling conditions are set by publishers, not the writer or writer's family. So please don't blame the wrong people. Also, I recommend you to buy them from Powell's Books, Portland's legendary independent bookstore, and one of Le Guin's favorite places. You can buy used or new books and they come in all different editions.

[@cpb5480]

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

[@Heloiase]

Bari ingilizce altyazi ekleseydiniz

[@sonikpvl5949]

q pedo

[@Danlovar]

She is not that important.

[@lindah.9138]

To people who do not read, of course she's not important.

[@satwikmishra9589]

Who according to you is important? A stupid/untalented singer like Bieber?