Ursula Kroeber Guin ˈkʁø: bɐ ləˈgɛ̃}} - more generally called Ursula K. Guin - is a author American born the October 21st 1929 with Berkeley, in California. Although she wrote many novels, poems and books for children, she is especially known for her news and novels of Science-fiction in which she explores in an original way of the anarchistic topics, feminist, psychological or sociological.

Biography

Ursula Guin is the girl of the anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber and of the écrivaine Theodora Kroeber. She lives with Portland, in Oregon, since 1958. Its interest for the literature is declared very early since to 11 years it subjects already a first history (refused) to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Its studies proceed with the Harvard University' S Radcliffe College , with the Université Columbia in New York then in France where it meets her husband, Charles Guin, of Breton origin (LeGuin, of Guen, of gwenn, white). It presents in 1952 a thesis on the ideas of died in the poetry of Ronsard . Its first writings do not relate to the fantastic history of imaginary regions but these are the latter which will enable him to publish regularly starting from the Années 1960. Its first remarkable novel is Rocannon' S world in 1966. The author becomes famous starting from the publication in 1969 of his novel the Left hand of the night which receives the prices Hugo and Nebula.

Work

The majority of its science-fictitious writings are characterized by the importance which they attach to social sciences like the Sociologie or the Anthropologie. Its works often deliver a message on ourself via the invention of unusual extraterrestrial cultures. A typical example is the study of the sexual identity in the Left hand of the night . In addition, the auteure is known for its capacity to create credible and populated worlds very human characters. Thus, its works in the field of the Fantasy (the cycle of Terremer) are centered much on the human condition than those of other authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, even if they share the idea, specific to many accounts belonging to this kind, of a “true king” who must save the world and restore justice.

In 2002, the Prix Nebula decrees to him the title of large Master of the Science-fiction.

Works

the cycle of Terremer

the cycle of Ekumen

Other

  • the Other Side of the dream
  • the gold book of the science fiction: Ursula Guin (republished under the name Stars the depths ): Collection of news
      • Préface of Gerard Klein
      • Remarques on the translation of Jean Bailhache
    • the collar of Semle
    • April in Paris
    • the rule of the names
    • the king de Nivôse
    • Last nine lives
    • Plus vastee that an empire
    • Stars the depths
    • Field of view
    • the oak and death
    • the day before the revolution
    • Those which speak about Omelas
  • the four winds of the desire : Collection of news
    • the author of seeds of acacia
    • the news Atlantis
    • the Cat of Schrödinger
    • Two delays on the Northern line
    • the Test
    • a part of a penny
    • First report/ratio of the foreign shipwrecked man in Kadan de Derb
    • the newspaper of the Rose
    • the white ass
    • the Phoenix
    • Intraphone
    • the eye transfigured
    • Labyrinthes
    • the paths of the Desire
    • the toothing-stone of Gwilan
    • Malheur County
    • water is vast
    • the account of his wife
    • Some approaches with the problem of the lack of time
    • On
  • Malafrena , Chronic Actes Sud
  • orsiniennes
  • the Valley of the eternal return
  • Far, very far from all
  • flying Cats
  • the Return of the flying cats
  • the Beginning of nowhere
  • the Birthday of the world

Quotation

The ethnologist cannot always erase his own shade of the table only it paints

External bonds

Official site (in)

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