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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Ok, LeGuin is not awful. Dreadful would be a better word and she should be outstanding in a field instead of writing the dreck she writes.
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Well, there may be other people who consider Le Guin to be "dreadful", but I suspect you're on your Pat Malone, cobber.
Le Guin has received 5 Hugo awards and 6 Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003. She received 19 Locus Awards for her fiction, more than any other author. The World Fantasy Awards presented her with Lifetime Achievement in 1995. She won the 1973 National Book Award in category Children's Books.
Le Guin was the Professional Guest of Honor at the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention. She received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the "Writers and Artists" category for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. In 2004, Le Guin received the Association for Library Service to Children's May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret Edwards Award. She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers in 2006.
Le Guin was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 2002, Le Guin received the PEN/Malamud Award for "excellence in a body of short fiction."