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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Let her have her Nobel Prize. Meanwhile, take it from one of the new generation of readers -- Gaiman, King, Pratchett, Rowling, Martin, Sanderson, etc. actually get read. I wonder which one authors prefer?
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Of course they have all read LeGuin and been influenced by her.
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“I learned from her the difference between Elfland and Poughkeepsie," Gaiman continued, “and I learned when to use the language of one, and when to use the language of another.” He learned about the usage of language, and its intersection with issues of social justice and feminism. Starting out on Sandman, Gaiman began to ask himself, whenever a new character appeared: “Is there any reason why this character couldn’t be a woman? And if there was no reason, then they were. Life got easy.” Le Guin, Gaiman went on, “made me a better writer, and I think much more importantly, she made me a much better person who wrote.”
Le Guin is a writer who transcends genre, writing science fiction, fantasy, and mainstream fiction; writing for children, adults, and all those in between; dealing deftly with both huge, cosmic ideas and everyday issues on a human scale. She is “a giant of literature, who is finally getting recognized,” Gaiman concluded, “and I take enormous pleasure in awarding the 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution for American Letters to Ursula K. Le Guin.”
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