RETROSPEC He describes his view of Portland State's development from a small college to a large urban university, the professional, social, and cultural environments of the downtown campus, and the founding of pioneering academic programs such as University Studies and the Honors College. I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies. Ursula K. Le Guin signing books at at Portland State University, May 2010. [85][194] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted her in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers. [42] Her first professional publication was the short story "April in Paris" in 1962 in Fantastic Science Fiction,[43] and seven other stories followed in the next few years, in Fantastic or Amazing Stories. The University Archives has teamed with the Retirement Association of Portland State (RAPS) and other campus stakeholders in an ongoing effort to capture the first-person insight of those instrumental to the development and success of Portland State. [136] The story is set on the fictional planet of Gethen, whose inhabitants are ambisexual humans with no fixed gender identity, who adopt female or male sexual characteristics for brief periods of their sexual cycle. Several of Le Guins novels and stories make use of the Oregon landscape. Article. It received critical praise,[78] won Le Guin a third Nebula Award for Best Novel,[79] and led to the series being recognized among adult literature. The house where Le Guin has lived for more than fifty years has, in certain respects, come to resemble its owner. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. I read the story "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard", and it just made me go, "Wow! Copyright by Marian Wood Kolisch, Courtesy Oregon Hist. The stamp features a portrait of the author taken from a 2006 photograph against a background image inspired by her book The Left Hand of Darkness. In recent novels, such as The Other Wind, she grapples with aging and death. [142] Le Guin's portrayal of gender in Earthsea was also described as perpetuating the notion of a male-dominated world; according to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Le Guin saw men as the actors and doers in the [world], while women remain the still centre, the well from which they drink". [137] Which sex they adopt can depend on context and relationships. [169] Unlike classical utopias, the society of Anarres is portrayed as neither perfect nor static; the protagonist Shevek finds himself traveling to Urras to pursue his research. Charles Le Guin, Ph.D. 1956, has written from Portland, Oregon. [24] It is listed as No. Ursula K. Le Guin (b. Le Guin recalls Portland State's development from a small college to a large urban university and changes which occurred in departmental structure and campus culture as the school grew. The award is managed by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and a panel of jurors. Her speech received widespread media attention within and outside the US, and was broadcast twice by National Public Radio. Some portions of the interview have been edited for relevance to PSU history. PSU Oral Histories. [5] Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, and the poetry volume So Far So Good: Final Poems 20142018, all of which were released after her death. Portland State University, Privacy Accessibility Statement Her son said that she had been in poor health for several months, and stated that it was likely she had had a heart attack. Le Guin once recalled that their summer house was "an old, tumble-down ranch in the Napa Valley . RETROSPEC He describes his view of Portland State's development from a small college to a large urban university, the professional, social, and cultural environments of the downtown campus, and the founding of pioneering academic programs such as University Studies and the Honors College. [30][37][38], Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first published short story was "An die Musik", in 1961; both were set in her fictional country of Orsinia. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. [40] Even the critically well-received The Left Hand of Darkness, in addition to critique from feminists,[185] was described by Alexei Panshin as a "flat failure". Chuck Becker discusses the department's founding years at Vanport and its differentiation from the Athletics program, for which he also served as a football coach. A modified version originally ran in the SFWA Singularity #71. Her parents were Alfred Kroeber, a prominent and influential American anthropologist, and the writer Theodora Kroeber, widely known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe in California. Le Guin often subverted typical speculative fiction tropes, such as through her use of dark-skinned protagonists in Earthsea, and also used unusual stylistic or structural devices in books such as the experimental work Always Coming Home (1985). . [40][69][70] She also published Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, a realistic novel for adolescents,[71] as well as the collection Orsinian Tales and the novel Malafrena in 1976 and 1979, respectively. [228][229] The opera was composed by Stephen A. Taylor;[228] the libretto has been attributed both to Kate Gale[230] and to Marcia Johnson. [22] She taught courses at Tulane University, Bennington College, and Stanford University, among others. Special Collections & University Archives [176] Set in the Hainish universe, the five stories together examine revolution and reconstruction in a slave-owning society. Very, very fattening. [and] a gathering place for scientists, writers, students, and California Indians. Le Guin was positive about the aesthetic of the film, writing that "much of it was beautiful", but was critical of the film's moral sense and its use of physical violence, and particularly the use of a villain whose death provided the film's resolution. [15], Le Guin's fellow authors also praised her writing. He joined the faculty of Portland State College in 1959, when most of the campus classrooms, offices, and facilities were still located in the former Lincoln High School Building in downtown Portland, and the college's first new building, Cramer Hall, was still only partially built. [75] In 1985 she published the experimental work Always Coming Home. [201][202] The Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work: the 2004 panel cited the first four Earthsea volumes, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Beginning Place. [195] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named her its 20th Grand Master in 2003: she was the second, and as of 2019[update] one of only six, women to receive that honor. This recognition allows them to take a third choice, and leave. [132] Cadden suggests that this method leads to younger readers sympathizing directly with the characters, making it an effective technique for young-adult literature. Speculative fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin lived in northwest Portland from 1958 until her death in 2018, having moved to the city after her husband, the historian Charles Le Guin, was hired as an instructor at Portland State University. [6][33][99] Mitchell, author of books such as Cloud Atlas, described A Wizard of Earthsea as having a strong influence on him, and said that he felt a desire to "wield words with the same power as Ursula Le Guin". Among the things that amazes me most, he writes, is the size of the department: from 1950-56, the period when I was doing my degree, I can recall only ten faculty: Mathews, Major, Posey (shared with Agnes Scott as I recall), Duncan, Rabun, Cuttino, Benjamin, McLean, Wiley, and Young. Le Guin describes his studies: "I came to Emory to pursue my PhD in 1950 and Joseph Mathews undertook to guide me to my degree: it took a whilea Fulbright and some teachingbefore that was accomplished. [193] Other awards won by Le Guin include three James Tiptree Jr. This included speculative fiction in the form of the novel The Eye of the Heron, which, according to Le Guin, may be a part of the Hainish universe. Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Charles Le Guin, Ph.D. 1956, has written from Portland, Oregon. Born in 1929 in Berkeley, California, Ursula Le Guin is the daughter of the writer Theodora Kroeber and anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. [6] Le Guin's own literary criticism proved influential; her 1973 essay "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" led to renewed interest in the work of Kenneth Morris, and eventually to the publication of a posthumous novel by Morris. It is far too rationalist and simplistic to satisfy the imaginative mind, whether the writer's or the reader's. Several of her works are informed by Taoist principles of duality, by Jungian concepts of dream and shadow, and by the anthropological and sociological concerns that were a formative part of her life. The society, created by settlers from Urras, is materially poorer than the wealthy society of Urras, but more ethically and morally advanced. Le Guin's writing was enormously influential in the field of speculative fiction, and has been the subject of intense critical attention. . We will need writers who can remember freedom. [65][66] The fiction of the period 1966 to 1974, which also included The Lathe of Heaven, the Hugo Award-winning "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and the Nebula Award-winning "The Day Before the Revolution",[67] constitutes Le Guin's best-known body of work. "[151] She also said that fantasy was best suited as a medium for describing coming of age, because exploring the subconscious was difficult using the language of "rational daily life". The society of the Kesh has been identified by scholars as a feminist utopia, which Le Guin uses to explore the role of technology. [53], Her writing was recognized by the popular media and by commentators. Le Guin in Paris during their Fulbright Fellowships 1958 Moves with her husband and children to Portland, thanks to Charles's teaching position at Portland State College (now Portland State University) 1968 Publishes A Wizard of Earthsea PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. Wim Wiewel was interviewed on August 2, 2017, by Chris Broderick, at Portland State University. Copyright, Special Collections & University Archives. [40][94][95], Once I learned to read, I read everything. The Kroebers redwood home in Berkeley was a place of books, music, storytelling, and discussion. TX Big Read, 2008. London: Routledge, 2004. In the space of six years came A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Dispossessed (1974). He has looked over the departments website. In 1958, the Le Guins settled in Portland, Oregon, where Charles took a permanent position as a professor of French history at Portland State University. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored . Other authors she enjoyed were Lord Dunsany and Lewis Padgett. [85] At the 1995 World Fantasy Convention she won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, a judged recognition of outstanding service to the fantasy field. He and Thomas E. Mullen (Ph.D. 1959) have remained good friends. They moved to Portland and had three children. [162] This wrestling with choice has been compared to the choices the characters are forced to make in Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". Two releases in late July were single issues, one featuring author and poet Ursula K. Le Guin and the other featuring Raven Story, an important traditional story among Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. Le Guin, a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, received his Master's degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and his Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta. Ursula K. Le Guin, in the introduction to the 1976 edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. [85] She won her final Hugo award a year after her death, for a complete edition of Earthsea, illustrated by Charles Vess; the same volume also won a Locus award. Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed the death. [31][32], Le Guin once said she was "raised as irreligious as a jackrabbit". [85][189] Le Guin won twenty-four Locus Awards,[85] voted for by subscribers of Locus Magazine,[190] and as of 2019[update] was joint third for total wins, as well as second behind Neil Gaiman, for the number of wins for works of fiction. Le Guin, Charles and Petrocelli, Heather Oriana, "Interview with Charles Le Guin" (2017). [103] Le Guin has been credited with "[rescuing] anarchism from the cultural ghetto to which it has been consigned", and helping to bring it into the intellectual mainstream. Ursula K. Le Guin. [74][75] She also revisited Earthsea, publishing Tehanu in 1990: coming eighteen years after The Farthest Shore, during which Le Guin's views had developed considerably, the book was grimmer in tone than the earlier works in the series, and challenged some ideas presented therein. Bill Lemman has been affiliated with Portland State from its inception. [8][10][11], Le Guin had three older brothers: Karl, who became a literary scholar, Theodore, and Clifton. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. Dr. Charles A. [55][56] A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness have been described by critic Harold Bloom as Le Guin's masterpieces. [105], Philosophical Taoism had a large role in Le Guin's world view,[110] and the influence of Taoist thought can be seen in many of her stories. [14][100], The discipline of cultural anthropology had a powerful influence on Le Guin's writing. [147] This volume was described as a rewriting or reimagining of The Tombs of Atuan, because the power and status of the female protagonist Tenar are the inverse of what they were in the earlier book, which was also focused on her and Ged. [129], Several of Le Guin's works have featured stylistic or structural features that were unusual or subversive. [141][145][146] "Coming of Age in Karhide" was later anthologized in the 2002 collection The Birthday of the World, which contained six other stories featuring unorthodox sexual relationships and marital arrangements. > Dr. Charles A. Accessibility Statement PORTLAND, Ore. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. Charles Le Guin (Q24823165) French-American historian Charles A. 1929), American writer, essayist, poet and author of novels, children's books and short stories. Dr. Charles A. [206], Le Guin had a considerable influence on the field of speculative fiction; Jo Walton argued that Le Guin played a large role in both broadening the genre and helping genre writers achieve mainstream recognition. PORTLAND, Ore. Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. [6], The accolades Le Guin has received include numerous annual awards for individual works. Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like "The Left Hand of Darkness" and. Portland State University Oral History: Interview with Charles Le Guin Portland State University 16.4K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K views 3 years ago Dr. Charles A. He and Thomas E. Mullen (Ph.D. 1959) have remained good friends. [5] In 2016, The New York Times described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer". Curry launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to finish the documentary in early 2016 after winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [82] It was described by scholar Sandra Lindow as "so transgressively sexual and so morally courageous" that Le Guin "could not have written it in the '60s". Since 1958, Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Charles Le Guin, whom she married in Paris in 1953. [186] Praise for Le Guin frequently focused on the social and political themes her work explored,[187] and for her prose; literary critic Harold Bloom described Le Guin as an "exquisite stylist", saying that in her writing, "Every word was exactly in place and every sentence or line had resonance". [124][125] A number of science fiction authors have objected to the term "soft science fiction", describing it as a potentially pejorative term used to dismiss stories not based on problems in physics, astronomy, or engineering, and also to target the writing of women or other groups under-represented in the genre. Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. [40][76], Gender and sexuality are prominent themes in a number of Le Guin's works. Accompanying them were two former School of Education faculty, Maxine Thomas and Steve Brannan. Why in the future would we assume they are? She intentionally used feminine pronouns for all sexually latent Gethenians in her 1995 short story "Coming of Age in Karhide", and in a later reprinting of "Winter's King", which was first published in 1969. In Gifts, Orrec and Gry realize that the powers their people possess can be used in two ways: for control and dominion, or for healing and nurturing. Highlights include student life and media at Vanport Extension Center, the Vanport flood of 1948, urban renewal in Portland that facilitated the establishment of the campus during the 1960s and 70s, student housing, and collective bargaining with faculty and staff unions.This interview was recorded in two sittings on September 23 and September 27, 2010. Her best-known fantasies, the six Books of Earthsea, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into sixteen languages. Critical appreciation for Le Guins work is near-universal. [42], Ace Books released Rocannon's World, Le Guin's first published novel, in 1966. > A member of the class of 1947 of Berkeley High School, Le Guin was the daughter of anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Quinn Kroeber. Le Guin herself took exception to this treatment of children's literature, describing it as "adult chauvinist piggery". [61] Her 1974 novel The Dispossessed again won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for best novel, making her the first person to win both awards for each of two books. She studied at Radcliffe College and Columbia University. Research Lib., Org. Boston: Twayne, 1984. "You could order it out of a catalogue," its owner, the writer Ursula K. Le Guin, told me three years ago. But that didn't have too much effect on me. [4] For the latter volume, Le Guin won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, becoming the first woman to do so. [34][75][77] Four more poetry collections were also published in this period, all of which were positively received. [6] China Miville described Le Guin as a "literary colossus", and wrote that she was a "writer of intense ethical seriousness and intelligence, of wit and fury, of radical politics, of subtlety, of freedom and yearning". Home The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, was among the first books in the genre now known as feminist science fiction, and is the most famous examination of androgyny in science fiction. Copyright law. [62] Also set in the Hainish universe, the story explored anarchism and utopianism. [188] Her prose, according to Zadie Smith, was "as elegant and beautiful as any written in the twentieth century". Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. January 24, 2018. She was active in the literary and political community of Portland and Oregon, including joining peace vigils at Pioneer Courthouse Square and giving early support for both Fishtrap and Oregon Literary Arts. Born in Berkeley, California in 1929, Le Guin graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951, then earned a master's degree from Columbia University the following year. [177][178] According to Rochelle, the stories examine a society that has the potential to build a "truly human community", made possible by the Ekumen's recognition of the slaves as human beings, thus offering them the prospect of freedom and the possibility of utopia, brought about through revolution. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. Charles Le Guin, author of Home-Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913, on LibraryThing . [86] The volume examined unconventional ideas about gender, as well as anarchist themes. She married Charles Le Guin in Paris in 1953. She later said that science fiction did not have much impact on her until she read the works of Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith, and that she had sneered at the genre as a child. Dr. A number of Hainish novels, The Dispossessed prominent among them, explored such a process of reconciliation. Dr. A postage stamp is more than a personal honor. Calendar Location Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 Cost / Admission $25 and up Contact Ethan Sperry [email protected] [2] Commentators have noted that the Earthsea novels specifically received less critical attention because they were considered children's books. Spivak, Charlotte. Award-winning US science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin has died, aged 88, her family said. [83] In 2000 she published The Telling, which would be her final Hainish novel, and the next year released Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind, the last two Earthsea books. This interview was held on February 21, 2019, at the Portland State University Library. Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like "The Left Hand of Darkness" and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88. [18] While her husband finished his doctorate at Emory University in Georgia, and later at the University of Idaho, Le Guin taught French and worked as a secretary until the birth of her daughter Elisabeth in 1957. [148] During this later period she commented that she considered The Eye of the Heron, published in 1978, to be her first work genuinely centered on a woman. The U.S. Library of Congress named her a Living Legend in 2000, and in 2014, she won the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In the event that previously unknown information is shared that may change the status of this item, it will be immediately removed from public view until pertinent rights issues are clarified.Contact Special Collections and University Archives at Portland State University Library at: [email protected] or (503) 725-9883. Ursula K. Le Guin, original name Ursula Kroeber, (born October 21, 1929, Berkeley, California, U.S.died January 22, 2018, Portland, Oregon), American writer best known for tales of science fiction and fantasy imbued with concern for character development and language. Le Guin's first novel was "Rocannon's World" in 1966 but she gained fame three years later with "The Left Hand of Darkness," which won the Hugo and Nebula awards top science fiction prizes . Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first published short story was "An die Musik", in 1961. It's late 2014 and Le Guinthe writer who invented . Ursula K. Le Guin died in Portland on January 22, 2018. [57][127] Examples include Rocannon in Rocannon's World and Genly Ai in The Left Hand of Darkness. Past the barriers at the entranceCharles's menacingly thorny roses, the lion . Carmina Burana | Portland State University PSU Currently Carmina Burana Carmina Burana Monday, February 27, 2023 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM iCalendar Google Calendar Outlook Outlook Online Yahoo! [33] In 1997, she published a translation of the Tao Te Ching. Her first professional publication was the short story "April in Paris" in 1962, while her first published novel was Rocannon's World, released by Ace Books in 1966. [74], Between 1979, when she published Malafrena, and 1994, when the collection A Fisherman of the Inland Sea was released, Le Guin wrote primarily for a younger audience. According to Bloom, Le Guin was a "visionary who set herself against all brutality, discrimination, and exploitation". Relationships: Le Guin, Ursula K. (spouse) Le Guin, Elisabeth (daughter) Organizations: Portland State University. [50][52], Her next novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, was a Hainish universe story exploring themes of gender and sexuality on a fictional planet where humans have no fixed sex. Brian Attebery, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, describes Le Guins fiction as "extraordinarily riskyfull of hypotheses about morality, love, society, and ways of enriching life, expressed in the symbolic language found in myth, dream, or poetry.". She expressed a deep interest in Taoism and Buddhism, saying that Taoism gave her a "handle on how to look at life" during her adolescent years. In 2018, Le Guin died of a heart attack (White, 2016). Since 1958, Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Charles Le Guin, whom she married in Paris in 1953. | Awards, and three Jupiter Awards. | [33][96] Authors Le Guin describes as influential include Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Boris Pasternak, and Philip K. Dick. 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