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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Winter's King" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.Tags
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Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married show more Charles Le Guin. Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Winter's King [short story]
- Original title
- Winter's King [novelette]
- Original publication date
- 1969-09
- People/Characters*
- Rebade; König Argaven Harge; Hoge; Gerer; Korgry; Mobile Axt (show all 12); Ker; Mobile Gist; Horrsed; Bannith; Emran; Perreth
- First words*
- Wenn einmal im Vorwärtsströmen der Zeit Wirbel auftauchen und die Geschichte um ein Hindernis zu strudeln scheint, wie zum Beispiel ber der seltsamen Angelegenheit mit der Erbfolge in Karhide, hilft man sich am besten mit B... (show all)ildern: Schnappschüsse, die man zur Hand nimmt und nebeneinander hält, um die Eltern mit dem Kind, den jungen König mit dem alten zu vergleichen, und die außerdem gemischt und neu angeordnet werden können, bis die Jahre wieder geradeaus laufen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dann richtet sie sich auf, bleibt eine Weile ruhig stehen und schreitet hinaus durch finstere Korridore, an Fenstern vorbei, die beleuchtet sind von ferner Zerstörung, um ihr Haus in Ordnung zu bringen: Argaven, König von Winter.
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- Englisch
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