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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
- The Diary of the Rose [novelette]
- Original title
- The Diary of the Rose [novelette]
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters*
- Dr. Nades; Ana Jest; Flores Sorde; Rose Sobel
- First words*
- 30. August
Dr. Nades empfiehlt, daß ich ein Tagebuch über meine Arbeit führe. - Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Die Rose ohne Blüte, die Dornenrose, der Geist, den er schuf, die Hand, die er berührte, die Winterrose.
- Original language*
- Englisch
- Disambiguation notice
- Gülün Günlüğü ile Rüzgargülü aynı kitap değildir. Gülün Günlüğü'nde eksik hikayeler mevcuttur. Rüzgargülü 20, Gülün Günlüğü ise 12 bölümden oluşmaktadır - Gülün Günlüğü And Compass Rose are... (show all) not the same book. Gülün Günlüğü have some missing stories. Gülün Günlüğü contains 12 chapters while Compass Rose have 20 chapters
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