Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 6
Major Awards: 20
Locus Awards: 25
Other Awards: 16
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 215
Times Served as Judge: 4
Living Inductee winner
life achievement winner
Eaton Award
for best critical book, to 2001; since 2008, for lifetime achievement, juried
lifetime achievement in science fiction winner
Forry Award
for lifetime achievement, presented by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
winner
Pilgrim Award
for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship
winner
Hugo Awards
for SF/F works, voted by members of annual World Science Fiction Convention
(26 nominations; 8 wins)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (by UKLG &
David Naimon) (Tin House Books)
related work nomination
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (by written by UKLG, illustrated by
Charles Vess) (Saga)
art book
winner
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
related work winner
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer's Week (Small Beer)
related work winner
“The Wild Girls” (Asimov's Mar 2002)
novelette nomination
“The Bones of the Earth” (Tales from Earthsea)
short story nomination
“Mountain Ways” (Asimov's Aug 1996)
novelette nomination
“A Man of the People” (Asimov's Apr 1995)
novella nomination
“A Woman's Liberation” (Asimov's Jul 1995)
novella nomination
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
novella nomination
“The Matter of Seggri” (Crank! #3 Spring 1994)
novelette nomination
“Solitude” (F&SF Dec 1994)
novelette nomination
Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove)
nonfiction book nomination
“Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight” (Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences; F&SF Nov 1987)
novelette winner
“Sur” (The New Yorker 1 Feb 1982; The Compass Rose (revised))
short story nomination
The Language of the Night (by UKLG, edited by
Susan Wood) (Putnam)
nonfiction book nomination
“The Diary of the Rose” (Future Power)
novelette nomination
“The New Atlantis” (The New Atlantis)
novelette nomination
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
novel winner
“The Day Before the Revolution” (Galaxy Aug 1974)
short story nomination
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (New Dimensions 3)
short story winner
“The Word for World Is Forest” (Again, Dangerous Visions)
novella winner
The Lathe of Heaven (Amazing Stories Mar,May 1971; Scribner's)
novel nomination
“Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” (New Dimensions 1)
short story nomination
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace)
novel winner
“Winter's King” (Orbit 5)
short story nomination
Nebula Awards
for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(18 nominations; 6 wins)
Powers (Harcourt)
novel winner
The Other Wind (Harcourt)
novel nomination
“A Woman's Liberation” (Asimov's Jul 1995)
novella nomination
“Solitude” (F&SF Dec 1994)
novelette winner
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
novella nomination
“The Matter of Seggri” (Crank! #3 Spring 1994)
novelette nomination
Tehanu (Macmillan Atheneum)
novel winner
“The Shobies' Story” (Universe 1)
novelette nomination
“Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight” (Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences; F&SF Nov 1987)
novelette nomination
“The Pathways of Desire” (New Dimensions 9)
novelette nomination
“The Diary of the Rose” (Future Power)
novelette nomination
“The New Atlantis” (The New Atlantis)
novelette nomination
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
novel winner
“The Day Before the Revolution” (Galaxy Aug 1974)
short story winner
“The Word for World Is Forest” (Again, Dangerous Visions)
novella nomination
The Lathe of Heaven (Amazing Stories Mar,May 1971; Scribner's)
novel nomination
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace)
novel winner
“Nine Lives” (Playboy Nov 1969)
novelette nomination
(7 nominations; 3 wins)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth (Small Beer)
collection nomination
The Other Wind (Harcourt)
novel winner
“The Finder” (Tales from Earthsea)
novella nomination
“Dragonfly” (Legends)
novella nomination
“Ether OR” (Asimov's Nov 1995)
novella nomination
“Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight” (Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences; F&SF Nov 1987)
novella winner
British Fantasy Awards
for fantasy works published in the UK, voted by British Fantasy Society members, juried since 2012
(3 nominations)
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
non-fiction nomination
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer's Week (Small Beer)
non-fiction nomination
Tales from Earthsea (Gollancz)
collection nomination
(1 nomination)
Lavinia (Gollancz)
novel nomination
(8 nominations; 3 wins)
Lavinia (Harcourt)
honor list
“Dragonfly” (Legends)
long list
“Unchosen Love” (Amazing Stories Fall 1994)
short list
“Mountain Ways” (Asimov's Aug 1996)
winner
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace)
retrospective Tiptree winner
“The Matter of Seggri” (Crank! #3 Spring 1994)
winner
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (HarperPrism)
short list
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
short list
(1 nomination)
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
second place
(6 nominations; 1 win)
“The Seasons of the Ansarac” (The Infinite Matrix 3 Jun 2002)
shortlist
“The Wild Girls” (Asimov's Mar 2002)
shortlist
“The Birthday of the World” (F&SF Jun 2000)
shortlist
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
winner
“Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea” (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Aug 1994)
shortlist
“Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight” (Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences; F&SF Nov 1987)
second place (tie)
Locus Awards
for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(81 nominations; 25 wins)
Space Crone (Silver)
non-fiction winner
“Firelight” (Paris Review Sum 2018)
short story 3rd place
Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)
nonfiction 4th place
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (by UKLG &
David Naimon) (Tin House)
nonfiction
winner
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (by UKLG, illustrated by
Charles Vess) (Saga)
art book
winner
The Hainish Novels & Stories, Volumes I & II (Library of America)
collection winner
The Complete Orsinia (Library of America)
collection 3rd place
The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)
collection 2nd place
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer's Week (Small Beer)
non-fiction 2nd place
“The Jar of Water” (Tin House #62)
novelette 2nd place
“Elementals” (Tin House Fal 2012)
short story 5th place
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth (Small Beer)
collection 4th place
Cheek by Jowl: Essays (Aqueduct)
nonfiction/art book winner
Lavinia (Harcourt)
fantasy novel winner
Powers (Harcourt; Gollancz)
young adult book 2nd place
Voices (Orion Children's; Harcourt)
young adult book 2nd place
Gifts (Harcourt)
young adult book 2nd place
The Wave in the Mind (Shambhala)
non-fiction winner
Changing Planes (Harcourt)
collection winner
“Paradises Lost” (The Birthday of the World and Other Stories)
novella 2nd place
“The Wild Girls” (Asimov's Mar 2002)
novelette winner
“The Seasons of the Ansarac” (The Infinite Matrix 30 Jun 2002)
short story 13th place
“Social Dreaming of the Frin” (F&SF Oct/Nov 2002)
short story 9th place
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (HarperCollins)
collection 2nd place
The Other Wind (Harcourt)
fantasy novel 2nd place
“The Finder” (Tales from Earthsea)
novella winner
“On the High Marsh” (Tales from Earthsea)
novelette 2nd place
“The Bones of the Earth” (Tales from Earthsea)
short story winner
“The Building” (Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction)
short story 13th place
Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt)
collection winner
The Telling (Harcourt)
sf novel winner
“The Birthday of the World” (F&SF Jun 2000)
novelette winner
“The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanetary Tale” (Sci Fiction 8 Nov 2000)
short story 19th place (tie)
“The Royals of Hegn” (Asimov's Feb 2000)
short story 4th place
“Old Music and the Slave Women” (Far Horizons)
novella 4th place
“Darkrose and Diamond” (F&SF Oct/Nov 1999)
novelette 7th place (tie)
“Dragonfly” (Legends)
novella 2nd place
“Mountain Ways” (Asimov's Aug 1996)
novelette winner
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (HarperCollins)
collection 2nd place
“A Man of the People” (Asimov's Apr 1995)
novella 2nd place
“A Woman's Liberation” (Asimov's Jul 1995)
novella 3rd place
“Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen” (New Legends)
novelette 6th place
“Ether OR” (Asimov's Nov 1995)
novelette 2nd place
“Olders” (Omni Winter 1995)
short story 10th place
Four Ways to Forgiveness (HarperPrism)
collection winner
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
novella winner
“Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea” (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Aug 1994)
novelette 9th place
“The Matter of Seggri” (Crank! #3 Spring 1994)
novelette 12th place
“Solitude” (F&SF Dec 1994)
novelette 3rd place
“Unchosen Love” (Amazing Stories Fall 1994)
short story 8th place
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (HarperPrism)
collection 2nd place
The Norton Book Of Science Fiction (UKLG &
Brian Attebery, eds.) (Norton)
anthology 5th place
“The Rock That Changed Things” (Amazing Stories Sep 1992)
short story 26th place
Tehanu (Macmillan Atheneum)
fantasy novel winner
“The Shobies' Story” (Universe 1)
novelette 3rd place
Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove)
nonfiction 4th place
“Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight” (F&SF Nov 1987)
novelette 3rd place
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (Capra Press)
collection 8th place
Always Coming Home (Harper & Row)
sf novel 10th place
“Sur” (The Compass Rose)
short story winner
The Compass Rose (Harper & Row)
single author collection winner
The Beginning Place (Harper & Row)
fantasy novel 7th place
Interfaces (UKLG &
Virginia Kidd, eds.) (Ace)
anthology 23rd place
Malafrena (Putnam)
fantasy novel 9th place
“The Pathways of Desire” (New Dimensions 9)
novelette 7th place
The Language of the Night (by UKLG, edited by
Susan Wood) (Putnam)
related nonfiction book 4th place
The Eye of the Heron (Millennial Women)
novel 21st place (tie)
“SQ” (Cassandra Rising)
short story 9th place (tie)
“The Diary of the Rose” (Future Power)
novelette 2nd place
Nebula Award Stories 11 (Gollancz; Harper & Row)
anthology 10th place
“The New Atlantis” (The New Atlantis)
novelette winner
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Harper & Row)
single author collection winner
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
novel winner
“'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics” (Fellowship of the Stars)
short story 4th place
“The Day Before the Revolution” (Galaxy Aug 1974)
short story winner
“The Stars Below” (Orbit 14)
short story 12th place
“The Field of Vision” (Galaxy Oct 1973)
short fiction 11th place (tie)
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (New Dimensions 3)
short fiction 6th place
“The Word for World Is Forest” (Again, Dangerous Visions)
novella 2nd place
The Lathe of Heaven (Amazing Stories Mar,May 1971; Scribners)
novel winner
“Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” (New Dimensions 1)
short fiction 14th place
(7 nominations; 3 wins)
“The Wild Girls” (Asimov's Mar 2002)
novelette winner
“The Royals of Hegn” (Asimov's Feb 2000)
short story 4th place
“Mountain Ways” (Asimov's Aug 1996)
novelette 6th place
“A Man of the People” (Asimov's Apr 1995)
novella 4th place
“A Woman's Liberation” (Asimov's Jul 1995)
novella winner
“Ether OR” (Asimov's Nov 1995)
novelette 5th place
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
novella winner
Balrog Awards
for fantasy works, presented an annual FoolsCon in Kansas City
(2 nominations)
professional achievement nomination
poet nomination
Ditmar Awards
for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(4 nominations; 1 win)
The Compass Rose (Gollancz)
international fiction winner
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
international sf nomination
The Lathe of Heaven (Amazing Stories Mar,May 1971)
international sf nomination
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace)
international sf nomination
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
Powers
finalist
Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt)
winner
The Telling (Harcourt)
winner (tie)
Gandalf Awards
for fantasy novels and grand masters, administered in parallel with the Hugos
(5 nominations; 1 win)
grand master of fantasy winner
grand master of fantasy nomination
grand master of fantasy nomination
grand master of fantasy nomination
grand master of fantasy nomination
(2 nominations; 1 win)
The Left Hand of Darkness
hall of fame winner
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace)
hall of fame nomination
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Translated Short Story or Collection winner
HOMer Awards
for SF/F works, voted by members of SF/F forum on CompuServe
(2 nominations)
“Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea” (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Aug 1994)
novelette nomination
Tehanu (Macmillan Atheneum)
fantasy novel nomination
(1 nomination)
all-time best sf author 10th place
Italia Awards
for SF/F works published in Italy, voted by members of annual Italcon
(3 nominations; 1 win)
Paradises Lost
international novel winner
Changing Planes
international novel nomination
The Other Wind
international novel 2nd place
Jupiter Awards
for SF novels and stories, voted by instructors of SF courses in higher education
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
“The Diary of the Rose” (Future Power)
novelette winner
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
novel winner
“The Day Before the Revolution” (Galaxy Aug 1974)
short story winner
“Direction of the Road” (Orbit 12)
short story nomination
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (New Dimensions 3)
short story nomination
(1 nomination; 1 win)
Paradises Lost
foreign novel winner
Mythopoeic Awards
for fantasy works in the spirit of the Inklings, voted by members of the Mythopoeic Society
(11 nominations)
Cheek by Jowl: Essays (Aqueduct)
myth and fantasy studies nomination
Cheek by Jowl: Essays (Aqueduct)
myth and fantasy studies nomination
Lavinia (Harcourt)
adult literature nomination
Changing Planes (Harcourt)
adult literature nomination
The Other Wind (Harcourt)
adult literature nomination
Fish Soup
children's fantasy nomination
Tehanu (Macmillan Atheneum)
fantasy nomination
Always Coming Home
fantasy nomination
The Beginning Place
fantasy nomination
The Farthest Shore (Atheneum)
fantasy nomination
The Tombs of Atuan (Atheneum)
fantasy nomination
Prometheus Awards
for SF works on libertarian themes, voted by members of the Libertarian Futurist Society
(5 nominations; 1 win)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (HarperPrism)
novel nomination
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
hall of fame winner
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
hall of fame nomination
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
hall of fame nomination
The Dispossessed (Harper & Row)
hall of fame nomination
Rhysling Awards
for SF/F poetry, voted by members of the SF Poetry Association
(1 nomination; 1 win)
“The Well of Baln” (Hard Words and Other Poems)
long poem winner
(3 nominations)
“Forgiveness Day” (Asimov's Nov 1994)
novella 2nd place
“The Matter of Seggri” (Crank! #3 Spring 1994)
novelette 2nd place
“Sur” (The New Yorker 1 Feb 1982)
short story 2nd place
Seiun Awards
for SF/F works published in Japan, voted by members of annual Japanese SF Con
(3 nominations)
The Other Wind
translated novel nomination
The Telling
translated novel nomination
“A Fisherman of the Inland Sea”
foreign short fiction nomination
Carl Brandon Awards
for works by persons of color, and dealing with issues of race and ethnicity; juried