The now 80 year old Ursula K. Le Guin looks back on her life and career and the Ursula K. Le Guin’s website is hosting the MP3 file made from the March 17th 2009 BBC broadcast interview. Have a listen |MP3|.
Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.
Le Guin was a trailblazer – writing in the 1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard, Ged, included characters of every race and colour. Her fiction has been acutely concerned with politics, portraying worlds destroyed by environmental catastrophe that prefigured modern concerns about global warming, and societies without gender just as modern-day feminism began to take off.
Featuring contributions and tributes from Iain M. Banks and Margaret Atwood.
This documentary aired Tuesday March 17th 2009 @ 11:30-12:00 BBC R4: Ursula Le Guin At 80
[via SFsignal.com and our ORIGINAL POST]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Wow, two awesome authors. It’s amazing she just won a Nebula. I guess she’s still going strong.
China is awesome. Nobody could have dreamt of any better interviewer. “A literature of liberation”. I think that gets to the point.