Le Guin Wins NBF Medal

Ursula K. Le Guin, 84, will receive the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The medal is presented annually to “a person who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work,” and includes a $10,000 cash prize. The medal will be presented  November 19, 2014 by Neil Gaiman at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York.

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