2023 Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist
The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the shortlist for the second annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, awarding a $25,000 cash prize “to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction.”
The shortlisted titles are:
- Wolfish, Christiane Andrews (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Arboreality, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform)
- Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
- Ten Planets, Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman (Graywolf)
- The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)
- Brother Alive, Zain Khalid (Grove Atlantic)
- Meet Us By the Roaring Sea, Akil Kumarasamy (FSG)
- Geometries of Belonging, R.B. Lemberg (Fairwood)
- Drinking from Graveyard Wells, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (University Press of Kentucky)
The 2023 selection panel includes William Alexander, Alexander Chee, Karen Joy Fowler, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Shruti Swamy. For more information, see the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust website. An interview about the prize with Theo Downes-Le Guin can be found here.
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