Campbell Wins Le Guin Prize
Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform) is the winner of the second Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which includes a $25,000 cash prize, presented “to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction,” presented by the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust.
Other finalists were:
- Wolfish, Christiane Andrews (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- 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 award “is intended to recognize those writers Le Guin spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech — realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.”
The 2023 selection panel included William Alexander, Alexander Chee, Karen Joy Fowler, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Shruti Swamy. For more information, see the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust website.
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