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Literary Arts has announced that The Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award, presented to an author in recognition of a distinguished career in Oregon letters, will be given to Ursula K. Le Guin. The award is presented at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony, which will take place on Friday, December 1, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., at the Portland Art Museum.
From Literary Arts:
The Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award, presented to an author in recognition of a distinguished career in Oregon letters, will be given to Ursula K. Le Guin of Portland. Le Guin is an internationally acclaimed author of dozens of books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and children's literature. She has received literary awards and accolades since 1968, when she won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for A Wizard of Earthsea. Her other awards include the Newbery, Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and National Book Award, and at least five lifetime achievement awards. Locally, she has served on the boards of the Multnomah County Library, Literary Arts and Soapstone Writer's Retreat.
"We are thrilled to finally have the chance to honor Ursula in this way, during this special year of the Oregon Book Awards program," says Literary Arts executive director Elizabeth Burnett. Le Guin's service as a Literary Arts board member has made her ineligible for the award in the past.
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