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A HOME FOR FANTASY

The home of the celebrated fantasy and science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin, author of such classics as The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series, beginning with The Wizard of Earthsea, is to become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency, writes Gary Dalkin.

The late author’s family have donated the house in Portland, Oregon, to the local non-profit organisation Literary Arts for the purpose, and a campaign was launched in June to fund the necessary renovations and alterations to the property. Le Guin’s son and literary executor Theo Downes-Le Guin said, that the residency will ‘welcome writers from around the world’. He also noted that, ‘Although Ursula’s reputation is international, she focused much of her energy on the local community of writers, libraries and literary organisations. So it’s fitting that this residency, ambitious in the breadth of writers it will reach, will be rooted in the house and city she loved and lived in for more than a half century.’