Neil Gaiman presents lifetime achievement award to Ursula K. Le Guin at 2014 National Book Awards
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2014
- FULL VIDEO - In recognition of her transformative impact on American literature, Ursula K. Le Guin is the 2014 recipient of the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the Foundation’s twenty-seventh award recipient.
For more than forty years, Le Guin has defied conventions of narrative, language, character, and genre, as well as transcended the boundaries between fantasy and realism, to forge new paths for literary fiction. Among the nation’s most revered writers of science fiction and fantasy, Le Guin’s fully imagined worlds challenge readers to consider profound philosophical and existential questions about gender, race, the environment, and society. Her boldly experimental and critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and children’s books, written in elegant prose, are popular with millions of readers around the world.
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" We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings, resistance and change often begin in art. "
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"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries - realists of a larger reality."
Damn she went there. She could have just given a speech all about herself, since this was literally the golden opportunity for that. Instead she comes in like Samson destroying the temple, with a master-crafted indictment built to last. I wonder how many Big Publishing shareholders and executives were in the room for networking and backpatting, only to get called out as rats. UKLG demonstrating boss level 9000.
Amazing!
Not to mention all those irritating fish-eyed literary agents!
This was one of the most important moments in literary history.
I hope so. I'm so afraid that anything that went viral in 2014 has been long forgotten. So I just posted it again in my blog.
What a fiercely intelligent and articulate woman. Listen to what she has to say about capitalism folks, you’ll need to put a pin in that.
"Right now I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art."
We need publishers who can recognize vision or talent. We need fewer phillistines in the industry.
Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin in one room? Just missing Douglas Adams (Rest his soul), and all my favorite authors of all time will be in one video.
Interesting how she became increasingly like her character Odo as she aged. Unlike Odo, she might not have led a revolution, but she did show me how to think outside my limited point of view. I've frequently disagreed with her throughout all I've read, but always in a way which enlightened me as to why or at least to the very fact that there might be an alternative to the way I'm used to think... I miss her already, but like Ogion, she died well, she ended a long, fulfilling life with a smile.
Rest in Power, Dear Ursula
"Thank you brave applauders..."
What an amazing woman. Just like Neil, I wouldn't be writing if it wasn't for Ursula. Rest in power, Miss Le Guin.
RIP Ursula K. le Guin
A wizard of earthsea is a freaking masterpiece!!!
very exceptional.The experienced author has brought out so bluntly the unethical publishers and corporates, who exploit intellectuals for profit.
Yep, why do these untalented cretins get away with it? Publishers, editors and literary agents are the cyclopses of the litarary world. I've got more imagination than all of them. They are incapable of any vision.
She was-she “is” since her works are with us-brilliant, brave, inspirational. A remarkable figure. I love to see her criticizing the fetishization of profits.
What a remarkable human being! She and her art has touched so many hearts! Thank you!
I love Gaiman's jab at J. K. Rowling.
Where?
think he's refering to the wizard school remark. Not so much a jab as just pointing something out though.
Honestly, there's no such thing as completely original ideas. J. K. Rowling may as well have read Ursula's book at some point in life and internalized it (she is younger than Neil Gaiman, she may have done it even earlier in life).
There were multiple ideas taken from the Wizard of Earthsea when Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books. Not only the wizarding school but the connection with dark forces, Draco Malfoy.. Rowling never gave Le Guin an ounce of credit. JK Rowling is a very talented woman who took an idea and used it in a brilliant way. She drew out a world of magic but it was anything but original. She took from Ursula Le Guin and Terry Pratchett.
@TWASM There are no records of public statements from her. It'd been documented, like if you google'd it it would be there. Nevertheless, I don't think Rowling plagiarized, she may be an effy person in other aspects but in this I think she just did what many artists and creators have done all the time: get inspired by other works. Maybe she should've been honest about what inspired her, but it isn't illegal as far as I know
U K LeGuin my favourite writer for years, and still up there... with people who've read her. Hear her! I say, Hear her!
A tremendous legacy from a most wonderful writer.
October 21, 2016
Happy Birthday, Ursula! I send the love of a reader to a favorite author for 40 years.
My copy of "Words Are My Matter" arrived a few days ago. Looking forward to reading with fall light and a bowl of apples.
The disdain with which she said “realists” 😂
Yep, like the AI realists living in a suicidal dream...
She bloody deserves that award.
Ursula LeGuin is amazing.
yesss
I subbed you
A true revolutionary.
Le Guins message here is so important, I'm so glad someone highlighted this!
It is nice when you can like a person and thier art
I love that she called it a "reward."
Ursula, you are my biggest inspiration and my true hero. You will live through your words always!
Alright, that's it. If she could say so much in a five minute speech, I'm picking up some Hainish books TODAY!
i love her so much.
thanks for every single letter!
Quelle femme et écrivain fantastique! De l'autre coté du mur, ou où qu'elle soit, je lui souhaite un voyage aussi merveilleux que ceux dans lesquels elles nous a entraînés.
I watched this video because of Neil Gaiman. Ido not know who Ursula K is, but now i know one thing that she is: total badass
What a wonderful and powerful talk. One that needs to be reviewed annually by artists around the world - and the businesses they work with.
Incredible lady... my all time hero :)
RIP Grandmistress of Science Fiction
Much deserved.
We miss you Ursula
Such nice speeches from both of them.
Esse vídeo é lindo de tantas formas.
Dois belos discursos e o chamado de uma senhora muito lúcida.
Just an amazing human being.
RIP Ursula
Amazing!
she is my hero, always
ты королева будь свободна и так же прекрасна в том мире где ты сейчас находишся мы никогда не забудем тебя
We must remember this.
All those people sit in the stands feeling like being scolded by their grandma who knows best.
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Rest in peace.
Bravo beautiful Ursula xxx
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Okay, new favourite author.
Howard Stern's doppelganger.
Ursula starts at 6:00
"...Um" -Neil Gaiman
Ok folks, where do I start with her? First book?
Yes! Give it to the damn profiteers! The Dispossessed is my favorite of her books
Both of them are great writers
Love. This. Woman.
Holy Guacamole O_o'
Science fiction: before ULG - after ULG
There is always a harry potter allusion.
5:29 most jauntily inappropriate music in the history of literature.
I chuckled when I read this, after I'd already heard the music. Reflecting on it was funnier than hearing it the first time.
the profit motive makes things the most people like. If most people suck at understanding art, bad art sells.
Good point. Bad art sells. But if good art is not supported financially, through exposure though people educating themselves the nuance of the genre.. Then I think eventually the bad art finds no coattails to ride, no cheap imitation of something quality, as the quality has slipped beyond their limited scope.. Just an idea!
Companies influence people's perception, hence why hundreds of billions are spent on advertising and lobbying each year. it is not simply to get attention but shape it. Framing it as mostly an individual issue is basically false. Most people don't really exercise much influence in shaping the choices available to them, whether that is in art or tech. They are given prescribed choices, sometimes based on limited and bias market research, and then they make a choice between what is on the table. In my area, conservation and urban design, the profit motive is by far the biggest impediment to better work being done. and there is a lot of knowledge about what should be done, just a hostile financial environment in which to try to do it.
The "human problem" has nothing to do with capitalism or any economic system. It has to do with the human heart.
Whoa! The still image from the video (above) makes her look like Peter O'Toole in drag. In my opinion, _The Lathe of Heaven_ was her best work.
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