![]() ![]() ![]() Rejection letters from publishers in the 50s tell her, variously: “You write well and are obviously very erudite. All of a sudden we are seeing Earthsea … from the point of view of the powerless.”Īlthough Le Guin won many awards during her lifetime, the documentary – which will premiere on 10 June at the Sheffield Doc/Fest – reveals her initial struggle to be published. “What I’d been doing as a writer was being a woman pretending to think like a man … I had to rethink my entire approach to writing fiction … it was important to think about privilege and power and domination, in terms of gender, which was something science fiction and fantasy had not done,” Le Guin tells Curry. ![]() The trailer for Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin. ![]()
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