Selected Awards and Honors

2019 Hugo Award for Best Art Book, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess
2019 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction, Conversations on Writing, with David Naimon
2019 Locus Award for Best Art Book, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, illustrated by Charles Vess
2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
2018 Hugo Award for Best Related Work, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
2018 Locus Award for Best Collection, The Hainish Novels and Stories
2017 Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
2017 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2015 Kurd Lasswitz Award for Verlorene Paradiese (Paradises Lost)
2014 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (watch Ursula’s speech above)
2012 Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award for Science Fiction
2010 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction/Art Book, Cheek By Jowl
2009 The Lathe of Heaven, Searoad, and The World Begins Here (ed. Glen A. Love, including “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”) selected for Oregon State Library’s “150 Books for Oregon’s Sesquicentennial”
2009 Emperor Has No Clothes Award from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
2009 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Lavinia
2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel, Powers
2006 Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers for distinguished body of work. Washington Center for the Book
2005 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction, The Wave in the Mind
2004 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement (YALSA)
2004 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer (American Library Association)
2004 Locus Award for Best Collection, Changing Planes
2003 Locus Award for Best Novelette, “The Wild Girls”
2003 Asimov’s Readers Award for Best Novelette, “The Wild Girls”
2002 Grand Master, SFWA
2002 Endeavor Award for Tales from Earthsea
2002 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
2002 Willamette Writers Lifetime Achievement Award
2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, The Other Wind
2002 Locus Award for Best Collection, Tales from Earthsea
2002 Locus Award for Best Short Story, “The Bones of the Earth”
2002 Locus Award for Best Novella, “The Finder”
2001 Endeavor Award for The Telling
2001 Locus Award for Best Novel, The Telling 
2001 Locus Award for Best Novelette, “The Birthday of the World”
2001 Lifetime Achievement Award, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
1999 Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, L.A. Times
1998 Bumbershoot Golden Umbrella Award
1997 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Unlocking the Air
1997 Locus Award for Best Novelette, “Mountain Ways”
1996 Otherwise Award for “Mountain Ways”
1995 Retrospective Otherwise Award for The Left Hand of Darkness
1995 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
1995 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, “Solitude”
1995 Theodore Sturgeon Award for “Forgiveness Day”
1996 Locus Award for Best Collection, Four Ways to Forgiveness
1995 Locus Award for Best Novella, “Forgiveness Day”
1995 Asimov’s Readers Award for Best Novella, “Forgiveness Day”
1995 Hubbub annual poetry award for “Semen”
1994 Otherwise Award for “The Matter of Seggri”
1992 H.L. Davis Fiction Award from OLA for Searoad
1991 Harold Vursell Award, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters
1991 Pushcart Prize for “Bill Weisler”
1991 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Tehanu
1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel, Tehanu
1988 Hugo Award for Best Novelette “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight”
1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight”
1987 Prix Lectures-Jeunesse for Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (tr. Laroche)
1985 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction for Always Coming Home
1985 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, Always Coming Home
1983 Locus Award for Best Collection, The Compass Rose
1983 Locus Award for Best Short Story, “Sur” 
1979 Gandalf Award (Grand Master of Fantasy)
1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for A Wizard of Earthsea
1977 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, Orsinian Tales
1977 Jupiter Award for Best Novelette, “The Diary of the Rose”
1976 Locus Award for Best Novelette, “The New Atlantis”
1976 Locus Award for Best Collection, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
1975 Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Dispossessed
1975 Locus Award for Best Novel, The Dispossessed
1975 Locus Award for Best Short Story, “The Day Before the Revolution”
1975 Jupiter Award for Best Short Story “The Day Before the Revolution”
1975 Jupiter Award for Best Novel, The Dispossessed
1974 Nebula Award for Best Novel, The Dispossessed
1974 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, “The Day Before the Revolution”
1974 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
1973 Hugo Award for Best Novella, The Word for World is Forest
1973 National Book Award for Children’s Books, The Farthest Shore
1972 Locus Award for Best Novel, The Lathe of Heaven
1972 Newbery Honor Medal for The Tombs of Atuan
1972 National Book Award Finalist for Children’s Books, The Tombs of Atuan
1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 Nebula Award for Best Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction for A Wizard of Earthsea