She was one of the most important writers within the world SF&F field.
She was 88.
Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause but said she had been in poor health for several months.”
May her soul rest in peace !
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42798654
‘”The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” (1974), which also won a Hugo and a Nebula, and is widely regarded as Le Guin’s most richly textured sf work.
It is not a book in which difficulties are readily surmounted, a central structuring image of the tale being a wall that physically and psychically blocks any marriage of dualisms.
The book has been read as pitting a Utopia against a Dystopia, but, as the book’s subtitle implies, there are seldom absolutes in Le Guin’s work; the (at least initially far more attractive) anarchist society is in some ways blinkered and emotionally regimented, with the willing collaboration of its people. Ideationally the novel is very strong. With time, it is has become widely recognized as a deeply imagined work of art.”- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/23/ursula-k-le-guin-sci-fi-fantasy-author-dies-at-88