Ursula K. Le Guin's Passionate Acceptance Speech
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Watch the acceptance speech that shook the literary world.
Author Ursula K. Le Guin shares her National Books Award with all the writers "who were excluded from literature for so long."
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Ursula K. Le Guin's Passionate Acceptance Speech
Clip: 8/2/2019 | 1m 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Author Ursula K. Le Guin shares her National Books Award with all the writers "who were excluded from literature for so long."
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