[The politician] wanted his hearers to be frightened and angry. His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. No, LeGuin is not writing about Trump. The Left Hand of Darkness was published in 1969...
Ursula K Le Guin has been awarded the USA's National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The recipient recieves US$10,000 and is a person who has enriched the literary heritage of the USA over a life of service, or a corpus of work. The citation includes the following: For more than forty years, Le Guin has defied the 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 [...]