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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I thought you might like to know that Ursula K. Le Guin is the 2014 medalist for Distinguished Contribution To American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
Read the following press release or visit the National Book Foundation website for more information (<a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/amerletters_2014_uleguin.html#.VA8bcmMXOYR">http://www.nationalbook.org/amerletters_2014_uleguin.html#.VA8bcmMXOYR</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Banned Books Week is September 21-27, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/OregonReadsBannedBooks">in Oregon</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Activities</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> National Book Foundation [mailto:nationalbook@nationalbook.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 09, 2014 8:16 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> The 2014 NBF DCAL Winner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="LETTER.BLOCK6"></a><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#5C86AB">URSULA K. LE GUIN IS NBF'S 2014 MEDALIST FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666">Ursula K. Le Guin will receive the Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in recognition of her transformative impact on American
literature. For more than forty years, Le Guin has defied conventions of narrative, language, character, and genre, as well as transcended the boundaries between fantasy and realism, to forge new paths for literary fiction. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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GUIN'S LITERARY IMPACT</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#5C86AB">NEIL GAIMAN TO PRESENT MEDAL TO LE GUIN AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY ON NOVEMBER 19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Gaiman has written for adults and children. The recipient of numerous awards, he is the only author to be awarded both the Newbery and Carnegie medals for the same work,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Graveyard Book. </span></em>His most recent novel,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Ocean at the End of the Lane,
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