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Clip: 08/02/2019 | 1m 58s Video has closed captioning.
Author Ursula K. Le Guin shares her National Books Award with all the writers "who were excluded from literature for so long."
Aired: 08/02/19
Ursula K. Le Guin's Passionate Acceptance Speech
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