33rd stamp of the Literary Series will depict Ursula C. Le Guin

A few days ago, the United States Postal Service (USPS) announced the release of the 33rd stamp of the Literary Series which will depict Ursula C. Le Guin.
The portrait adorning the stamp is by artist Donato Giancola.
On 22/02/2018 the great Ursula C. Le Guin passed away.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (21/10/1929 – 22/01/2018) was an American writer and poet with a huge contribution to the field of fiction and one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. She was distinguished for her incisive and stylistically sound style and for her bold and unconventional approach to her themes under the strong influence of feminist and socially progressive ideas, Taoism, ecology, metaphysics and Utopianism.
She has been repeatedly awarded the most prestigious prizes in the field of fiction – five Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. In 2013 she was named Grandmaster of Science Fiction by SFWA, and in 2014 she received the Outstanding Contribution to American Literature Award from the National Book Award organization, a distinction that reflects her broad appeal to the literary world at large.

The daughter of anthropologists, she grew up in an environment of letters, studied Medieval and Renaissance romance literature, and published her first novel in 1966. By 1970 she had established herself as one of the most important literary voices in the realm of fantasy and SF. Her work, varied and rich, spans such forms as the essay and poetry, and she also translated important texts of world literature, such as Lao Tse Ching’s Tao Te Ching, one of the most important treatises of Chinese philosophy.