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Pip Adam Wins the 2026 Ursula K Le Guin Prize

New Zealand author Pip Adam has been awarded the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for the novel Audition, published by Coffee House Press.

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The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has named Pip Adam the winner of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for the novel Audition, published by Coffee House Press. Literary Hub and Reactor Mag both reported the announcement on October 21, 2026. [1][5]

Literary Hub reported that the annual prize recognizes works that align with the literary, moral, and aesthetic ideals of Ursula K. Le Guin. The selection panel noted that Adam used an innovative narrative structure and prose to explore alternatives to contemporary life. [1]

Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize was established in 2022 as an annual award for a single work of imaginative fiction written in English, carrying a cash value of $25,000. [6][7]

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In short

  • Pip Adam won the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for the novel Audition.
  • Audition is published by Coffee House Press.
  • The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize carries an award of $25,000 for imaginative fiction.

Sources

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  1. [1]Pip Adam has won the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.Literary Hub, 7h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Anne Carson Awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in LiteraturePenguin Random House, 20h ago
  3. [3]Anne Carson Wins 2026 Nobel Prize In LiteratureLEADERSHIP Newspapers, 23h ago
  4. [4]Rebecca Skloot, Author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", Receives the 2026 NYU/Axinn Foundation PrizeNew York University, 10h ago
  5. [5]Pip Adam’s Audition Wins the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fictionreactormag.com, 7h ago

Background

  1. [6]Ursula K. Le Guin Prize on Wikipedia
  2. [7]Pip Adam on Wikipedia
  3. [8]Split Fiction on Wikipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 8 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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