The book "The Dispossessed" was written by whom?

The book “The Dispossessed” was written by Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 1974, it is one of Le Guin’s best-known science-fiction novels and carries the subtitle An Ambiguous Utopia.

The story follows Shevek, a physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, who travels to the neighboring planet Urras. The two worlds represent sharply contrasting social systems: Anarres rejects private property and centralized government, while Urras is divided among capitalist, socialist, and authoritarian powers.

The novel belongs to Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, although it stands alone as a complete story. Its title refers both to political dispossession and to the ways societies can lose freedom, community, or moral purpose. Readers sometimes confuse it with Le Guin’s Earthsea books, which are fantasy rather than science fiction.

The Dispossessed won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for best novel, a rare sweep that helped establish Le Guin as a major literary voice in speculative fiction.