<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1973 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin . With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child . </P> <P> "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974 . </P> <P> Le Guin's piece was originally published in New Dimensions 3, a hard - cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973 . It was reprinted in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters in 1975, and has been frequently anthologized elsewhere . </P>

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