{"id":22815,"date":"2013-10-17T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22815"},"modified":"2013-10-16T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T07:30:53","slug":"congratulations-to-eleanor-catton-new-zealands-second-booker-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/congratulations-to-eleanor-catton-new-zealands-second-booker-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations To Eleanor Catton, New Zealand&#8217;s Second Booker Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/congratulations-to-eleanor-catton-new-zealands-second-booker-prize-winner\/luminaries\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22818\" title=\"Luminaries\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luminaries-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luminaries-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luminaries-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Luminaries.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to Eleanor Catton, whose second novel <strong><em>The Luminaries<\/em><\/strong> won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction yesterday &#8212; a tremendous achievement.<\/p>\n<p>She is the second New Zealand novelist to do so, the first being Keri Hulme for <strong><em>The Bone People<\/em><\/strong> in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the official announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/and-winner\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A full NZ report on Stuff is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/life-style\/9288707\/Kiwi-up-for-book-prize\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Graham Beattie, who attended the Guildhall dinner, offers some &#8220;random thoughts&#8221; on his Bookblog, <a href=\"http:\/\/beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/10\/random-thoughts-from-bookman-about-man.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also loved Eleanor&#8217;s speech, as heard on Radio NZ, around &#8220;worth&#8221; and &#8220;value&#8221; &#8212; I think I have that right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Eleanor Catton, whose second novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction yesterday &#8212; a tremendous achievement. She is the second New Zealand novelist to do so, the first being Keri Hulme for The Bone People in 1985. You can read the official announcement here. A full NZ report on Stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22824,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions\/22824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}