{"id":33563,"date":"2016-11-02T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33563"},"modified":"2016-11-01T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:52:01","slug":"congratulations-to-anna-smaill-on-winning-the-world-fantasy-award-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/congratulations-to-anna-smaill-on-winning-the-world-fantasy-award-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Anna Smaill on Winning the World Fantasy Award 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29152\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/an-interview-with-anna-smaill-author-of-the-chimes\/anna-smaill\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29152\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-29152\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Anna-Smaill-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit - Natalie Graham\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Anna-Smaill-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Anna-Smaill-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Anna-Smaill-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit &#8211; Natalie Graham<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Zealand author, Anna Smaill, has won the World Fantasy Award 2016 (Novel), for her dystopian novel, <em>The Chimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The World Fantasy Awards are regarded as very prestigious and are given for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year.\u00a0The award for Best Novel is not only a first for Anna but I am fairly certain it is a first for New Zealand as well &#8212; so very well done, Anna, on all counts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/11\/just-arrived-the-chimes-by-anna-smaill\/chimes_the\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28207\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chimes_The-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chimes_The\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chimes_The-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chimes_The-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chimes_The-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chimes_The.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>I interviewed Anna about <em>The Chimes<\/em> in May 2015 and the interview is available here:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/an-interview-with-anna-smaill-author-of-the-chimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Interview With Anna Smaill, Author Of \u201cThe Chimes\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>You can find the full list of 2016 World Fantasy Award winners in all categories on TOR.com:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/2016\/10\/30\/announcing-the-2016-world-fantasy-award-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Announcing the 2016 World Fantasy Award winners<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand author, Anna Smaill, has won the World Fantasy Award 2016 (Novel), for her dystopian novel, The Chimes. The World Fantasy Awards are regarded as very prestigious and are given for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year.\u00a0The award for Best Novel is not only a first for Anna [&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-33563","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\/33563","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=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33568,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions\/33568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}