{"id":253516,"date":"2007-07-30T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/30\/monica-arac-de-nyeko\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:57","slug":"monica-arac-de-nyeko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/30\/monica-arac-de-nyeko\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Arac de Nyeko"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>When Ugandan fiction writer and poet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossingborders-africanwriting.org\/writers\/?p=C2502009114301B0DEsIr42DDB79\">Monica Arac de Nyeko<\/a>, was recently declared the winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/\">2007 Caine Prize<\/a> for African Writing, her first reaction was a feeling of triumph.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Her many years of trying to bring the Ugandan woes to the &#8216;conscience of the world&#8217; had finally paid off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;From the early 1970s, there were hardly any writings from Uganda because of wars and conflicts in our country,&#8221; Nyeko told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastandard.net\/archives\/index.php?mnu=details&#38;id=1143972024&#38;catid=291\">Sunday Standard in an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ugandan fiction writer and poet, Monica Arac de Nyeko, was recently declared the winner of the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing, her first reaction was a feeling of triumph. Her many years of trying to bring the Ugandan woes to the &#8216;conscience of the world&#8217; had finally paid off. &#8220;From the early 1970s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,2596,2586],"class_list":["post-253516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-elegant-variation","tag-monica-arac-de-nyeko"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363966,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253516\/revisions\/363966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}