{"id":257356,"date":"2007-11-01T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/01\/guardian-first-book-award-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:14","slug":"guardian-first-book-award-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/01\/guardian-first-book-award-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian First Book Award Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Guardian<\/i> just <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/fba2007\/story\/0,,2202992,00.html?gusrc=rss&#38;feed=networkfront\">announced<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/fba2007\/story\/0,,2203095,00.html\">shortlist<\/a> for its First Fiction Award. <\/p>\n<p>Pretty interesting mix that includes novels, a biography, and a work of nonfiction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>A Golden Age<\/i> by Tahmima Anam (John Murray) <\/li>\n<li><i>Imperial Life in the Emerald City<\/i> by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)<\/li>\n<li><i>God&#8217;s Architect<\/i> by Rosemary Hill (Allen Lane) <\/li>\n<li><i>Children of the Revolution<\/i> by Dinaw Mengestu (Jonathan Cape)<\/li>\n<li><i>What Was Lost<\/i> by Catherine O&#8217;Flynn (Tindal Street Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winner will be announced in December. Personally I&#8217;m pulling for Dinaw and <i>Children of the Revolution<\/i> (called <i>The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears<\/i> in the States). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian just announced the shortlist for its First Fiction Award. Pretty interesting mix that includes novels, a biography, and a work of nonfiction: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (John Murray) Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury) God&#8217;s Architect by Rosemary Hill (Allen Lane) Children of the Revolution by Dinaw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,7646],"class_list":["post-257356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-guardian-first-book-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257356","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361356,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257356\/revisions\/361356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}