{"id":2589,"date":"2012-03-07T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T23:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:54","slug":"open-city-wins-penhemingway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/07\/open-city-wins-penhemingway\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Open City&#8217; wins PEN\/Hemingway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/books-and-literature\/book-blog\/open-city-wins-pen-hemingway\/article_49b7f326-67b3-11e1-ade3-001a4bcf6878.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4f564cc6d5cdc.preview-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open City&#8221; by Teju Cole has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Written in a deceptively quiet voice, Teju Cole&#8217;s remarkable and penetrating debut novel achieves what Kafka said art should; it chops the frozen sea within us,&#8221; said novelist and PEN award judge Andre Dubus III, quoted in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The award finalists are Amy Waldman for &#8220;The Submission&#8221; and Stephanie Powell Watts for &#8220;We Are Taking Only What We Need&#8221; (BkMk Press). BkMk Press is based in Kansas City at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Two writers will receive honorable mention: Marjorie Hudson for &#8220;Accidental Birds of the Carolinas&#8221; and Chad Harbach for &#8220;The Art of Fielding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/books-and-literature\/book-blog\/open-city-wins-pen-hemingway\/article_49b7f326-67b3-11e1-ade3-001a4bcf6878.html\">&#8216;Open City&#8217; wins PEN\/Hemingway<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Open City&#8221; by Teju Cole has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Written in a deceptively quiet voice, Teju Cole&#8217;s remarkable and penetrating debut novel achieves what Kafka said art should; it chops the frozen sea within us,&#8221; said novelist and PEN award judge Andre Dubus III, quoted in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[554,314,253,594,593,505,595],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-554","tag-award","tag-fiction","tag-firstbook","tag-hemingway","tag-pen","tag-tejucole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}