{"id":2656,"date":"2012-04-16T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:53","slug":"how-sad-no-fiction-pulitzer-awarded-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/16\/how-sad-no-fiction-pulitzer-awarded-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"How sad.  No Fiction Pulitzer Awarded for 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1977, no fiction piece was awarded a prize. Nominated by the jurors as finalists were Denis Johnson&#8217;s <em>Train Dreams<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/12\/hot-by-mark-hertsgaard-swamplandia-and-vilmorin-vegetables-review.html\">Karen Russell<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/04\/swamplandia-i-think-i-love-you-and-other-reviews.html\">Swamplandia!<\/a><\/em> and David Foster Wallace&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2010\/11\/19\/david-foster-wallace-s-personal-files.html\">The Pale King<\/a><\/em>. But the board, which consists of 18 voting members and reads all the final entries, couldn&#8217;t agree on a winner\u00e2\u20ac\u201da majority vote is needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/16\/2012-pulitzer-prize-winners.html\">The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Who Won &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Fiction Pulitzer Awarded<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 1977, no fiction piece was awarded a prize. Nominated by the jurors as finalists were Denis Johnson&#8217;s Train Dreams, Karen Russell&#8217;s Swamplandia! and David Foster Wallace&#8217;s The Pale King. But the board, which consists of 18 voting members and reads all the final entries, couldn&#8217;t agree on a winner\u00e2\u20ac\u201da majority vote is needed.<\/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":[554,253,614,566],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-554","tag-fiction","tag-pulitzer","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","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=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10050,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/10050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}