{"id":15386,"date":"2020-03-04T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/ockhams-erase-her-frontrunner-elizabeth-knox-doesnt-make-books-award-shortlist"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:54:19","slug":"ockhams-erase-her-surprise-as-elizabeth-knox-left-off-books-award-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15386","title":{"rendered":"Ockhams erase her: surprise as Elizabeth Knox left off books award shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shock in New Zealand as writer, heavily favoured to win the fiction prize, is absent from list of nominees<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s most prestigious literary prize,<strong> <\/strong>The Ockhams<strong>,<\/strong> has caused controversy after one of the country\u2019s most popular writers was left off its shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusion of Elizabeth Knox, best-selling author of The Vitner\u2019s Luck and The Absolute Book, has generated confusion and dismay among literary commentators,<strong> <\/strong>with<strong> <\/strong>many wondering if the fantasy elements of her novel put off the judges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/04\/ockhams-erase-her-frontrunner-elizabeth-knox-doesnt-make-books-award-shortlist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shock in New Zealand as writer, heavily favoured to win the fiction prize, is absent from list of nomineesNew Zealand\u2019s most prestigious literary prize, The Ockhams, has caused controversy after one of the country\u2019s most popular writers was left off it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,763,511,71,1041,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-awards-and-prizes","category-books","category-culture","category-fiction","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions\/15387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}