{"id":32032,"date":"2021-05-12T17:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/airini-beautrais-wins-new-zealands-ockham-fiction-prize-book-for-short-story-collection-bug-week"},"modified":"2021-05-12T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T08:45:41","slug":"airini-beautrais-wins-new-zealands-ockham-fiction-prize-for-short-story-collection-bug-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32032","title":{"rendered":"Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand\u2019s Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author, who usually writes poetry, beat two previous winners to the prestigious NZ$57,000 book award <\/p>\n<p>A collection of short stories has won the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand book awards \u2013 only the second time a collection has won the fiction prize in the awards\u2019 history, and the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Airini Beautrais won the NZ$57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction for her collection, Bug Week &amp; Other Stories. Beautrais has published several books of poetry, but Bug Week is her first work of fiction. She was nominated alongside two previous winners of the award \u2013 Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam \u2013 as well as a past nominee, Brannavan Gnanalingam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/airini-beautrais-wins-new-zealands-ockham-fiction-prize-book-for-short-story-collection-bug-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, who usually writes poetry, beat two previous winners to the prestigious NZ$57,000 book award A collection of short stories has won the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand book awards \u2013 only the second time a collection has won the fiction prize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,511,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32033,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32032\/revisions\/32033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}