{"id":1658,"date":"2019-02-05T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:47:11","slug":"sandra-cisneros-awarded-2019-pennabokov-award-achievement-international-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Cisneros awarded 2019 PEN\/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>From the judges:<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cSandra Cisneros has said that she writes because \u2018the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.\u2019 In a formidable and awe-inspiring body of work, which includes fiction, memoir, and poetry, Cisneros brings us astounding and lyrical voices from burning, maligned, devastated, as well as reassembled houses, and nations. It\u2019s hard to imagine navigating our world today without her stories and her voice guiding us towards needed much reclamation and endurance.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The 2019 judges are&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/meet-2019-literary-awards-judges\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#3498db\">Alexander Chee, Edwidge Danticat, and Valeria Luiselli<\/span><\/a><\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the judges:&nbsp;\u201cSandra Cisneros has said that she writes because \u2018the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.\u2019 In a formidable and awe-inspiring body of work, which includes fiction, memoir, and poetry, Cisneros brings us astounding and lyrical voices from burning, maligned, devastated, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,9,8,22],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awards","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-newsbrief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}