{"id":191,"date":"2018-04-05T19:48:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/?p=191"},"modified":"2018-04-05T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:48:39","slug":"childrens-strega-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/childrens-strega-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Strega Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t win &#8211; that honour goes to\u00a0Paola Zannoner her book, L&#8217;Ultimo Faro &#8211; The Last Lighthouse. But I did have a lovely time. I love Italy; my publishers there are fabulous and of course it was a delight to be up for a big prize.<\/p>\n<p>It was also very lovely to meet up again with my fabulous Italian translator, Angela Ragusa. I had a great time hanging out with<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-191-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Behind-the-Scenes_-Interview-of-Melvin-Burgess-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Behind-the-Scenes_-Interview-of-Melvin-Burgess-1.mp4\">http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Behind-the-Scenes_-Interview-of-Melvin-Burgess-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>her and her hubby, Bill, who filmed the video below &#8211; a behind the scenes look at an interview I did at the Bologna Book Fair. Thanks to Bill and Woolf Digital for letting me use it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t win &#8211; that honour goes to\u00a0Paola Zannoner her book, L&#8217;Ultimo Faro &#8211; The Last Lighthouse. But I did have a lovely time. I love Italy; my publishers there are fabulous and of course it was a delight to be up for a big prize. It was also very lovely to meet up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}