{"id":489,"date":"2010-04-21T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T19:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2010-04-21T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T19:33:33","slug":"the-commonwealth-writers-prize-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"The Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Established in 1987, the Commonwealth Writers\u2019  Prize are organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, an  intergovernmental organisation working in the 53 countries of the  Commonwealth of Nations &amp; Macquarie Group Foundation.<br \/>\nThe main  objective of these prizes is to encourage new Commonwealth fiction.\u00a0 This is  for the first time that the award ceremony is hosted by India.<\/p>\n<p>Here  are the winners of 2010 Commonwealth Writers&#8217; Prize<br \/>\n<strong>Overall  Winners: <\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Commonwealth  Writers&#8217; Prize Best Book: Rana Dasgupta (India\/UK) for his work &#8220;Solo&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Commonwealth Writers&#8217; Prize Best First Book: Glenda  Guest of Australia for &#8220;Siddon Rock&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1987, the Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize are organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, an intergovernmental organisation working in the 53 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations &amp; Macquarie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=489\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9897,9898],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-honours","tag-commonwealth-writers-prize-2010","tag-the-commonwealth-writers-prize","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}