{"id":6569,"date":"2023-12-04T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6569"},"modified":"2023-12-04T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:03:48","slug":"sudanese-novelist-reem-gaafar-wins-the-island-award-for-african-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/sudanese-novelist-reem-gaafar-wins-the-island-award-for-african-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Novelist Reem Gaafar Wins the Island Award for African Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novelist Reem Gaafar has received The Island Award for\u00a0African Novels 2023 for\u00a0the manuscript of her debut novel,\u00a0A Mouth Full of Salt,\u00a0She is the first Sudanese novelist to be nominated for and win the award.<br \/>\nEstablished by South African writer Karen Jennings, The Island Award is a literary award, aims to provide resources and support for new writers on the African continent, and help African writers break into the UK publishing arena.<br \/>\nOpen to unpublished novelists from all African countries or the diaspora, this award was established in honour of Jennings\u2019s novel, An Island, which has been\u00a0longlisted for the Booker prize in 2021.<br \/>\nAnnounced in April 2023, Gaafar was nominated for the award along with nine African writers, including three writers from South Africa, two from Nigeria, one from Zimbabwe, one from Tanzania and one from Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan events Novelist Reem Gaafar has received The Island Award for\u00a0African Novels 2023 for\u00a0the manuscript of her debut novel,\u00a0A Mouth Full of Salt,\u00a0She is the first Sudanese novelist to be nominated for and win the award. Established by South African writer Karen Jennings, The Island Award is a literary award, aims to provide &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}