{"id":269,"date":"2011-07-06T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=269"},"modified":"2012-02-18T23:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T23:41:58","slug":"quisque-nulla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/quisque-nulla\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan Writer Shortlisted for Caine Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/LUFWP\/content\/Beatrice_Lamwaka.htm\">Beatrice Lamwaka<\/a>\u00a0has been shortlisted for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/\">the Caine Prize for African Writing<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; one of the leading prizes open to African writers. Beatrice has participated in both the British Council &#8216;Crossing Borders&#8217; programme, directed by Professor Graham Mort from Lancaster. and the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/LUFWP\/index.html\">&#8216;Lancaster\/Uganda Friends Writing Project&#8217; organised by the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research and funded by the Lancaster University Friends Programme<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2007\/jul\/10\/news.awardsandprizes\">Monica Arak de Nyeko<\/a>, also a participant on Crossing Borders, won the prize in 2004. Graham Mort is currently Guest of Honour at the Femrite &#8216;Reading Uganda&#8217; literature festival in Kampala, where he has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.ug\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=14087&amp;Itemid=106\">featured in The Observer newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan writer\u00a0Beatrice Lamwaka\u00a0has been shortlisted for\u00a0the Caine Prize for African Writing\u00a0&#8211; one of the leading prizes open to African writers. Beatrice has participated in both the British Council &#8216;Crossing Borders&#8217; programme, directed by Professor Graham Mort from Lancaster. and the recent\u00a0&#8216;Lancaster\/Uganda Friends Writing Project&#8217; organised by the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research and funded&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/quisque-nulla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ugandan Writer Shortlisted for Caine Prize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,35,34,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caine-prize","category-crossing-borders","category-femrite","category-friends-writing-project","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}