{"id":371,"date":"2016-12-19T01:18:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T01:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenightoftherambler.com\/?page_id=371"},"modified":"2017-05-21T01:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T01:46:34","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/books\/the-night-of-the-rambler\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Night-Rambler-The-Montague-Kobbe\/dp\/1617751812\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Night of the Rambler<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was longlisted for the\u00a02015 literary Grand Prix\u00a0of the Association des Ecrivains de la Cara\u00efbe in Guadeloupe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Night of the Rambler<\/em>\u00a0earned the first runner-up mention of the\u00a0Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas\u00a0award for best Caribbean book in English or Creole, announced on January 30, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This was the first time\u00a0that Anguilla featured in the\u00a055-year history of the award. Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas has a low commercial profile, and cultural and political barriers make it relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. For a concise review of its significance,\u00a0here&#8217;s a link to a piece I published in 2011 in Sint Maarten&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/memofromlalaland.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/11\/fifty-years-of-casa-de-las-americas\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Herald<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This year&#8217;s winner was David Austin for the essay\u00a0<em>Fear of a Black Nation &#8211; Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal<\/em>. Previous winners in this category include Kamau Brathwaite, Oonya Kempadoo, Marion Bethel, Velma Pollard and Andrew Salkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The award wasn&#8217;t widely covered by the English-language press, though the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bajanreporter.com\/2014\/03\/fear-of-a-black-nation-by-jamaicas-david-austin-wins-casa-award-for-caribbean-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bajan Reporter <\/a><\/em>did<em>\u00a0<\/em>publish a brief note about it<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want more? Here are some <a href=\"\/?page_id=357\">BONUS<\/a> tracks, short <a href=\"\/?page_id=200\">EXCERPTS<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?page_id=443\">AUDIO<\/a> material of the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Night of the Rambler\u00a0was longlisted for the\u00a02015 literary Grand Prix\u00a0of the Association des Ecrivains de la Cara\u00efbe in Guadeloupe. &nbsp; The Night of the Rambler\u00a0earned the first runner-up mention of the\u00a0Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas\u00a0award for best Caribbean book in English or Creole, announced on January 30, 2014. This was the first time\u00a0that Anguilla featured <a href=\"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/books\/the-night-of-the-rambler\/awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":526,"parent":183,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions\/5125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}