{"id":27571,"date":"2012-10-31T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2012-10-31T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:21:54","slug":"jet-alum-will-ferguson-receives-canadian-literature-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/31\/jet-alum-will-ferguson-receives-canadian-literature-award\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alum Will Ferguson Wins Canadian Lit Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27572\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine_files\/JQ_MayJune2010.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27572\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27572  \" title=\"Microsoft Word - JQ May-June 2010 Cover Draft.doc\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JQ-May-June-2010-Cover-Draft-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JQ-May-June-2010-Cover-Draft-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JQ-May-June-2010-Cover-Draft-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click image for JQ magazine&#8217;s 2010 feature story on Will Ferguson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2012\/10\/30\/arts\/ap-cn-canada-books-giller-prize.html?hphttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> via the <\/em>New York Times<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 30, celebrated JET alum author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willferguson.ca\/\">Will Ferguson<\/a> (Nagasaki-ken, 1991-94) <\/strong>won the <strong>Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/strong>, a $50,000 Canadian fiction award,\u00a0 for a his novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/419-Will-Ferguson\/dp\/0670064718\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351706473&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=will+ferguson+419\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>419<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, about a family&#8217;s entanglement in a Nigerian email scam.<\/p>\n<p>A kilt-wearing Ferguson pulled out a flask during his acceptance speech and raised a toast to the written word. Presenters included <em>Sex and the City<\/em> actress Kim Cattrall.<\/p>\n<p>The Giller, which honors the best in Canadian fiction, was created in 1994 by businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s ceremony was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. For a CBC video of Ferguson on writing <em>419<\/em> and being a Giller finalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hGqLtgqJ6LM\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"_dyhb23rg4374\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Associated Press via the New York Times: On Oct. 30, celebrated JET alum author Will Ferguson (Nagasaki-ken, 1991-94) won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a $50,000 Canadian fiction award,\u00a0 for a his novel 419, about a family&#8217;s entanglement in a Nigerian email scam. A kilt-wearing Ferguson pulled out a flask during his acceptance speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,40,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-jq-magazine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27571"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27577,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions\/27577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}