{"id":1212,"date":"2017-03-30T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:05:52","slug":"mst-alumna-kiran-millwood-hargrave-overall-winner-of-the-waterstones-childrens-book-prize-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave overall winner of the Waterstones Children\u2019s Book Prize 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s\u00a0The Girl of Ink & Stars<\/em> is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children\u2019s\u00a0 Book Prize 2017.\u00a0 It is also the winner in the category Younger Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the Waterstone’s website:<\/p>\n

“…we\u2019re proud to announce Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u2019s extraordinary debut The Girl of Ink & Stars<\/a> as the overall winner of our thirteenth Waterstones Children\u2019s Book Prize. Compared by our Children\u2019s buyer Florentyna Martin to the mythical atmosphere of Pullman\u2019s His Dark Materials, Kiran\u2019s storytelling prowess takes a tale already rich with invention and delivers a fantasy of real emotional heft.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more about the prize and the book<\/a><\/p>\n

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s\u00a0The Girl of Ink & Stars is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children\u2019s\u00a0 Book Prize 2017.\u00a0 It is also the winner in the category Younger Fiction. From the Waterstone’s website: “…we\u2019re proud to announce Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u2019s extraordinary debut The Girl of Ink & Stars as the overall winner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni_news","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-jy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1180,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1180","url_meta":{"origin":1212,"position":0},"title":"MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl Of Ink And Stars” shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"February 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Girl Of Ink And Stars has been shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize in the Young Readers category. \"Kiran Millwood-Hargrave ... offers us the rich allegories of a young girl fighting for truth against oppression...\" The winner will be announced on 30th March 2017.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Alumni News"","block_context":{"text":"Alumni News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/03fcd67fd51850d3ba6b-6cb392df11a341bce8c76b1898d0c030.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com\/medium\/9781\/9100\/9781910002742.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1110,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1110","url_meta":{"origin":1212,"position":1},"title":"MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel nominated for the Clip Carnegie Medal","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"October 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave's novel,\u00a0The Girl of Ink & Stars, has been nominated for the 2016 Clip Carnegie medal. 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