{"id":798,"date":"2015-06-10T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=798"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:09:52","slug":"mst-tutor-patrick-mcguiness-book-is-wales-book-of-the-year-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Other People&#8217;s Countries&#8221; by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is Wales Book of the Year, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Other People&#8217;s Countries <\/em>by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walesbookoftheyear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other-Peoples-Countries.jpg?resize=112%2C156\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"156\" \/>Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry,\u00a0 Paul Henry said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stylistic quality of this brilliant, lyrical memoir is best described through a simile from the book where a bracelet of water \u201cdoesn\u2019t run over the stones but flexes like clear muscle over its riverbed.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s a poet\u2019s prose at its best \u2013 perfectly paced, effortless in its devices. Tender, humorous, moving and, in places, profound, <em>Other People\u2019s Countries<\/em> reminds us how great writing approaches the essence of Memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this at <a href=\"http:\/\/walesbookoftheyear.co.uk\/other-peoples-countries-by-patrick-mcguinness-is-wales-book-of-the-year-2015\/\">the Wales Book of the Year site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other People&#8217;s Countries by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015. Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry,\u00a0 Paul Henry said: \u201cThe stylistic quality of this brilliant, lyrical memoir is best described through a simile from the book [&hellip;]<\/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":"","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":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-cS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":711,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=711","url_meta":{"origin":798,"position":0},"title":"MSt tutor Patrick McGuinness wins Duff Cooper Prize, 2014","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"February 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt tutor Patrick McGuinness has been awarded the Duff Cooper prize for his novel,\u00a0 Other People\u2019s Countries, a Journey into Memory (Jonathan Cape) \"A stunning piece of lyrical writing, rich in narrative and character - full of fresh ways of looking at how we grow up, how we remember, how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MSt News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"MSt News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"image001","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2134,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2134","url_meta":{"origin":798,"position":1},"title":"MSt Course Director Dr Clare Morgan reads from her new short story collection, Scar Tissue, in Cardiff on Thursday 10 November","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"October 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt Course Director, Dr Clare Morgan, will be reading from her new short story collection Scar Tissue at the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, at 7pm on Thursday 10 November. 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