{"id":61103,"date":"2024-04-23T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/?post_type=pc_contributor&#038;p=61103"},"modified":"2024-05-08T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:02:35","slug":"alison-macleod","status":"publish","type":"pc_contributor","link":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/contributor\/alison-macleod\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison MacLeod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alison Macleod\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;most recent novel,&nbsp;<em>Tenderness<\/em>,&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;\u2018Best Book of 2021,\u2019 a \u2018Book of the Year\u2019 for&nbsp;<em>The Spectator<\/em>, a \u2018Best New Book\u2019 for PEOPLE Magazine and&nbsp;<em>The Sunday Times<\/em>&nbsp;\u2018Historical Fiction Book of the Month.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MacLeod\u2019s novel,&nbsp;<em>Unexploded<\/em>,&nbsp;was long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize for Fiction and The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and named one of the&nbsp;<em>Observer<\/em>\u2019s \u2018Books of the Year.\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her most recent story collection,\u00a0<em>All the Beloved Ghosts<\/em>,\u00a0was shortlisted for Canada\u2019s national Governor General\u2019s Award for Fiction and named one of the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u2019s \u2018Best Books of 2017.\u2019\u00a0 It was shortlisted for The 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for best single-author short story collection in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Macleod\u2019s&nbsp;most recent novel,&nbsp;Tenderness,&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;\u2018Best Book of 2021,\u2019 a \u2018Book of the Year\u2019 for&nbsp;The Spectator, a \u2018Best New Book\u2019 for PEOPLE Magazine and&nbsp;The Sunday Times&nbsp;\u2018Historical Fiction Book of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6464,"featured_media":56040,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61103","pc_contributor","type-pc_contributor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pc_contributor\/61103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pc_contributor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pc_contributor"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pc_contributor\/61103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}