{"id":800,"date":"2014-12-15T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=800"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:39:47","slug":"further-accolade-for-creative-writing-alumna-emmi-itaranta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2014\/12\/15\/further-accolade-for-creative-writing-alumna-emmi-itaranta\/","title":{"rendered":"Further accolade for Creative Writing alumna Emmi It\u00e4ranta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmi It\u00e4ranta&#8217;s first novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062326164\/memory-of-water\">Memory of Water<\/a> has been listed as the one of the best science fiction novels of 2014 in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/dec\/05\/best-science-fiction-books-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian Review<\/a>. The first chapter of the novel was written whilst she was studying for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/postgraduate\/taught\/creativewriting.html\">MA in Creative Writing<\/a> in 2008. Following the completion of her MA she was offered a two book deal with Harper Collins. The School of English hosted a book launch for Emmi earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062326164\/memory-of-water\">Memory of Water<\/a>\u00a0is set in a future world and is described as a coming-of-age tale. The main character, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio, is given responsibility for guarding one of the last known freshwater springs. As Emmi is originally from Finland the book was written concurrently in English and Finnish. The novel has now been translated into 14 languages. Writing in the Guardian Adam Roberts commented that this is a &#8216;poetic and melancholy debut&#8217; from the Finnish author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmi It\u00e4ranta&#8217;s first novel Memory of Water has been listed as the one of the best science fiction novels of 2014 in a Guardian Review. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2014\/12\/15\/further-accolade-for-creative-writing-alumna-emmi-itaranta\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,87526,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}