{"id":22692,"date":"2012-11-05T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=22692"},"modified":"2012-11-06T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:16:08","slug":"lavie-tidhar-wins-2012-world-fantasy-award-for-best-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=22692","title":{"rendered":"Lavie Tidhar Wins 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/osama_DJ_final1small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22693\" title=\"osama_DJ_final1small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/osama_DJ_final1small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/osama_DJ_final1small.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/osama_DJ_final1small-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Osama<\/em> by Lavie Tidhar was awarded the prestigious 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in a ceremony at the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto Canada on November 4, 2012. In the novel, Tidhar explores the impact of terrorism through the character of Joe, a private investigator searching for the elusive Mike Longshott, author of a series of pulp fiction novels that includes &#8220;Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Akin Ajayi reviewed <em>Osama<\/em> for Midnight East, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=15159\" target=\"_blank\">complete review here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osama by Lavie Tidhar was awarded the prestigious 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in a ceremony at the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto Canada on November 4, 2012. In the novel, Tidhar explores the impact of terrorism through the character of Joe, a private investigator searching for the elusive Mike Longshott, author of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}