{"id":33559,"date":"2025-07-30T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:59:12","slug":"the-book-of-george-wins-gabe-hudson-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/33559\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Book of George’ wins Gabe Hudson Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A comic novel about a cynic\u2019s struggles to connect with others has won a $10,000 award<\/a> named for a widely-respected author and editor, the late Gabe Hudson.<\/p>\n

Kate Greathead\u2019s \u201cThe Book of George\u201d is this year\u2019s recipient of the Gabe Hudson Prize, which is administered by the literary publisher McSweeney\u2019s<\/a>. \u201cThe Book of George\u201d was praised by The Associated Press reviewer Kendal Weaver<\/a>, who called Greathead \u201ca gifted storyteller who reels off dialogue filled with wit and humor so well it makes page-turning a pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hudson, who died in 2023 at age 52, was a creative teacher, a McSweeney\u2019s editor and a prizewinning writer whose books included the novel \u201cDear Mr. President.\u201d The prize, endowed by his mother, Sanchia Semere, is given for a book that conveys \u201chumor, pathos, and a deep understanding of contemporary America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greathead said in a statement Wednesday that Hudson\u2019s \u201cgenerosity of spirit and humor are traits I admire greatly in writers and non-writers alike, and to be a small part of his legacy is as meaningful a tribute as I can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has become an unfortunate clich\u00e9 that award recipients often say they are \u2018humbled\u2019 on such occasions, but in thinking of what Gabe and his writing meant to people, it is the word that comes first to mind,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The Hudson prize was launched last year: The first winner was Ayana Mathis\u2019 \u201cThe Unsettled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A comic novel about a cynic\u2019s struggles to connect with others has won a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[10052,20194,457,9105,2973,96,20195,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-33559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-ayana-mathis","tag-books","tag-books-and-literature","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-greathead","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}