{"id":8319,"date":"2025-03-13T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8319"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:40:44","slug":"gerard-woodward","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/gerard-woodward\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Woodward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Woodward was born in London in 1961. He published four poetry collections with Chatto &amp; Windus: <em>Householder<\/em> (1991), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; <em>After the Deafening <\/em>(1994), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; <em>Island to Island <\/em>(1999); and <em>We Were Pedestrians <\/em>(2005), also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His first novel, <em>August<\/em>, was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed in 2004 by <em>I\u2019ll Go To Bed At Noon<\/em>, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Since being shortlisted for the Eliot Prize, Gerard Woodward has published two poetry collections with Picador: <em>The Seacunny<\/em> (2012) and <em>The Vulture<\/em> (2022). He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. <em>Photo \u00a9 Charles Hopkinson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Woodward was born in London in 1961. He published four poetry collections with Chatto &amp; Windus: Householder (1991), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; After the Deafening (1994), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Island to Island (1999); and We Were Pedestrians (2005), also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9062,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8319","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}