{"id":8592,"date":"2025-03-19T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8592"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:58:29","slug":"john-fuller","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/john-fuller\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fuller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His collection<i> Stones and Fires<\/i> (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; <i>Ghosts <\/i>(2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; <i>The Space of Joy<\/i> (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and <i>The Grey Among the Green <\/i>(1988), <i>Song &amp; Dance <\/i>(2008) and <i>Pebble &amp; I <\/i>(2010) were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 1983 novel <i>Flying to Nowhere<\/i> won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Paul Stuart<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of John Fuller is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/\">Penguin website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His collection Stones and Fires (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; Ghosts (2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Grey Among the Green (1988), Song &amp; Dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9906,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8592","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8592","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\/9906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}