{"id":31760,"date":"2013-06-16T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31760"},"modified":"2013-06-16T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T21:12:24","slug":"hay-winners-search-for-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31760","title":{"rendered":"Hay winner&#8217;s search for identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/wales\/mid_\/2940110.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Hay winner&#8217;s search for identity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2003-05-27<\/p>\n<p><em>A first-time writer who travelled halfway round the world to trace her roots has won the Welsh Book of the Year award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hay_Festival\" target=\"_blank\">Hay Festival<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/staff\/williams_charlotte\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Williams&#8217;<\/a> tale of her search for her identity, entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4001\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar and Slate<\/a><\/em>, took her to three different continents.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Williams, who has Welsh, African and Latin American heritage, wrote the book following trips across the world to find more about her background.<\/p>\n<p>She overcame challenges from 60 other writers to claim the \u00a33,000 first prize.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a black father from Guyana in the Caribbean, Ms Williams said the journey to research her past became a confrontation with herself and the idea of Welshness.<\/p>\n<p>In the book she recalls feeling as a child growing up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llandudno\" target=\"_blank\">Llandudno<\/a>, north Wales, that<strong> &#8220;somehow to be half-Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all&#8221;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/wales\/mid_\/2940110.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hay winner&#8217;s search for identity BBC News 2003-05-27 A first-time writer who travelled halfway round the world to trace her roots has won the Welsh Book of the Year award at the Hay Festival. Charlotte Williams&#8217; tale of her search for her identity, entitled Sugar and Slate, took her to three different continents. Ms Williams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,10,25],"tags":[8597,1614],"class_list":["post-31760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-bbc-news","tag-charlotte-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}