{"id":38616,"date":"2014-08-19T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=38616"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:25:22","slug":"mississippi-business-journal-robert-khayat-wins-2014-mississippi-author-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/mississippi-business-journal-robert-khayat-wins-2014-mississippi-author-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Business Journal: Robert Khayat wins 2014 Mississippi author award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">OXFORD, Mississippi\u00a0\u2014 The Mississippi Library Association has announced the winners of the 2014 Mississippi Author Awards. Robert Khayat, author of\u00a0<em>The Education of a Lifetime<\/em>\u00a0(Nautilus), was named Mississippi Author of the Year in the nonfiction category. Previous winners in nonfiction include Eudora Welty, Willie Morris and Margaret Walker. The winner in the fiction category was Michael Farris Smith for his novel\u00a0<em>Rivers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Otha Keys, Mississippi Author Awards committee member and a librarian at South Jones High School, said, \u201cThis memoir by Robert Khayat is one I could not put down. He is an excellent storyteller and he definitely has had an \u2018education of a lifetime.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Khayat, who heard about the award at his home in Oxford, said, \u201cMy family and I are profoundly grateful to the Mississippi Library Association for the Non-Fiction Award\u2014a complete and pleasant surprise to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe overarching goal of the book was to move the perception of Ole Miss and Mississippi from 1962 to the present. I felt it was my responsibility to help others understand us . . . and for us to acknowledge our challenges,\u201d Khayat added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/msbusiness.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/khayat-wins-2014-mississippi-author-award\/\">Read the entire story.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Mississippi\u00a0\u2014 The Mississippi Library Association has announced the winners of the 2014 Mississippi Author Awards. Robert Khayat, author of\u00a0The Education of a Lifetime\u00a0(Nautilus), was named Mississippi Author of the Year in the nonfiction category. Previous winners in nonfiction include Eudora Welty, Willie Morris and Margaret Walker. 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