{"id":4041,"date":"2009-09-09T12:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/09\/09\/honorary-award-for-author-and-journalist\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:40:08","slug":"honorary-award-for-author-and-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/09\/honorary-award-for-author-and-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary award for author and journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Recognition for Wolverhampton-born Sathnam Sanghera<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"275\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SathnamSanghera180x232.jpg\"\/>AWARD-winning journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera has received an honorary award from the University of Wolverhampton.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The author of <em>The Boy with the Top Knot<\/em> was presented with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters at a ceremony\u00a0On Tuesday 8 September.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The award was made in recognition of Sathnam\u2019s contribution to journalism, for which he has received numerous awards <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sathnam gave a speech at the ceremony at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, in which he offered advice to graduates who were receiving their degrees yesterday. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0He said: \u201cThe hardest thing in life is to work out what you want to do. Once you have worked that out, it is relatively easy to do.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sathnam was born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands in 1976 and attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and Christ\u2019s College, Cambridge.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0His first book, <em>The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton<\/em>, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Biography Award and the 2009 Mind Book of the Year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sathnam worked as a news reporter at The Financial Times in the UK and US between 1998 and 2006, before joining The Times in 2007.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He has been awarded numerous awards for journalism, including HR Journalist of the Year in the 2006.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognition for Wolverhampton-born Sathnam Sanghera AWARD-winning journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera has received an honorary award from the University of Wolverhampton. &#13; The author of The Boy with the Top Knot was presented with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters at a ceremony\u00a0On Tuesday 8 September.\u00a0 &#13; The award was made in recognition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}