Contents

1 Book of the Year 2 Children's Book 3 First Novel 4 Novel 5 Biography 6 Poetry 7 Other Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

Children's Book

Winner:

• J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Shortlist:

• Carol Ann Duffy, Meeting Midnight
• Michael Morpurgo, Kensuke’s Kingdom
• Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum

First Novel

Winner:

• Tim Lott, White City Blue

Shortlist:

• Suzanne Cleminshaw, The Great Ideas
• Andrew O’Hagan, Our Fathers
• Francine Stock, A Foreign Country

Novel

Winner:

• Rose Tremain, Music and Silence

Shortlist:

• Jim Crace, Being Dead
• Michael Frayn, Headlong
• Joanne Harris, Chocolat

Biography

Winner:

• David Cairns, Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness

Shortlist:

• Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin
• Hilary Spurling, Matisse

Poetry

Winner:

• Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

Shortlist:

• Michael Hofmann, Approximately Nowhere
• Ted Hughes, Alcestis
• Don Paterson, The Eyes

Other Whitbread Awards

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