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Whitbread Book Awards
 

The Whitbread Book Awards was established in 1971 and aims to celebrate and promote the best of contemporary British writing.

The four Whitbread Awards are Poetry, Biography, First Novel and Novel, and are each chosen by a three-member judging panel. The winner of each Award receives £2,000.

The overall Whitbread Book of the Year, worth £21,000, is chosen from these four Award winners. The Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year is a separate Award worth £10,000. The winners of both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year are chosen by a nine-member judging panel.

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Whitbread Award Winners for 2001
Award Title Author
Book of the Year The Amber Spyglass Pullman, Philip
Biography Selkirk's Island Souhami, Diana
First Novel Something Like a House Smith, Sid
Novel Twelve Bar Blues Neate, Patrick
Poetry Bunny Hill, Selima



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 2000
Award Title Author
Book of the Year English Passengers Kneale, Matthew
Biography Bad Blood - A Memoir Sage, Lorna
First Novel White Teeth Smith, Zadie
Poetry The Asylum Dance Burnside, John



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1999
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Beowulf Heaney, Seamus
Biography Berlioz, Volume 2 Cairns, David
First Novel White City Blue Lott, Tim
Novel Music and Silence Tremain, Rose
Poetry Beowulf Heaney, Seamus



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1998
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Birthday Letters Hughes, Ted
Biography Gorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Foreman, Amanda
First Novel The Last King of Scotland Foden, Giles
Novel Leading the Cheers Cartwright, Justin
Poetry Birthday Letters Hughes, Ted



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1997
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Tales Drom Ovid Hughes, Ted
Biography Victor Hugo Robb, Graham
First Novel The Ventriloquist's Tale Melville, Pauline
Novel Quarantine Crace, Jim
Poetry Tales from Ovid Hughes, Ted



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1996
Award Title Author
Book of the Year The Spirit Level Heaney, Seamus
Biography Thomas Cranmer: A Life MacCulloch, Diarmaid
First Novel The Debt to Pleasure Lanchester, John
Novel Every Man for Himself Bainbridge, Beryl
Poetry The Spirit Level Heaney, Seamus



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1995
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Behind the Scenes at the Museum Atkinson, Kate
Biography Gladstone Jenkins, Roy
First Novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum Atkinson, Kate
Novel The Moor's Last Sigh Rushdie, Salmon
Poetry Gunpowder O'Donoghue, Bernard



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1994
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Felicia's Journey Trevor, William
Biography D H Lawrence: The Married Man Maddox, Brenda
First Novel The Longest Memory D'Aguiar, Fred
Novel Felicia's Journey Trevor, William
Poetry Out of Danger Fenton, James



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1993
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Theory of War Brady, Joan
Biography Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life Motion, Andrew
First Novel Theory of War Brady, Joan
Novel Felicia's Journey Trevor, William
Poetry Mean Time Duffy, Carol Ann



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1992
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Swing Hammer Swing! Torrington, Jeff
Biography Trollope Glendinning, Victoria
First Novel Swing Hammer Swing! Torrington, Jeff
Novel Poor Things Gray, Alasdair
Poetry The Gaze of the Gorgon Harrison, Tony



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1991
Award Title Author
Book of the Year A Life Of Picasso Richardson, John
Biography A LIFE OF PICASSO Richardson, John
First Novel Alma Cogan Burn, Gordon
Novel The Queen of the Tambourine Gardam, Gardam
Poetry Gorse Fires Longley, Michael



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1990
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Hopeful Monsters Mosley, Nicholas
Biography A A Milne: His Life Thwaite, Ann
First Novel The Buddha of Suburbia Kureishi
Novel Hopeful Monsters Mosley, Nicholas
Poetry Daddy, Daddy Durcan, Paul



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1989
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Coleridge: Early Visions Holmes, Richard
Biography COLERIDGE: EARLY VISIONS Holmes, Richard
First Novel Gerontius Hamilton-Paterson, James
Novel The Chymical Wedding Clarke, Lindsay
Poetry Shibboleth Donaghy, Michael



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1988
Award Title Author
Book of the Year The Comforts of Madness Sayer, Paul
Biography Tolstoy Wilson, A N
First Novel The Comforts of Madness Sayer, Paul
Novel The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman
Poetry The Automatic Oracle Porter, Peter



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1987
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Under The Eye of the Clock Nolan, Christopher
Biography Under the Eye of the Clock Nolan, Christopher
First Novel The Other Garden Wyndham, Francis
Novel The Child in Time McEwan, Ian
Poetry The Haw Lantern Heaney



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1986
Award Title Author
Book of the Year An Artist of the Floating World Ishiguro, Kazuo
Biography Gilbert White Mabey, Richard
First Novel Continent Crace, Jim
Novel An Artist of the Floating World Ishiguro, Kazuo
Poetry Stet Reading, Peter



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1985
Award Title Author
Book of the Year Elegies Dunn, Douglas
Biography Hugh Dalton Cape, Jonathan
First Novel Oranges are not the only Fruit Winterson, Jeanette
Novel Hawksmoor Ackroyd, Peter
Poetry Elegies Dunn, Douglas



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1984
Award Title Author
Biography T S Eliot Ackroyd, Peter
First Novel A Parish of Rich Women Buchan, James
Novel Kruger's Alp Hope, Christopher



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1983
Award Title Author
Biography Vita Glendinning, Victoria
Biography King George V Rose, Kenneth
First Novel Flying to Nowhere Fuller, John
Novel Fools of Fortune Trevor, William



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1982
Award Title Author
Biography Bismarck Crankshaw, Edward
First Novel On the Black Hill Chatwin, Bruce
Novel Young Shoulders Wain, John



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1981
Award Title Author
Biography Monty: The Making of a General Hamilton, Hamish
First Novel A Good Man in Africa Boyd, William
Novel Silver's City Leitch, Maurice



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1980
Award Title Author
Biography On the Edge of Paradise:A C Benson the Diarist Newsome, David
Novel How Far Can You Go? Lodge, David



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1979
Award Title Author
Biography About Time Mortimer, Penelope
Novel The Old Jest Johnston, Jennifer



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1978
Award Title Author
Biography Lloyd George: The People's Champion Grigg, John
Novel Picture Palace Theroux, Paul



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1977
Award Title Author
Biography Mary Curzon Nicolson, Nigel
Novel Injury Time Bainbridge, Beryl



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1976
Award Title Author
Biography Elizabeth Gaskell Gerin, Winifred
Novel Bodley Head William, Trevor



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1975
Award Title Author
Biography In Our Infancy Corke, Helen
First Novel The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelock Spalding, Ruth
Novel Docherty McIlvanney, William



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1974
Award Title Author
Biography Poor Dear Brendan Boyle, Andrew
First Novel The Life & Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Tomalin, Claire
Novel The Sacred & Profane Love Machine Murdoch, Iris



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1973
Award Title Author
Biography CB: A Life of Henry Campbell-Bannerman Wilson, John
Novel The Chip Chip Gatherers Naipaul, Shiva



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1972
Award Title Author
Biography Trollope Pope-Hennessey, James
Novel The Bird of Night Hill, Susan



 
Whitbread Award Winners for 1971
Award Title Author
Biography Henrik Ibsen Meyer, Michael
Novel The Destiny Waltz Charles, Gerda
Poetry Mercian Hymns Hill, Geoffrey




 
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