1999 Whitbread Awards
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The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1999.
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[edit] Book of the Year
- Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
[edit] 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
[edit] First Novel
Winner:
- Tim Lott, White City Blue
Shortlist:
- Suzanne Cleminshaw, The Great Ideas
- Andrew O’Hagan, Our Fathers
- Francine Stock, A Foreign Country
[edit] Novel
Winner:
- Rose Tremain, Music and Silence
Shortlist:
- Jim Crace, Being Dead
- Michael Frayn, Headlong
- Joanne Harris, Chocolat
[edit] Biography
Winner:
- David Cairns, Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness
Shortlist:
- Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin
- Hilary Spurling, Matisse
[edit] Poetry
Winner:
- Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
Shortlist:
- Michael Hofmann, Approximately Nowhere
- Ted Hughes, Alcestis
- Don Paterson, The Eyes
Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)
