2001 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 2001.
2001 was the first year that a book in the children's category was chosen as book of the year.
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[edit] Book of the Year
[edit] Children's Book
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
- Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea
- Terry Jones, The Lady and the Squire
[edit] First Novel
Winner:
- Sid Smith, Something Like A House
Shortlist:
- Will Eaves, The Oversight
- Carl Tighe, Burning Worm
- Gerard Woodward, August
[edit] Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Helen Dunmore, The Siege
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Andrew Miller, Oxygen
[edit] Biography
Winner:
- Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island
Shortlist:
- Anthony Bailey, A View of Delft
- Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task
- Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life
[edit] Poetry
Winner:
- Selima Hill, Bunny
Shortlist
- Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String
- Wendy Cope, If I don't know
- John Stammers, Panoramic Lounge-Bar
Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)
