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1985 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 1985.

Contents

Book of the Year

Douglas Dunn, Elegies

Children's Book

Winner:

  • Janni Howker, The Nature of the Beast
  • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  • Novel

    Winner:

  • Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
  • Biography

    Winners:

  • Ben Pimlott, Hugh Dalton
  • Poetry

    Winners:

  • Douglas Dunn, Elegies
  • References

    1985 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia