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1995 Whitbread Awards

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The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1995.

Contents

Book of the Year

  • Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

    • Children's Book

    Winner:

  • Michael Morpurgo, The Wreck of the Zanzibar

    • Shortlist:

  • Elizabeth Arnold, The Parsley Parcel
  • Philip Ridley, Kasper in the Glitter

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

    • Shortlist:

  • Stephen Blanchard, Gagarin & I
  • Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh

    • Shortlist:

  • Martin Amis, The Information
  • Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
  • Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

    • Biography

    Winners:

  • Roy Jenkins, Gladstone

    • Shortlist:

  • Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain – A Life
  • Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
  • Geoffrey Wansell, Terence Rattigan

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder

    • Shortlist:

  • Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
  • Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
  • Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked

    • References

    1995 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
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