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1996 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 1996.

Contents

Book of the Year

Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level

Children's Book

Winner:

  • Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch

    • Shortlist:

  • Russell Hoban, The Trokeville Way
  • Geraldine McCaughrean, Plundering Paradise
  • Philip Pullman, Clockwork or All Wound Up

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure

    • Shortlist:

  • Seamus Deane, Reading In the Dark
  • Georgina Hammick, The Arizona Game
  • Mary Morrissy, Mother of Pearl

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself

    • Shortlist:

  • Neil Bartlett, Mr Clive & Mr Page
  • J. G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
  • Patrick McGrath, Asylum
  • Graham Swift, Last Orders
  • Fay Weldon, Worst Fears

    • Biography

    Winners:

  • Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life

    • Shortlist:

  • Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot: A Life
  • Flora Fraser, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline
  • James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett

    • Poetry

    Winners:

  • Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level

    • Shortlist:

  • UA Fanthorpe, Safe As Houses
  • Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile
  • Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
  • Pauline Stainer, The Wound-dresser’s Dream

    • References

    1996 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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