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1997 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 1997.

Contents

Book of the Year

  • Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

    • Children's Book

  • Andrew Norriss, Aquila

    • Shortlist

  • Alan Temperley, Harry and the Wrinklies
  • Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird
  • Melvin Burgess, Junk

    • First Novel

  • Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist's Tale

    • Shortlist

  • Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger
  • Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
  • Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy
  • Phil Whitaker, Eclipse of the Sun

    • Novel

  • Jim Crace, Quarantine

    • Shortlist

  • John Banville, The Untouchable
  • Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
  • Patrick McGrath, Asylum
  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
  • Geoff Nicholson, Bleeding London

    • Biography

  • Graham Robb, Victor Hugo

    • Shortlist

  • Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
  • Kate Summerscale, Queen of Whale Cay
  • Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord
  • Jenny Uglow, Hogarth, A Life and a World

    • Poetry

  • Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

    • Shortlist

  • Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand
  • Selima Hill, Sugar-Paper blue Violet
  • Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
  • Peter Redgrove, Assembling a Ghost

    • References

    1997 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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