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1999 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 1999.

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Book of the Year

Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

Children's Book

Winner:

  • J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    • Shortlist:

  • Carol Ann Duffy, Meeting Midnight
  • Michael Morpurgo, Kensuke's Kingdom
  • Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Tim Lott, White City Blue

    • Shortlist:

  • Suzanne Cleminshaw, The Great Ideas
  • Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
  • Francine Stock, A Foreign Country

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Rose Tremain, Music and Silence

    • Shortlist:

  • Jim Crace, Being Dead
  • Michael Frayn, Headlong
  • Joanne Harris, Chocolat

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • David Cairns, Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness

    • Shortlist:

  • Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin
  • Hilary Spurling, Matisse

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

    • Shortlist:

  • Michael Hofmann, Approximately Nowhere
  • Ted Hughes, Alcestis
  • Don Paterson, The Eyes

    • References

    1999 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
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