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2000 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 2000.

Contents

Book of the Year

Matthew Kneale, English Passengers

Children's Book

Winner:

  • Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy

    • Shortlist:

  • David Almond, Heaven Eyes
  • Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone
  • Adéle Geras, Troy

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Zadie Smith, White Teeth

    • Shortlist:

  • Michel Faber, Under the Skin
  • Jo-Ann Goodwin, Danny Boy
  • Laura Hird, Born Free

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Matthew Kneale, English Passengers

    • Shortlist:

  • Jill Dawson, Fred & Edie
  • Anne Enright, What Are You Like?
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
  • Will Self, How the Dead Live

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • Lorna Sage, Bad Blood: A Memoir

    • Shortlist:

  • Claire Harman, Fanny Burney
  • Tim Hilton, John Ruskin: The Later Years
  • Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936–45 Nemesis

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • John Burnside, The Asylum Dance

    • Shortlist:

  • Michael Donaghy, Conjure
  • R F Langley, Collected Poems
  • Anne Stevenson, Granny Scarecrow
  • Maurice Riordan, Floods

    • References

    2000 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
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