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2001 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 2001.

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2001 was the first year that a book in the children's category was chosen as book of the year.

Book of the Year

Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

Children's Book

Winner:

  • Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

    • Shortlist:

  • Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
  • Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea
  • Terry Jones, The Lady and the Squire

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Sid Smith, Something Like A House

    • Shortlist:

  • Will Eaves, The Oversight
  • Carl Tighe, Burning Worm
  • Gerard Woodward, August

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues

    • Shortlist:

  • Helen Dunmore, The Siege
  • Ian McEwan, Atonement
  • Andrew Miller, Oxygen

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island

    • Shortlist:

  • Anthony Bailey, A View of Delft
  • Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task
  • Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Selima Hill, Bunny

    • Shortlist :

  • Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String
  • Wendy Cope, If I don't know
  • John Stammers, Panoramic Lounge-Bar

    • References

    2001 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia
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