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The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. Currently each year winners are chosen in five categories, novel, first novel, children's, poetry, and biography. Each category winner receives £5000. One of the category winenrs is selected as the "Book of the Year" winner and they are given a further £25 000. The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread PLC a leading British leisure and brewing company. The awards are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading.1 Book of the Year Award Winners
- 2003 - Mark Haddon, The Curious Affair of the Dog in the Night-time
- 2002 - Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2001 - Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
- 2000 - Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
- 1999 - Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
- 1998 - Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
- 1997 - Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
- 1996 - Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
- 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja - Kate AtkinsonKate Atkinson ( 1951- ) was born in York and studied English Literature at Dundee University, followed by a doctorate on American Literature. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Book of the Year award. She has also lived in, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an - William TrevorWilliam Trevor (born 24 May 1928) CBE, is a short story writer, novelist and playwright. Born William Trevor Cox in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, Trevor was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He emigrated to England in the 1950s and now lives in De, Felicia’s Journey
- 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. - Joan Brady , Theory of War
- 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi - Jeff Torrington , Swing Hammer Swing!
- 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac - John Richardson , A Life of Picasso
- 1990 - Nicholas Mosley , Hopeful Monsters
- 1989 - Richard Holmes , Coleridge: Early Visions
- 1988 - Paul Sayer , The Comforts of Madness
- 1987 - Christopher Nolan , Under the eye of the clock
- 1986 - Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
- 1985 - Douglas Dunn, Elegies
- 1984 - James Buchan , A Parish of Rich Women
- 1983 - John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
- 1982 - Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill
- 1981 - William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa
- 1980 - David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?
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