1995 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 the year 1995.
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[edit] Book of the Year
[edit] Children's Book
Winner:
- Michael Morpurgo, The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Shortlist:
- Elizabeth Arnold, The Parsley Parcel
- Philip Ridley, Kasper in the Glitter
[edit] First Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Stephen Blanchard, Gagarin & I
- Alan Warner, Morvern Callar
[edit] Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Martin Amis, The Information
- Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
[edit] Biography
Winners:
- Roy Jenkins, Gladstone
Shortlist:
- Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Vera Brittain – A Life
- Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
- Geoffrey Wansell, Terence Rattigan
[edit] Poetry
Winner:
- Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder
Shortlist:
- Simon Armitage, The Dead Sea Poems
- Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems
- Glyn Maxwell, Rest for the Wicked
[edit] References
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