1996 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 1996.
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[edit] Book of the Year
[edit] Children's Book
Winner:
- Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch
Shortlist:
- Russell Hoban, The Trokeville Way
- Geraldine McCaughrean, Plundering Paradise
- Philip Pullman, Clockwork or All Wound Up
[edit] First Novel
Winner:
- John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure
Shortlist:
- Seamus Deane, Reading In the Dark
- Georgina Hammick, The Arizona Game
- Mary Morrissy, Mother of Pearl
[edit] Novel
Winner:
- Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself
Shortlist:
- Neil Bartlett, Mr Clive & Mr Page
- J. G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
- Patrick McGrath, Asylum
- Graham Swift, Last Orders
- Fay Weldon, Worst Fears
[edit] Biography
Winners:
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life
Shortlist:
- Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot: A Life
- Flora Fraser, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline
- James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
[edit] Poetry
Winners:
- Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
Shortlist:
- UA Fanthorpe, Safe As Houses
- Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile
- Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
- Pauline Stainer, The Wound-dresser’s Dream
[edit] References
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