2000 Whitbread Awards

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.

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

• Previous winners