1993 Whitbread Awards

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 1993.

Book of the Year

Joan Brady, Theory of War

Children's Book

Winner:

• Anne Fine, Flour Babies

First Novel

Winner:

• Rachel Cusk, Saving Agnes

Novel

Winner:

• Joan Brady, Theory of War

Biography

Winners:

• Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life

Poetry

Winners:

• Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time

References

• Previous winners