1999 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 1999.
Book of the Year
- Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
Children's Book
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Carol Ann Duffy, Meeting Midnight
- Michael Morpurgo, Kensuke's Kingdom
- Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum
First Novel
Winner:
- Tim Lott, White City Blue
Shortlist:
- Suzanne Cleminshaw, The Great Ideas
- Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
- Francine Stock, A Foreign Country
Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Jim Crace, Being Dead
- Michael Frayn, Headlong
- Joanne Harris, Chocolat
Biography
Winner:
- David Cairns, Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness
Shortlist:
- Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin
- Hilary Spurling, Matisse
Poetry
Winner:
- Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
Shortlist:
- Michael Hofmann, Approximately Nowhere
- Ted Hughes, Alcestis
- Don Paterson, The Eyes
References
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