1985 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 1985.

Book of the Year

Douglas Dunn, Elegies

Children's Book

Winner:

Janni Howker, The Nature of the Beast

First Novel

Winner:

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Novel

Winner:

Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

Biography

Winners:

Ben Pimlott, Hugh Dalton

Poetry

Winners:

Douglas Dunn, Elegies

References

Previous winners

Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)

1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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