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The Whitread Book Awards are among the United
Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. Currently each year winners are chosen in five categories, novel, first novel,
children's, poetry, and biography. Each category winner receives £5000. One of the category winenrs is selected as the "Book of
the Year" winner and they are given a further £25 000. The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread PLC a leading British leisure
and brewing company. The awards are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading.
Book of the Year Award Winners
- 2003 - Mark Haddon, The Curious
Affair of the Dog in the Night-time
- 2002 - Claire Tomalin,
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2001 - Philip Pullman,
The Amber Spyglass
- 2000 - Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
- 1999 - Seamus Heaney,
Beowulf
- 1998 - Ted Hughes, Birthday
Letters
- 1997 - Ted Hughes, Tales from
Ovid
- 1996 - Seamus Heaney, The
Spirit Level
- 1995 - Kate Atkinson,
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- 1994 - William Trevor,
Felicia’s Journey
- 1993 - Joan Brady, Theory of War
- 1992 - Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
- 1991 - John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
- 1990 - Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
- 1989 - Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
- 1988 - Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness
- 1987 - Christopher Nolan, Under the eye of the clock
- 1986 - Kazuo Ishiguro, An
Artist of the Floating World
- 1985 - Douglas Dunn,
Elegies
- 1984 - James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women
- 1983 - John Fuller, Flying to
Nowhere
- 1982 - Bruce Chatwin, On
the Black Hill
- 1981 - William Boyd, A Good
Man in Africa
- 1980 - David Lodge, How Far Can
You Go?
Complete Winners and Nominees:
2003 -
2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987 - 1986 - 1985 - 1984 - 1983 - 1982 - 1981 - 1980 - 1979 - 1978 - 1977 - 1976 - 1975 - 1974 - 1973 - 1972 - 1971
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