1997 Whitbread Awards

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Book of the Year

Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

Children's Book

Winner:

• Andrew Norriss, Aquila

Shortlist:

• Alan Temperley, Harry and the Wrinklies
• Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird
• Melvin Burgess, Junk

First Novel

Winner:

• Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist’s Tale

Shortlist:

• Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger
• Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
• Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy
• Eclipse of the Sun, Phil Whitaker

Novel

Winner:

• Jim Crace, Quarantine

Shortlist:

• John Banville, The Untouchable
• Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
• Patrick McGrath, Asylum
• Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
• Geoff Nicholson, Bleeding London

Biography

Winners:

• Graham Robb, Victor Hugo

Shortlist:

• Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
• Kate Summerscale, Queen of Whale Cay
• Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord
• Jenny Uglow, Hogarth, A Life and a World

Poetry

Winners:

• Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

Shortlist:

• Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand
• Selima Hill, Sugar-Paper blue Violet
• Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
• Peter Redgrove, Assembling a Ghost

 

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