2001 Whitbread Awards

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The 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year Awards was the first year that a book in the children's category was chosen as book of the year.

Book of the Year

Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

Children's Book

Winner:

• Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

Shortlist:

• Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
• Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea
• Terry Jones, The Lady and the Squire

First Novel

Winner:

• Sid Smith, Something Like A House

Shortlist:

• Will Eaves, The Oversight
• Carl Tighe, Burning Worm
• Gerard Woodward, August

Novel

Winner:

• Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues

Shortlist:

• Helen Dunmore, The Siege
• Ian McEwan, Atonement
• Andrew Miller, Oxygen

Biography

Winner:

• Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island

Shortlist:

• Anthony Bailey, A View of Delft
• Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task
• Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life

Poetry

Winner:

• Selima Hill, Bunny

Shortlist

• Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String
• Wendy Cope, If I don't know
• John Stammers, Panoramic Lounge-Bar

 

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