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  Whitbread Book Awards - The Process, Book of the Year Award Winners
The awards were initially given in four categories (novel, first novel, poetry, and biography) to works by writers who must have been resident in Great Britain or Ireland for at least six months per year for the preceding three years.
The total prize fund is £50 000: each of the category award winners receives £5000, and the overall winner receives a further £25 000.
In 1989, controversy erupted when the judges first awarded the Best Novel prize to Alexander Stuart's The War Zone, then withdrew the prize prior to the ceremony amid acrimony among the judges, ultimately awarding it to Lindsay Clarke's The Chymical Wedding.
encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/23459/Whitbread-Book-Awards.html   (310 words)

  
  Whitbread Book Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread plc, a leading British leisure company.
The awards, 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.
The overall Whitbread book of the year is chosen by a judging panel that comprises five judges from the previous category round and four new ones.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitbread_Awards   (332 words)

  
 Whitbread Book Awards@Everything2.com
The Whitbread Book Awards were established in 1971 by the brewery company Whitbread and administered on its behalf by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
The first awards made in 1971 were made in the three separate award categories, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Whitbread Novel Award and the Whitbread Biography Award.
The Poetry award was dropped in 1972 and replaced with a Whitbread Children's Book Award (known in some years as the Whitbread Children's Novel Award).
everything2.com /?node_id=1877862   (409 words)

  
 WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
The Whitbread Book Awards, established in 1971, aim to celebrate and promote the best of British writing.
The winners of the Awards for Poetry, Biography, Novel and First Novel are selected in each case by a panel of three judges.
The 2002 award for poetry was announced on January 8, 2003.
home.comcast.net /~netaylor1/whitbreadpoetry.html   (51 words)

  
 Ms. Jaffe's 6th Graders
Awarded to: Chapter books and picture books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (through age 14) of especially commendable quality and creativity, and must be published in the United States during the year preceding the Midwinter Meeting.
Awarded to: Author of a children's book of outstanding merit written in English and published first or concurrently in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
Awarded to: Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the "American Dream" for books published in the preceding year.
www.hplibrary.org /kids/booklists/booktalks/jaf.htm   (929 words)

  
 DAWCL Explanation of Awards
Children's award was divided into illustrated and non-illustrated awards in 2001.
Award for 1998 is announced in 1998 for book published in 1998.
The award was made to the author and illustrator of a children’s book which combines excellence in both text and illustration.
www.dawcl.com /awards.html   (2904 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Whitbread Book Awards
The Whitbread Book Awards was established in 1971 and aims to celebrate and promote the best of contemporary British writing.
The four Whitbread Awards are Poetry, Biography, First Novel and Novel, and are each chosen by a three-member judging panel.
The winners of both the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year are chosen by a nine-member judging panel.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/awards/whitbread.phtml   (98 words)

  
 King County Library System - - Answers
Spur Award Best Novel of the West 1990-2006 (awards, award, western, westerns, book, spurs) The Spur Award for Best Novel of the West is presented for works whose inspiration, image, and literary excellence best represent the reality and the spirit of the American West.
Christy Awards for Contemporary Fiction 2000-2006 book award, awards, Christian, Christie) The Christy Awards were established in the spring of 1999, when nearly a dozen Christian publishers confirmed the need for establishing a Christian fiction award to recognize novelists and novels.
The Awards have evolved over the past 35 years and the Costa Book Awards are the only book prize in the UK to use a category system.
www.kcls.org /answers/listQuestions.cfm?method=cat&categoryID=10   (4732 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Ulster   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The British Government and the Catholic Church were involved in an astonishing cover–up to shield a priest suspected of heading an IRA team responsible for one of Northern Ireland's worst bomb atrocities, police said today.
Just months after the July 1972 attack on the village of Claudy, Co Londonderry, which left nine people dead, including three children, it has been alleged that the then Northern Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw and Cardinal William Conway, the Catholic Primate of all–Ireland, discussed the outrage and the activities of the priest.
Mr Kinkaid said a search of 1972 intelligence papers clearly indicated that a parish priest in the south Derry area was a member of the Provisionals and actively involved in terrorism as well as the Claudy bomb.
news.independent.co.uk /uk/ulster/article136837.ece   (1017 words)

  
 Book Reviews by Kids
The Whitbread awards started in 1971 and the first award for a children's novel was given in 1972.
The format changed in 1985 when the Whitbread Book of the Year was launched, and in 1996, children’s books were taken out of the main category and given a prize of their own.
Qualifying books must be written by authors who have been resident in the UK or Eire for three years and whose book has been published between 1 November and 31 October of the year of the prize.
www.bookreviewsbykids.com /whitbread_childrens_book_of_the_year.htm   (270 words)

  
 RoaldDahlFans.com - Awards
This is a list of all the awards Roald Dahl won (that I know of), organized by year.
1972 Wins New England Round Table of Children's Librarians Award (for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
1978 Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award (for Danny the Champion of the World).
www.roalddahlfans.com /awards.php   (281 words)

  
 Whitbread Book Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Winner of the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year for Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin was born in India to an English mother and an Indian father and settled in England at the age of 11, where she completed her schooling and further training as a music student at Trinity College of Music, London.
The Wheel of Surya was the runner-up for the 1993 Guardian's Children's Fiction Award, and Grandpa Chatterji was televised for Channel 4.
In 1996, Hill won the Cambridge University Harper-Wood Award for Literature, in 1997 he was a Wingate Scholar and in 1998 he was London Zoo's inaugural Poet-in-Residence.
www.whitbread-bookawards.co.uk /press.cfm?page=69&id=11   (1757 words)

  
 Abebooks - Carnegie Medal Award Winning Books
The Carnegie Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book for children and young people.
Established by The Library Association in 1936, in memory of the Scottish-born philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, who resolved that "if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries." By the time of his death, Carnegie set up more than 2800 libraries.
The medal is now awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
www.dogbert.abe.com /docs/Community/AwardWinners/carnegieMedal.shtml   (338 words)

  
 The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year
The Whitbread Awards "acknowledge outstanding books of literature not only for the qualities accorded to them by the critics of the day but for popular qualities which make them readable on a wide scale".
The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year is open to books for children of seven and up, written by a British author.
Before 1996, the award was known as the Children's Novel category of the Whitbread Book of the Year.
www.ucalgary.ca /~dkbrown/whitbread.html   (229 words)

  
 Whitbread Book Award Winners | Art & Literature | Pub Quiz Help
To be elegible for a Whitbread book award the author must have been a resident in the UK or Ireland for a period of at least 6 months.
The individual category winners of the 2005 Whitbread book awards were announced on the 4th of January 2006.
The Whitbread book of the Year was announced on the 24th January 2006, where the winner was awarded £25,000 as a prize in addition to the £5,000 awarded previously for winning their category.
www.pubquizhelp.com /art/whitbread_book_awards.html   (578 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novellette, Short Story, and Script.
Lou Arrendale is a member of that lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the awards of medical science.
Part of a small group of high-functioning autistic adults, he has a steady job with a pharmaceutical company, a car, friends, and a passion for fencing.
www.powells.com /prizes/nebula.html   (699 words)

  
 British Guild Of Beer Writers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Events Director for The Brewing Industry International Awards (www.brewingawards.org) which is the foremost international brewing industry event organised in the UK and which was held in 2005 in Munich during the drinktec 2005 World Fair for Beverage Technology.
Awarded the Guild's gold tankard in 2000 and 1998; pewter tankard 1997; Budweiser Budvar travel bursary 2002.
A brewer with Charrington, Whitbread and W.H. Brakspear.
www.beerwriters.co.uk /gui_members.php   (5083 words)

  
 Definition of 1971   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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www.pricex.com /search/1971.html   (266 words)

  
 Velveteen Rabbit Bookshop and Guest House
Click on an award for more information -- including a list of honorees that dates back to the award's inception.
Lambda Literary Awards / Lesbian Poetry / 2006 - 1989
Lambda Literary Awards / Anthologies / Nonfiction / 2005 - 1995
www.velveteenrabbitbookshop.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (777 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Barnes, Julian
In 1981 Metroland was awarded a Somerset Maugham award, given to an outstanding first novel.
The friendship - which is of interest not only because it involves celebrities, but because they are two of the most admired novelists of their generation - was severed.
Another controversy concerns his failure to win the most celebrated awards for fiction in Britain, the Booker Prize or the Whitbread Prize.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=267   (1892 words)

  
 Costa (foremrly Whitbread) Book Awards. Winners. Shortlists. 1971 to present
Kelley as the novel was partly inspired by the premature death of her son, Nathan, from a congenital heart and lung condition.
The Whitbread Book Awards were established in 1971 and encouraged, promoted and celebrated the enjoyment of reading.
NB: The Whitbread Book of the Year was awarded for the first time in 1985 when the format of the Awards was changed.
www.bookawardsonline.com /costa.html   (2624 words)

  
 His Dark Materials and Religion
The last of the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, published in 2001, won, among other awards, both the 2001 Whitbread Prize for Best Children’s book and the Whitbread Best Book of the Year, the only book for young readers ever to have achieved this feat.
In 2003, the His Dark Materials trilogy won third prize in the BBC Big Read Poll, which asked readers to name their favourite English language work of fiction; Pullman’s trilogy was passed only by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
His literary achievements have been acknowledged with many awards, including the 2005 Astrid Lindgrin Memorial Award for Children’s Literature, the most prestigious international award in this field and his being named Commander of the British Empire in 2004.
www.cs.mun.ca /~katem/HDMreligion/pullman.html   (656 words)

  
 Justin Cartwright CV at PFD   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His novel IN EVERY FACE I MEET was shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread Awards in 1995 and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1996.
He has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize twice and the James Tait Black and won a CNA Award.
Justin started as a copywriter in London in 1972 and progressed to making television commercials.
www.pfd.co.uk /clients/cartwrij/f-ftw.html   (240 words)

  
 Gothic Bookshop
Lambda Literary Awards / Humor / 2006 - 1990
Lambda Literary Awards / Drama / 2005 - 1994
Lambda Literary Awards / Transgender / 2006 - 1997
www.gothicbookshop.duke.edu /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (637 words)

  
 WHSmith Literature Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The WHSmith Literary Awards have been in existence since 1959.
This award celebrates the most outstanding contributions to literature by a Commonwealth or UK citizen.
All Literature Awards site contents are copyrighted © 2004 by J M McElligott and may not be published in any form.
www.literature-awards.com /whsmith_literary_awards.htm   (265 words)

  
 Jigfo All Information Listing Available in Jigfo Database
A list of British literary awards: Literature in general Author's Club First Novel Award Betty Trask Award Booker Prize Branford Boase Award British Book Awards -- the "Nibbies" Commonwealth Writers Prize Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards) Duff Cooper Prize Hawthornden Prize H...
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...
www.jigfo.com /index.php?category=biography   (481 words)

  
 The Places You Will Go: Awards
The Quill Awards have announced the nominees for the 19 categories honoured.
If you're wondering about the first name of the author (the Orange prize is awarded to women novelists), Shriver was christened Margaret Ann, but changed her name in her teens.
The book was declared winner of the Whitbread Award Novel category on 6 January.
daphne.blogs.com /books/awards   (1133 words)

  
 Abebooks - Booker Prize Award Winning Books
The Booker Prize for Fiction is one of the world's most famous and prestigious literary prizes.
It is awarded to what the judges deem is the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the U.K., the British Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.
The prize is administered by the National Book League in the U.K. The winner receives £21,000.
abebooks.com /docs/Community/AwardWinners/bookerPrize.shtml?...   (202 words)

  
 AbeBooks - National Book Award Winning Books
The National Book Foundation presents the National Book Award each year in an effort to promote reading and raise funds for literacy programs.
The 2003 award was presented on November 19.
AbeBooks, AbeBooks.com, and "Because You Read" are registered trademarks with the Registered US Patent and Trademark Office.
www.abebooks.com /docs/Community/AwardWinners/nationalBookAward.shtml   (230 words)

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