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	1985 Whitbread Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 the year 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985_Whitbread_Awards (122 words)

	Qwika - similar:1977_Whitbread_Awards
		The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards.
		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.
	www.qwika.com /rels/1977_Whitbread_Awards (777 words)

	DAWCL Explanation of Awards
		Awarded to: The award is made to the author and illustrator of a children’s book which combines excellence in both text and illustration.
		Awarded to: An outstanding title of fiction or non-fiction published for young adults, defined as 12-18 years, inside or outside the U.S. from the proceeding year January 1 to December 31.
		Awarded to: Awards go to authors for books from ages K-12 (categories are divided by age) for books published anywhere in the world in the given time period.
	www.dawcl.com /awards.html (3361 words)

	Book Awards--Information and URLs
		This biennial award is given to one living author for his or her complete body of works that has been of international importance in children's literature.
		This citation is awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be outstanding that was originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and then translated into English and published in the United States.
		An annual award, named for 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery, that is presented to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States.
	www.tarleton.edu /~cwilterding/awards.htm (2293 words)

	The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	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)

	WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Heaney pips his late friend to award \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		There will be a fifth entrant for the overall title when the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Of The Year prize is awarded later this month.
		The Whitbread awards are now in their 29th year, although the Book Of The Year category was not introduced until 1985.
		Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
	books.guardian.co.uk /specialreports/whitbread/story/0,,119389,00.html (1053 words)

	Whitbread Book Awards
		Founded in 1971 and sponsored by Whitbread Breweries and administered by the Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, the Whitbread Prize is usually considered second only to the Booker in esteem, and by some a more important award.
		There are actually five Whitbread genre prizes each year--best novel, best first novel, best biography, best book of poems, and best children's book--from which one is chosen as Whitbread book of the year.
		Category winners receive £5000; the overall winner, for the Whitbread Book of the Year, receives an additional £25,000, one of the richest of all literary awards.
	facstaff.unca.edu /moseley/whitbread.html (189 words)

	Philip Pullman wins Whitbread Book Award - SFWA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This was the first time in the awards history that a children’s book has won the main prize, worth £25,000 ($35,630.50), since the Whitbread Book of the Year award was introduced in 1985.
		The Awards were established in 1971 by Whitbread, a leading UK leisure company.
		The total prize fund is £50,000: each of the category award winners receives £5,000, and the overall winner receives a further £25,000.
	www.sfwa.org /news/01whit.htm (225 words)

	International Book Awards
		To be eligible for the awards a book must be published in the USA but may be written or illustrated by an author or illustrator of any country.
		The Newbery Award was established in 1922 and is awarded to an (American) children's author who has contributed to children's literature in the preceding year.
		The award was established in 2000 and is awarded to an (American or foreign) author/joint authors, or editorship, who contribute to young adult literature in either fiction, non-fiction, poetry or anthology.
	www.det.wa.edu.au /education/cmis/eval/fiction/awards/aw3.htm (1312 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)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Whitbread awards have been going since 1971, and have been in its current format since 1985.
		The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman's Whitbread Prize-winning novel, may be classed as a children's book and may be about children - but it is aimed at adults as well as young readers, the author says.
		The forty-thousand dollar Whitbread Book of the Year award is open to British and Irish writers only.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2002/01/28/20020128art02.html (1110 words)

	Lehman Brothers - Awards and Recognition - 2001
		The Firm was also awarded IFR's Financial Bond (Subordinated Debt) of the Year for its role as joint-lead manager of CGNU's £1.2 billion hybrid capital issue.
		In addition, Corporate Finance awarded Lehman Brothers the M&A (Demerger) award for 2001 for its advisory role in Morgan Grenfell Private Equity's £1.6 billion purchase of Whitbread Holdings' pubs and bars division.
		For a transaction that Asset Asian Awards called "a psychological breakthrough for Thailand and the rest of emerging Asia," Lehman Brothers was awarded the magazine's Best IPO award for its role in PTT Public Company's $636 million IPO.
	www.lehman.com /who/awards/2001_detail.htm (1162 words)

	whitbreadbookoftheyear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Established in 1971, the Whitbread Book Awards are now in their 30th year.
		The Awards actively promote the enjoyment of reading, working in partnership with amazon.co.uk, CILIP (previously the Library Association), the National Reading Campaign and the Booksellers Association.
		It has already won numerous children’s and teenage fiction awards and was initially entered for the Children’s Book Award as well, but was withdrawn by the publishers in preference to the Novel Award.
	home.comcast.net /~netaylor1/whitbreadbookoftheyear.html (158 words)

	RoaldDahlFans.com - Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is a list of all the awards Roald Dahl won (that I know of), organized by year.
		1978 Wins Nene award (for Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) and Surrey School award (for Danny the Champion of the World).
		1985 Wins Kurt Maschler award runner–up (for The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me) and Boston Globe/Horn Book nonfiction honor citation (for Boy – Tales of Childhood).
	www.roalddahlfans.com /awards.php (281 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Boating For Beginners by Jeanette Winterton
		Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and spent her childhood in Accrington.
		In 1985, she won the Whitbread First Novel Awards for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
		Her second novel, The Passion, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1987, and was followed by Sexing the Cherry, which won the 1989 EM Forster Award.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780749391515 (114 words)

	Lannan Foundation - Literary Awards by Last Name
		A Middleton Fellow at the University of Southern California, he is the recipient of the 2001 PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Award and a 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship.
		Her novel, If I Told You Once, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in the United States and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the United Kingdom.
		She lives in San Francisco and is at Princeton University for the Fall 2005 semester as a Council of the Humanities Fellow.
	www.lannan.org /lf/lit/awards-list/by-last-name/12214 (1005 words)

	Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes
		Awards for nonprint media such as computer software or video for children and young adults are also included.
		Award for a work of historical fiction from a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
		Award to a single volume of poetry published for children in a calendar year.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/awards.htm (1738 words)

	Bookselling This Week: BTW News Briefs
		The Whitbread Book Awards recognize the most enjoyable books of last year by writers based in the United Kingdom and Ireland and were established in 1971 by Whitbread, which bills itself as the U.K.'s leading hospitality business.
		The overall winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year will be selected and announced at the Whitbread Book Awards ceremony in central London on Tuesday, January 24.
		Since the introduction of the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1985, it has been won seven times by a novel, three times by a first novel, four times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry, and once by a children's book.
	news.bookweb.org /news/4004.html (317 words)

	Powell's Books - Award Winners - Whitbread Book of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Whitbread Book of the Year Award celebrates the best of contemporary British writing.
		The Whitbread awards are given annually in five categories — Poetry, Biography, First Novel, Novel, and Children's Literature — to authors who have lived in Great Britain or Ireland for at least three years.
		From these five winners, one book is chosen as the Whitbread Book of the Year.
	www.powells.com /prizes/whitbread.html (450 words)

	Kallaway - Opening minds, changing perspectives (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barclays New Futures: an award scheme to provide opportunities for students to develop vital skills for life, work and citizenship through quality school community projects.
		Sainsbury's Awards for Arts Education, offering £250,000 in awards to arts organisations and schools for innovative arts education programmes.
		Whitbread Book of the Year, one of the country's leading annual literary prizes.
	www.kallaway.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /history.htm (1033 words)

	ACHOCKABLOG: Whitbread Category Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The five Whitbread Book Award winners, each of whom will receive £5,000, were selected from 476 entries, the highest total ever received in one year.
		Since the introduction of the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1985, it has been won seven times by a novel, three times by a first novel, four times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry and just once by a children's book.
		Final judging panel announced for the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards Mother and daughter, actresses Joanna David and Emilia Fox, will join the final judging panel which selects the overall winner of the 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year.
	www.achuka.co.uk /achockablog/archives/002198.html (542 words)

	Jeanette Winterson - AOL Books
		After moving to London, her first novel, 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,' was first published when she was twenty six years old.
		It won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990, which in turn won the BAFTA for Best Drama.
		Jeanette Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards.
	books.aol.com /booklists/product/jeanettewinterson (519 words)

	Which literary awards do you watch for? - Reader's Paradise Forum - GardenWeb
		I know all of these awards are political & some more deserving than others, but I've gotten very good reads out of the winners of all of these prizes.
		As for higher literary awards, sometimes they'll bring the books to my attention, but to tempt me to read it the story must still appeal to me and meet certain criteria of my own before I'll pick it up.
		One of the uses these awards have for me is to bring new books to my attention.
	glyphs.gardenweb.com /forums/load/paradise/msg111059011547.html (1660 words)

	1985 Whitbread Awards (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Male novelists dominate Costa Awards - Times Online
		The shortlists for the renamed Whitbread Awards were today...
		The Costa Awards, which were instituted in 1971 and...
	publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/1/19/1985_whitbread_awards.html (56 words)

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		Which poet was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935, a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1940 and an honorary Lit.D by Pennsylvania University in 1945?
		He also had the street in Harlem on which he lived named after him on his death.
		Which musical was nominated for 9 Laurence Olivier awards — a record — in 2006?
	www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk /documents/Awards.doc (252 words)

	Peter Ackroyd (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eliot (1984), winner of the Whitbread Biography Award and the Heinemann Award, when he was prevented from quoting extensively from Eliot's poetry and unpublished correspondence.
		Peter Ackroyd's published poetry consists of three collections, and he is also the author of works of literary criticism, as well as a book about the history of transvestism.
		Hawksmoor (1985), winner of the duplex Whitbread Novel Prize and of the Guardian Fiction Prize, is anything but the archetypal 'early' novel.
	www.contemporarywriters.com.cob-web.org:8888 /authors/?p=auth148 (2195 words)

	Literary Awards - Contemporary Writers
		This new section allows you to search the database for authors on Contemporary Writers who have been shortlisted for - or have won - some of the most prestigious literary awards and prizes.
		Use the quick 'Search awards' box on the left of this page to search the awards database.
		Please note that some awards have undergone small changes to their titles over the years, thus, for instance, a search simply for 'whitbread' will return more results than a search for 'Whitbread Book of the Year'.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /awards (344 words)

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