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Topic: 1999 Whitbread Awards


  
  Harry Potter Fan Zone | J.K. Rowling Biography
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published on 8 July 1999 to nationwide acclaim and massive press attention, spending its first four weeks at no.1 in the hardback bestseller charts, while Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone simultaneously topped the paperback charts.
J.K. Rowling was voted author of the year at the 1999 British Book Awards (Nibbies) and she recently won BA Author of the Year for the second year running.
She was awarded an OBE for services to children's literature in June 2000.
www.harrypotterfanzone.com /?ID=jkrowling/biography   (710 words)

  
 British Guild Of Beer Writers
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   (5390 words)

  
 Muslim Communities in Europe: Britain
He was awarded an OBE (for Services to Charities and Community Relations) in the 1999 New Years Honours List and a Knighthood in the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for services to the community, charity and community relations.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2002 and a year later, he was awarded Britain's Young Asian Achievers Award by the Institute of Asian Professionals at the Asian Jewels Awards.
He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Stratchlyde in 1999.
www.salaam.co.uk /themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=9   (12289 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
The awards are given on the recommendations of a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama.
The awards for Letters include Fiction, which is listed here, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, and History.
www.powells.com /prizes/pulitzer_fiction.html   (543 words)

  
 Munro's Books : Award Winners
BC Book Prize: Ethel Wilson Fiction Award (British Columbia, Canada)
BC Book Prize: Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence (British Columbia, Canada)
1999 River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola.
www.munrobooks.com /awards.cfm   (539 words)

  
 MuggleNet | The Books
Once again, Rowling writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the next installment.
FCBG Children's Book Award 1999 / Longer Novel Category
This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete.
www.mugglenet.com /books   (2663 words)

  
 The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Related Links - Associations and Publications
The following are links to poetry and poetry-related associations, publishers, organizations, interest groups, awards, sites devoted to specific artists, as well as groups and resources from around the world that we think you will find useful.
Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbread Book of the Year Awards)
PBS interview with National Book Award winner Gerald Stern (1998)
www.griffinpoetryprize.com /links.php   (1028 words)

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