2004 Whitbread Awards
Encyclopedia
Dates
- Thursday 6 January 2005 - Award winners announced in all five categories
- Tuesday 25 January 2005 - Announcement of the Whitbread Book of the Year
Children's Book
Winner:- Geraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
, Not the End of the World
Shortlist:
- Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJLooking for JJLooking for JJ is a novel by Anne Cassidy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Book Award and winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2004.-Plot introduction:...
- Geraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
, Not the End of the World - Meg RosoffMeg RosoffMeg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...
- How I Live NowHow I Live NowHow I Live Now is a novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2004. The book won three notable awards including the Michael L. Printz Award and received generally positive reviews.-Plot summary:... - Ann TurnbullAnn TurnbullAnn Turnbull is a British writer of fiction for children and young adults. Her work includes picture books as well as novels. Many of her novels are set in Shropshire, the English county where she lives...
- No Shame, No FearNo Shame, No FearNo Shame, No Fear is a 2003 novel for young adults by Ann Turnbull. Set in Shropshire in the 1660s, the novel depicts the love between a Quaker girl, Susanna, and Will, the son of a rich merchant...
First Novel
Winner:- Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
Shortlist:
- Susanna ClarkeSusanna ClarkeSusanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...
, Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellJonathan Strange & Mr NorrellJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and... - Richard Collins, The Land as Viewed from the Sea
- Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
- Panos KarnezisPanos KarnezisPanagiotis Karnezis is a Greek writer. Born in Greece in 1967, he moved to England in 1992 to study Engineering. He was later awarded a M.A. in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. His first collection of stories, Little Infamies, was published in 2002...
, The MazeThe Maze (2004)The Maze is a novel published by the Greek writer Panos Karnezis in 2002. The book is the story of the odyssey of a Greek army brigade in Anatolia trying to make their way back home.The Maze was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award....
Novel
Winner:- Andrea LevyAndrea LevyAndrea Levy is a British author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.-Identity and writings:...
, Small IslandSmall IslandSmall Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two episodes by the BBC in 2009....
Shortlist:
- Kate AtkinsonKate AtkinsonKate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...
, Case HistoriesCase HistoriesCase Histories is a 2004 detective novel by Kate Atkinson set in Cambridge, England. It introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector and now private investigator... - Louis de BernièresLouis de BernièresLouis de Bernières is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine...
, Birds Without WingsBirds Without Wings (novel)Birds Without Wings is a novel by Louis de Bernières, written in 2004. Narrated by various characters, it tells the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim. It also chronicles the rise of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the 'Father of the Turkish Nation'... - Alan HollinghurstAlan HollinghurstAlan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...
, The Line of BeautyThe Line of BeautyThe Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.-Plot introduction:Set in Britain in the early to mid-1980s, the story surrounds the post-Oxford life of the young gay protagonist, Nick Guest.... - Andrea LevyAndrea LevyAndrea Levy is a British author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.-Identity and writings:...
, Small IslandSmall IslandSmall Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two episodes by the BBC in 2009....
Biography
Winner:- John GuyJohn Guy (historian)John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...
, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
Shortlist:
- John GuyJohn Guy (historian)John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...
, My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots - David McKieDavid McKieDavid McKie is a British journalist and historian. He was deputy editor of The Guardian and continued to write a weekly column for that paper until 4 October 2007, with the byline "Elsewhere". Until 10 September 2005, he also wrote a second weekly column, under the pseudonym "Smallweed"...
, Jabez - The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue - John SutherlandJohn SutherlandJohn Andrew Sutherland is an English academic, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author.John Sutherland is now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. After graduating from the University of Leicester in 1964, he began his academic...
, Stephen Spender - Jeremy TreglownJeremy TreglownJeremy Treglown is a British author and literary critic, who has written biographies of Roald Dahl, Henry Green and V.S. Pritchett. He is Professor of English at the University of Warwick....
, V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life
Poetry
Winner:- Michael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape , and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize twice, the Griffin International...
, Corpus
Shortlist:
- Leontia FlynnLeontia FlynnLeontia Flynn is an Irish poet born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Flynn grew up in Ballyloughlin, south County Down, between the towns of Newcastle and Dundrum, very close to the well known Murlough Nature Reserve...
, These Days - John FullerJohn Fuller (poet)John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...
, Ghosts - Matthew Hollis, Ground Water
- Michael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape , and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize twice, the Griffin International...
, Corpus