2000 Whitbread Awards

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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 2000.^[1]

Book of the Year[]

Matthew Kneale, English Passengers

Children's Book[]

Winner:

• Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy

Shortlist:

• David Almond, Heaven Eyes
• Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone
• Adéle Geras, Troy

First Novel[]

Winner:

• Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Shortlist:

• Michel Faber, Under the Skin
• , Danny Boy
• Laura Hird, Born Free

Novel[]

Winner:

• Matthew Kneale, English Passengers

Shortlist:

• Jill Dawson, Fred & Edie
• Anne Enright, What Are You Like?
• Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
• Will Self, How the Dead Live

Biography[]

Winner:

• Lorna Sage, Bad Blood: A Memoir

Shortlist:

• Claire Harman, Fanny Burney
• , John Ruskin: The Later Years
• Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936–45 Nemesis

Poetry[]

Winner:

• John Burnside, The Asylum Dance

Shortlist:

• Michael Donaghy, Conjure
• R F Langley, Collected Poems
• Anne Stevenson, Granny Scarecrow
• Maurice Riordan, Floods

References[]

• Previous winners