1989 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 the year 1989.
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[edit] Book of the Year
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
[edit] Children's Book
Winner:
- Hugh Scott, Why Weeps the Brogan?
[edit] First Novel
Winner:
- James Hamilton-Paterson, Gerontius
[edit] Novel
Winner:
- Lindsay Clarke, The Chymical Wedding
[edit] Biography
Winners:
- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
[edit] Poetry
Winners:
- Michael Donaghy, Shibboleth
Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)
