1997 Whitbread Awards
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Book of the Year
- Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
Children's Book
Winner:
- Andrew Norriss, Aquila
Shortlist:
- Alan Temperley, Harry and the Wrinklies
- Sharon Creech, Chasing Redbird
- Melvin Burgess, Junk
First Novel
Winner:
- Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist’s Tale
Shortlist:
- Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger
- Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
- Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy
- Eclipse of the Sun, Phil Whitaker
Novel
Winner:
- Jim Crace, Quarantine
Shortlist:
- John Banville, The Untouchable
- Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
- Patrick McGrath, Asylum
- Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
- Geoff Nicholson, Bleeding London
Biography
Winners:
- Graham Robb, Victor Hugo
Shortlist:
- Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
- Kate Summerscale, Queen of Whale Cay
- Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord
- Jenny Uglow, Hogarth, A Life and a World
Poetry
Winners:
- Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
Shortlist:
- Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand
- Selima Hill, Sugar-Paper blue Violet
- Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes
- Peter Redgrove, Assembling a Ghost
Other Whitbread Awards
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