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Whitbread Award
20 years tracked (1981–2005), 42 entries total.
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1981
2005
The Accidental
Ali Smith · Novel
Winner
The New Policeman
Kate Thompson · Children's Book
Winner
2004
Eve Green
Susan Fletcher · First Novel
Winner
Small Island
Andrea Levy · Novel and Book of the Year
Winner
2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · Novel and Book of the Year
Winner
2002
Saffy's Angel
Hilary McKay · Children's Book
Winner
Spies
Michael Frayn · Novel
Winner
The Story of Lucy Gault
William Trevor · Novel
Nominee
2001
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman · Children's Book of the Year and Book of the Year
Winner
Atonement
Ian McEwan · Novel
Nominee
The Siege
Helen Dunmore · Novel
Nominee
2000
Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin · Children's Book of the Year
Winner
English Passengers
Matthew Kneale · Novel and Book of the Year
Winner
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · First Novel
Winner
How the Dead Live
Will Self · Novel
Nominee
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro · Novel
Nominee
1999
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling · Children's Book of the Year
Winner
Being Dead
Jim Crace · Novel
Nominee
Chocolat
Joanne Harris · Novel
Nominee
1998
Birthday Letters
Ted Hughes · Poetry and Book of the Year
Winner
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
Amanda Foreman · Biography
Winner
Skellig
David Almond · Children's Book of the Year
Winner
1997
Quarantine
Jim Crace · Novel
Winner
The Untouchable
John Banville · Novel
Nominee
1996
Asylum
McGrath, Patrick · Novel
Nominee
Clockwork
Philip Pullman · Children's Book
Nominee
Last Orders
Graham Swift · Novel
Nominee
1995
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson · First Novel and Book of the Year
Winner
The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie · Novel
Winner
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Michael Morpurgo · Children's Novel
Winner
The Information
Martin Amis · Novel
Nominee
The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro · Novel
Nominee
1994
The Longest Memory
Fred D'Aguiar · First Novel
Winner
1990
The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi · First Novel
Winner
1988
The comforts of madness
Paul Sayer · First Novel and Book of the Year
Winner
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie · Novel
Winner
1987
The Child in Time
Ian McEwan
Winner
1986
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro · Novel and Book of the Year
Winner
1985
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson · First Novel
Winner
1983
The Witches
Roald Dahl · Children's Novel
Winner
1982
On The Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin · First Novel
Winner
1981
A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd · First Novel
Winner
