Literature
Thursday, 4 January 2001
Whitbread Book of the Year contenders announced
Novelists Matthew Kneale and Zadie Smith have won two of the Whitbread Book Awards, which aim to celebrate and promote contemporary British writing. Matthew Kneale won the Whitbread Novel Award for his fourth work, English Passengers; Zadie Smith was awarded the Whitbread First Novel Award for White Teeth. The other category winners are Lorna Sage, who won the Biography Award, and John Burnside, who received the Poetry Award. All four receive a cash prize of £3,500 sterling; each will compete for a further £22,500 when the Book of the Year winner is announced on January 23 in a ceremony televised on BBC2.
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