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10/11/2004
Whitbread shortlists announced
The 2004 Whitbread Book Awards shortlists have been announced, among the nominees are winners of the Booker and Orange Prize.
Alan Hollinghurst, this years Man Booker winner is nominated for the Whitbread Novel Award for his book The Line of Beauty. Former Whitbread winner Kate Atkinson (Case Histories), Louis de Bernières (Birds Without Wings) and Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy (Small Island) are also nominated for the Novel Award.
Susanna Clarke, whose acclaimed book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, has been nominated for the First Novel with Richard Collins (The Land as Viewed from the Sea), Susan Fletcher (Eve Green) and Panos Karnezis (The Maze).
The nominees for the Childrens Book Award are: Anne Cassidy (Looking for JJ), Geraldine McCaughrean (Not the End of the World), Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now) and Ann Turnbull (No Shame, No Fear).
Belfast-born Leontia Flynn is nominated for the Whitbread Poetry Award for These Days, and is joined on the shortlist by John Fuller (Ghosts), Matthew Hollis (Ground Water) and Michael Symmons Roberts (Corpus).
The nominees for the Biography Award are: John Guy (My Heart is my Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots), David McKie (Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue), John Sutherland (Stephen Spender) and Jeremy Treglown (VS Pritchett: A Life).
The winners of each of the five categories will be announced on 6th January 2005 and they will each receive £5,000. The overall winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year will be announced at a ceremony in London on 25 January 2005 and will receive £25,000.
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