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06/01/2005
2004 Whitbread winners announced
The winners of the 2004 Whitbread book prize have been announced.
Andrea Levy won for Small Island in the Novel category while outsider Susan Fletcher beat off stiff competition from Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell to win for Eve Green in the First Novel category. John Guy's My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots won in Biography while Michael Symmons Roberts picked up the Poetry award for his collection Corpus. Geraldine McCaughrean won her third Children's Whitbread award for her work Not the End of the World.
Alan Hollinghurst was also short-listed for the Novel prize for his 2004 Booker Prize Winner In The Line of Beauty, but lost out to Andrea Levy's 2004 Orange Prize winner Small Island.
The winners in all five categories picked up stg£5,000 and all will go head to head for the Whitbread Book of the Year prize. The overall winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on January 25th and will receive a cheque for stg£25,000.
Small Island is the early favourite to scoop the prize.
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