2000 Whitbread Awards
The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in 2000.
Book of the Year
Children's Book
Winner:
Shortlist:
- David Almond, Heaven Eyes
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone
- Adéle Geras, Troy
First Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Michel Faber, Under the Skin
- Jo-Ann Goodwin, Danny Boy
- Laura Hird, Born Free
Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Jill Dawson, Fred & Edie
- Anne Enright, What Are You Like?
- Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
- Will Self, How the Dead Live
Biography
Winner:
- Lorna Sage, Bad Blood: A Memoir
Shortlist:
- Claire Harman, Fanny Burney
- Tim Hilton, John Ruskin: The Later Years
- Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936–45 Nemesis
Poetry
Winner:
- John Burnside, The Asylum Dance
Shortlist:
- Michael Donaghy, Conjure
- R F Langley, Collected Poems
- Anne Stevenson, Granny Scarecrow
- Maurice Riordan, Floods
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