2001 Whitbread Awards

The 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year Awards was the first year that a book in the children's category was chosen as book of the year.

Table of contents

1 Book of the Year
2 Children's Book
3 First Novel
4 Novel
5 Biography
6 Poetry
7 Other Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

Philip Pullman , The Amber Spyglass

Children's Book

Winner:

Philip Pullman , The Amber Spyglass

Short List:

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea
Terry Jones, The Lady and the Squire

First Novel

Winner:

Sid Smith, Something Like A House

Will Eaves, The Oversight
Carl Tighe, Burning Worm
Gerard Woodward, August

Novel

Winner:

Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues

Helen Dunmore, The Siege

Ian McEwan, Atonement
Andrew Miller, Oxygen

Biography

Winner:

Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island

Anthony Bailey, A View of Delft
Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task
Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life

Poetry

Winner:

Selima Hill, Bunny

Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String
Wendy Cope, If I don't know
John Stammers, Panoramic Lounge-Bar

Other Whitbread Awards

2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987 - 1986 - 1985 - 1984 - 1983 - 1982 - 1981 - 1980 - 1979 - 1978 - 1977 - 1976 - 1975 - 1974 - 1973 - 1972 - 1971