1987 Whitbread Awards
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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 the year 1987.
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[edit] Book of the Year
- Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
[edit] Children's Book
Winner:
- Geraldine McCaughrean, A Little Lower than the Angels
[edit] First Novel
Winner:
- Francis Wyndham, The Other Garden
[edit] Novel
Winner:
- Ian McEwan, The Child in Time
[edit] Biography
Winners:
- Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
[edit] Poetry
Winners:
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern
Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)
