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Awards: Who won what in 2000...

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Who Won What in 2000

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Booker
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin (Bloomsbury) - £21,000
Shortlist: Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place (Picador); Michael Collins Keepers of the Truth (Phoenix House); Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans (Faber); Matthew Kneale English Passengers (Hamish Hamilton); Brian O'Doherty The Deposition of Father McGreevy (Arcadia) - £1,000 each.

Whitbread
(1999) Seamus Heaney Beowulf (Faber) - £23,000
Category winners:
Novel Rose Tremain Music and Silence (Chatto)
First Novel Tim Lott White City Blue (Viking)
Biography David Cairns Berlioz: Vol 2 (Allen Lane) - £2,000 each
Children's J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury) - £10,000.

IMPAC Dublin
Nicola Barker Wide Open (Faber) - IR£100,000

Commonwealth
J M Coetzee Disgrace (Secker) - £10,000
Best First Book Jeffrey Moore Prisoner in a Rose-Red Chain (Thistledown Press, Canada) - £3,000.

Orange
Linda Grant When I Lived in Modern Times (Granta) - £30,000.

Samuel Johnson
David Cairns Berlioz: Vol 2 (Allen Lane) - £30,000.

Society of Authors:
Betty Trask
Jonathan Tulloch The Season Ticket (Cape) - £10,000; Julia Leigh The Hunter (Faber) - £7,000; Susan Elderkin Sunset over Chocolate Mountains (Fourth Estate) - £4,000; Galaxy Craze By the Shore (Cape), Nicholas Griffin The Requiem Shark (Little, Brown) - £2,000 each.
Somerset Maugham
Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons (HarperCollins); Sarah Waters Affinity (Virago) - £6,000
Cholmondeley
Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti - £2,000 each
Eric Gregory
Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland - £6,000 each; Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard - £4,000 each
McKitterick
Chris Dolan Ascension Day (Review) - £4,000 Sagittarius David Crackanthorpe Stolen Marches (Review) - £2,000.

Aventis General
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe (Cape)
Junior Peter Bond DK Guide to Space (Dorling Kindersley) - £10,000 each.

Encore
John Burnside The Mercy Boys (Cape); Claire Messud The Last Life (Picador); Matt Thorne Eight Minutes Idle (Sceptre); Phil Whitaker Triangulation (Phoenix House) - share of £10,000.

Guardian
Zadie Smith White Teeth (Hamish Hamilton) - £10,000.

W H Smith
Melvyn Bragg The Soldier's Return (Sceptre) - £10,000.

Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph
Jason Elliot An Unexpected Light (Picador) - £7,500.

Forward
Michael Donaghy Conjure (Picador) - £10,000.

Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys
David Mitchell Ghostwritten (Sceptre).

T S Eliot
Hugo Williams Billy's Rain (Faber) - £5,000.

William Hill
Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins It's Not about the Bike (Yellow Jersey) - £10,000 and £1,000 free bet.

Kraszna-Krausz
James Naremore More Than Night (California); R W Burns An International History of the Formative Years (Institution of Electrical Engineers) - £5,000 each.

Glenfiddich Food Book
Sally Clarke Sally Clarke's Book (Macmillan)
Drink Book
Stephen Brook The Wines of California (Faber).

W H Smith Thumping Good Read
Boris Starling Storm (HarperCollins) - £5,000.

British Book Awards:
Author of the Year J K Rowling
Book of the Year Alex Ferguson Managing My Life (Hodder)
Publisher of the Year Bloomsbury.

BA/Whitaker Author of the Year
J K Rowling

Smarties: under 5
Bob Graham Max (Walker)
six to eight Jacqueline Wilson Lizzie Zipmouth (Young Corgi)
nine to 11 William Nicholson The Wind Singer (Mammoth) - £2,500 each.

Carnegie
Aidan Chambers Postcards from No Man's Land (Bodley Head) - gold medal and £1,000 worth of books to donate
Kate Greenaway
Helen Oxenbury Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Walker) - gold medal and £1,000 worth of books to donate.

Blue Peter
Geraldine McCaughrean The Pilgrim's Progress (Hodder)

Diagram Odd Title
High Performance Stiffened Structures (Professional Engineering Publishing)

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