1997 Whitbread Awards

Book of the Year

:Ted Hughes, "Tales from Ovid"

Children's Book

Winner:
*Andrew Norriss, "Aquila"Shortlist:
*Alan Temperley, "Harry and the Wrinklies"
*Sharon Creech, "Chasing Redbird"
*Melvin Burgess, "Junk"

First Novel

Winner:
*Pauline Melville, "The Ventriloquist’s Tale"Shortlist:
*Anne Haverty, "One Day as a Tiger"
*Mick Jackson, "The Underground Man"
*Ardashir Vakil, "Beach Boy"
*Eclipse of the Sun, "Phil Whitaker"

Novel

Winner:
*Jim Crace, "Quarantine"Shortlist:
*John Banville, "The Untouchable"
*Bernard MacLaverty, "Grace Notes"
*Patrick McGrath, "Asylum"
*Ian McEwan, "Enduring Love"
*Geoff Nicholson, "Bleeding London"

Biography

Winners:
*Graham Robb, "Victor Hugo"Shortlist:
*Jessica Douglas-Home, "Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse"
*Kate Summerscale, "Queen of Whale Cay"
*Stella Tillyard, "Citizen Lord"
*Jenny Uglow, "Hogarth, A Life and a World"

Poetry

Winners:
*Ted Hughes, "Tales from Ovid"Shortlist:
*Simon Armitage, "CloudCuckooLand"
*Selima Hill, "Sugar-Paper blue Violet"
*Christopher Reid, "Expanded Universes"
*Peter Redgrove, "Assembling a Ghost"