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Also Known As

Whitbread Literary Awards • Whitbread Book Awards

Notable Honorees

Paul Theroux • Salman Rushdie • Ted Hughes • J.K. Rowling • James Fenton • Roald Dahl • Zadie Smith • Kate Atkinson • Philip Pullman • Ian McEwan • Andrew Motion • Carol Ann Duffy • Kazuo Ishiguro • Iris Murdoch • David Lodge • Seamus Heaney • Douglas Dunn • William Trevor • Penelope Lively • Roy Jenkins • Peter Ackroyd • William Plomer • Rose Tremain • Russell Hoban • Jeanette Winterson • Rumer Godden • Nicholas Mosley • Beryl Bainbridge • John Wain • Paul Durcan • A.N. Wilson • Tony Harrison • Alasdair Gray • Michael Frayn • Jennifer Johnston • Christopher Logue • Bruce Chatwin • Peter Porter • Penelope Mortimer

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English literature novel biography poetry Booker Prize Women’s Prize for Fiction Governor General’s Literary Awards Commonwealth Book Prize Crossword Book Awards National Book Awards Frost Medal Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Bollingen Prize Prix Goncourt

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Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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A Study of Poetry