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The Whitbread prize is a prestigious British literary award. Its
categories include fiction, biography, poetry and children's writing.
David Cairns' "Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness" deservedly won the
biography award on 6 January. Cairns pockets UKP2,000 and his book will
now be considered for Whitbread Book of the Year, worth UKP21,000 and
announced on 25 January.
What the Whitbread judges said:
"The judges had a long and agonized debate between Hilary Spurling's
Matisse and David Cairn's Berlioz. Both captured the eras in which
their subjects lived and worked as well as elegantly relating the
technicalities of their respective crafts. David Cairns' Berlioz wins
this year's Whitbread Biography Award for his masterly evocation of
the inner man as well the outer world in which he lived and worked.
The judges felt that this biography is a work of art in itself which
will still be enjoyed and admired in centuries to come."
What the critics said:
"Reading this new book has been an exhilarating, exciting and moving
experience." The Sunday Times
Judges: Sarah Anderson, The Travel Bookshop; Anthony Holden, biographer;
Jackie Wullschlager, critic
Shortlist, selected from a total of 90 entries:
Nicholas Shakespeare Bruce Chatwin Harvill Press
Hilary Spurling The Unknown Matisse Hamish Hamilton
http://www.whitbread-bookawards.co.uk/
James Kearney
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