Did both Beryl Bainbridge and John Banville win Whitbread awards?
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Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". In 2008, "The Times" named Bainbridge on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
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John Barnes (musician) John Barnes (born 15 May 1932) is an English-born jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who played New Orleans-styled jazz in his early career, but later also played saxophones in the mainstream style.
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Jocelyn Barrow Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow, Mrs Downer, DBE (born 15 April 1929) is the Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She was the first black woman to be a governor of the BBC and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council.
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Laetitia Matilda Hawkins Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (baptized 8 August 1759 – 22 November 1835) was an English novelist, associated with Twickenham. She is a character in Beryl Bainbridge's novel "According to Queeney".
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Winsome Pinnock Winsome Pinnock (born 1961) is an award-winning British playwright of Jamaican heritage, who is "probably Britain's most well known black female playwright".
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Jenny Bristow Jennifer Ann Bristow BEM is a Northern Irish cook and cookery writer. She is best known for her cookery television series produced by UTV.
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John Bancroft (businessman) John Bancroft MBE is an English businessman, based in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. He was awarded a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire as part of Queen Elizabeth's 2013 Birthday Honours for his services to business in Nottinghamshire.
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Julia George Julia Charlotte George (née Botfield; born 1972), also known as "Jules" Botfield, is a reporter for the BBC Breakfast television news programme. She married in August 2006, and lives in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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Angus Wilson Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for "The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot" and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.
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John Baskeyfield John "Jack" Daniel Baskeyfield VC (18 November 1922 – 20 September 1944) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.
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Brian Johnston Brian Alexander Johnston CBE, MC (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), affectionately known as Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994.
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Harriet Said... Harriet Said... was the first novel written by Beryl Bainbridge, based on newspaper reports the Parker–Hulme murder case in New Zealand which involved two young girls.
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Alice Burville Alice Julia Burville (11 July 1856 – 4 July 1944) was an English soprano and actress, best known for her performances in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and other operettas in the 1870s and 1880s.
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John Banting John Banting (12 May 1902 – 30 January 1972) was an English artist and writer.
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Brian Glanville Brian Lester Glanville (born 24 September 1931) is an English football writer and novelist.
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Myrna Bain Myrna Bain (November 27, 1939 – April 12, 2007) born Myrna Delores Bain, was an activist, grass-roots organizer, scholar and writer. She was an influential member of several organizations founded by LGBTI women of color, most notably: The Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (with Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gusset). Bain was also a renowned professor of Black Studies for the City University of New York for several decades (at Hunter College, John Jay College and New York Institute of Technology). The Myrna Bain Scholarship at John Jay College is dedicated to her memory.
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2013 Costa Book Awards The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread 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 2013.
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Aubrey Singer Aubrey Edward Singer CBE (21 January 1927 – 26 May 2007) was a British broadcasting executive who spent most of his career at the BBC. He has been described as ""the greatest director general that the BBC never had"".
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Young Shoulders Young Shoulders is a 1982 novel by John Wain. It portrays incompatibility in a marital relationship and how such a flawed marriage affects the children born out of it. It won the 1982 Whitbread Prize.
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Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (30 May 1913 – 27 March 2004) was a stockbroker and member of the British peerage. In 1965, he became the sixth Baron Sackville.
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Johnny Edgecombe John Arthur Alexander "Johnny" Edgecombe (22 October 1932 – 26 September 2010) was a British jazz promoter, whose