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- Three of the 2000 Award winners appear in the top 50 of the Paperback Fastsellers of 2001 (The Bookseller, 4 January 2002). White Teeth by Zadie Smith is at number 4, Bad Blood by Lorna Sage is at number 35 and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale is at 49.
- The only book prize that Roald Dahl ever won was the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award in 1983, for The Witches.
- The prize money fund increased this year to a total of £50,000. Each category winner will receive £5,000 with the Book of the Year winner receiving a cheque for £25,000.
- One of the young judges in 2000, 12 year old Adam Usden, subsequently appeared on Radio 4 in the main part of Gerry in the BBC’s adaptation of Gerald Durrell’s autobiography, My Family and Other Animals.
- Several Whitbread-shortlisted and winning books have been turned into highly successful films or television series including:
- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette
Winterson
- The Oscar-nominated Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- Aquila by Andrew Norriss
- Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
- And, of course, Harry Potter.
Check out this site every couple of weeks to see more interesting facts from the Whitbread Book Awards!
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