And it also happened at the recent Whitbread prizes.
The book has already, and deservedly, won the prestigious Whitbread Prize.
The Whitbread prize brings the winner about $43,000.
Coram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Prize for a children's book.
The book won the Whitbread Prize in 1994.
Trapido has published six novels, three of which have been nominated for the Whitbread Prize.
The book version received the Whitbread Prize for Poetry.
His study of Dalton won him the Whitbread Prize.
His novel, Spies, won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 2002.
They may indeed, as in the case of Christy Nolan, win the Whitbread Prize for literature.