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Tuesday, January 6, 1998 Published at 12:24 GMT
UK
Poet Laureate wins Whitbread award
![image: [ The winners of the Poetry and Novel categories of the prize ]](/olmedia/images/_45054_witb.jpg)
The winners of the Poetry and Novel categories of the prize
The Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes has won his first major award in 30 years.
Tales from Ovid, his interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, won the Whitbread award for poetry.
The accolade for the best novel went to Jim Crace for Quarantine - his work about Jesus Christ.
The overall book of the year will be announced this month.
Jim Crace said: "It doesn't necessarily help to be from a new Commonwealth country, it doesn't necessarily help to be a feminist writer. There doesn't seem to be any rules.
"I think the key to winning a prize of this kind is not to try too hard. It's a false ambition to want to win prizes because they do not denote the best novel of the year.
"There are 20 or 30 really good novels coming out every year. It's just an element of luck which carries you through to the prize.
"I'm very pleased to have that luck on this occasion."
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