 Sydney Morning Herald | Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize Guardian Unlimited - The most undeniably solid prose talent left in this year's Whitbread prize stayed the course through a desperately close round of judging and won the £30,000 book of the year award by a whisker for biographer Hilary Spurling. Matisse biography clinches £30,000 Whitbread prize Matisse biographer lands Whitbread Award |