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".
An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge.
 It was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1990 and adapted as a movie in 1995.
 The story was inspired by Bainbridge's own experiences working at the Liverpool Playhouse in her youth.
The Dressmaker (US title The Secret Glass) is a gothic psychological novel written by Beryl Bainbridge.
 In 1973, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
 Like many of Bainbridge's earlier works, the novel is semi-autobiographical.
 In particular, the story was inspired by a relationship that she had with a soldier as a teenager.
 The characters of Nellie and Margo were based upon two of her paternal aunts.
The Bottle Factory Outing is a 1974 novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge.
 It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and is regarded as one of her best.
 It is also listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by Robert McCrum of "The Observer".
 The book was inspired by Beryl Bainbridge's own experiences working as a cellar girl in a bottling factory after her divorce in 1959.
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."
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".
Sweet William is a 1975 novel written by Beryl Bainbridge, it was made into a 1980 film of the same name (starring Jenny Agutter and Sam Waterston) for which Bainbridge wrote the screenplay.
Every Man for Himself is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge that was first published in 1996 and is about the 1912 "RMS Titanic" disaster.
 The novel won the 1996 Whitbread Prize, and was a nominee of the Booker Prize.
 It also won the 1997 .
Injury Time is a novel by English author Beryl Bainbridge and first published in 1977 by Duckworth.
 It won the 1977 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
The Dressmaker is a 1988 British drama film directed by Jim O'Brien and starring Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw and Pete Postlethwaite.
 Set during the Second World War in England, the story concerns a claustrophobic relationship between two middle-aged sisters and their fragile 17-year-old niece.
 It is an adaptation of the novel "The Dressmaker" by Beryl Bainbridge.

Question: Did both Beryl Bainbridge and John Banville win Whitbread awards?
Answer: no