1975 Whitbread Awards
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The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1975.
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[edit] First Book
Winner:
- Ruth Spalding, The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelock
[edit] Novel
Winner:
- William McIlvanney, Docherty
[edit] Autobiography
Winner:
- Helen Corke, In Our Infancy
[edit] Judges
Michael Meyer, Robert Robinson, Claire Tomalin
Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards)
