Neha Patil (Editor)

1973 Whitbread Awards

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit

The Whitbread Awards (1971–2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1973.

Contents

Children's Book

Winner:

  • Alan Aldridge, illustrator, and William Plomer, poet, The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
  • Plomer adapted an 1802 poem by William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.

    Novel

    Winner:

  • Shiva Naipaul, The Chip-Chip Gatherers
  • Biography

    Winner:

  • John Wilson, CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  • References

    1973 Whitbread Awards Wikipedia