1980 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 1980.

Contents 1 Book of the Year 2 Children's Book 3 Novel 4 Biography

[edit] Book of the Year

David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?

[edit] Children's Book

Winner:

• Leon Garfield, John Diamond

[edit] Novel

Winner:

• David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?

[edit] Biography

Winner:

• David Newsome, On the Edge of Paradise: A C Benson the Diarist