Small Island is Big Winner For whatever reason, the UK’s Whitbread Award tends to honor the favorite much more than other British prizes. Thus 4/5 candidate Andrea Levy claimed the overall prize for SMALL ISLAND, making her the first person to win both the Orange and the Whitbread for the same book. Levy noted in accepting the award: “I’m just happy this money [25,000 pounds] will enable me to write a new book.” Head of the judging panel Sir Trevor McDonald called it, “A brilliantly observed novel of a period of English history that many people seem not to know […]
