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The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland.
Costa Novel Award (formerly Whitbread): A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. Costa Biography Award (formerly Whitbread): The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. Costa Children's Book Award (formerly Whitbread): The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge. Costa Poetry Award: 40 Sonnets by Don Patterson.
Costa Book Awards, series of literary awards given annually to writers resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland for books published there in the previous year. The awards are administered by the British Booksellers Association.
The Costa Book Awards, the only major prize open solely to authors living in the UK and Ireland, are to end after 50 years, organisers say.
The Costa Book Award for Novel, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for novels, as part of the Costa Book Awards. The awards were dissolved in 2022. [1]
Costa Book Awards - Past Winners. The Book Awards were established by Whitbread in 1971 and encouraged, promoted and celebrated the enjoyment of reading. They became the Costa Book Awards in 2006. There are six awards: Novel Award, First Novel Award, Biography Award, Poetry Award and Children’s Book Award winners (£5,000 each)
The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards that recognized and honor British and Irish writers working in English. Each award came with £5,000; the author of the Costa Book of the Year received an additional £30,000.
The Costa is the only prize which places children's books alongside adult books in this way. The Costa Book Awards started life in 1971 as the Whitbread Literary Awards. From 1985 they were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006, when Costa Coffee took over ownership from Whitbread. ...more.
The Costa Book Awards is unique in many ways, not least in having five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book. The winner in each category receives £5,000. One of these five books is selected as the overall winner of the Book of the Year and receives a further £25,000, making a
The Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.