Costa Awards for Literature
The Costa Awards were originally known as the Whitbread Prize from 1971 until 2006. Costa Coffee then took over sponsorship of the Awards. These Literature Awards are given in five categories: Best First Novel
Best Novel
Best Biography
Best Poetry
Best Children's Book
What's unique about these Costa Awards is that since 1986 ... a Book of the Year Award has been given to one of the five award winners. In 2006, Stef Penney's novel, The Tenderness of Wolves won Best First Novel. She then received the Book of the Year Award. The Award rules require that the authors must be from the UK or Ireland.
Here is the shortlist for the 2008 Costa Awards for Best Novel and Best First Novel:
Best Novel:
| Author
| Book | Publisher | |
Sebastion Barry
|
The Secret Scripture
|
Faber and Faber
| |
Chris Cleve
|
The Other Hand
|
Sceptre
| |
Louis de Bernieres
|
A Partisan's Daughter
|
Harvill Secker
| |
Patrick McGrath
|
Trauma
|
Bloomsbury
|
Best First Novel: | Author
| Book | Publisher | |
Poppy Adams
|
The Behaviour of Moths
|
Virago Press
| |
Sadie Jones
|
The Outcast
|
Chatto and Windus
| |
Jennie Rooney
|
Inside The Whale
| Chatto and Windus | |
Tom Rob Smith
|
Child 44
| Simon and Schuster |
The winners will be announced in January 2009.
Here are the award winners since 1986 for the Best First Novel and the Book of the Year:Best First Novel | Year | Author | Book | | 2007 | Catherine O'Flynn | What Was Lost | | 2006 | Stef Penney | The Tenderness of Wolves | | 2005 | Tash Aw | The Harmony Silk Factory | | 2004 | Susan Fletcher | Eve Green | | 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | | 2002 | Norman Lebrecht | The Song of Names | | 2001 | Sid Smith | Something Like a House | | 2000 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth | | 1999 | Tim Lott | Windy City Blue | | 1998 | Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland | | 1997 | Pauline Melville | The Ventriloquist's Tale | | 1996 | John Lanchester | A Debt to Pleasure | | 1995 | Kate Atkinson | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | | 1994 | Fred D'Aguiar | The Longest Memory | | 1993 | Rachel Cusk | Saving Agnes | | 1992 | Jeff Torrington | Swing Hammer Swing! | | 1991 | Gordon Burn | Alma Cogan | | 1990 | Hanif Kureishi | The Buddah of Suburbia | | 1989 | James Hamilton-Paterson | Gerontius | | 1988 | Paul Sayer | The Comforts of Madness | | 1987 | Francis Wyndham | The Other Garden | | 1986 | Jim Crace | Continent |
Book of the Year | Year | Author | Book | | 2007 | A. L. Kennedy | Day | | 2006 | Stef Penney | The Tenderness of Wolves | | 2005 | Hilary Spurling | Matisse the Master : A Life of Henri Matisse | | 2004 | Andrea Levy | Small Island | | 2003 | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | | 2002 | Claire Tomalin | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self | | 2001 | Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | | 2000 | Matthew Kneales | English Passengers | | 1999 | Seamus Heaney | Beowulf | | 1998 | Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters | | 1997 | Ted Hughes | Tales of Ovid | | 1996 | Seamus Heaney | The Spirit Level | | 1995 | Kate Atkinson | Behind the Scenes at the Museum | | 1994 | William Trevor | Felicia's Journey | | 1993 | Joan Brady | Theory of War | | 1992 | Jeff Torrington | Swing Hammer Swing! | | 1990 | Nicholas Mosley | Hopeful Monsters | | 1988 | Paul Sayer | The Comfort of Madness | | 1986 | Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World | | 1988 | Paul Sayer | The Comforts of Madness | | 1987 | Francis Wyndham | The Other Garden | | 1986 | Jim Crace | Continent |
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