Costa Book Award
The Costa Book Award , previously the 2006 Whitbread Book Award , is a British literary prize that has been awarded since 1971. It is sponsored by the café chain Costa Coffee , which is part of the Whitbread group.
Modalities
The prize is awarded annually in five categories:
- First novel
- novel
- Poetry
- biography
- Children's book
Also each few days later addition since 1985 of the winners of these categories Book of the Year (dt. Book of the Year named).
Each category award is endowed with 5,000 pounds , the book of the year an additional 30,000 pounds.
Award winners
Whitbread Book Award winner
1971 to 1980
1971:
- Novel: The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles
- Poetry: Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill
- Biography: Henrik Ibsen from Michael Meyer
1972:
- Novel: The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
- Biography: Trollope by James Pope-Hennessy
- Children's book: The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden
1973:
- Novel: The Chip Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul
- Biography: CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman by John Wilson
- Children's book: The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge (illustr.) And William Plomer (text)
1974:
- Novel: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
- Biography: Poor Dear Brendan by Andrew Boyle
- Children's book:
- How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban (text) and Quentin Blake (illustr.)
- The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh
- First Book: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
1975:
- Novel: Docherty by William McIlvanney
- Biography: In Our Infancy by Helen Corke
- First Book: The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelock by Ruth Spalding
1976:
- Novel: The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
- Biography: Elizabeth Gaskell by Winifred Gerin
- Children's book: A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
1977:
- Novel: Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
- Biography: Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson
- Children's book: No End to Yesterday by Shelagh Macdonald
1978:
- Novel: Picture Palace by Paul Theroux
- Biography: Lloyd George : The People's Champion by John Grigg
- Children's book: The Battle of Bubble and Squeak by Philippa Pearce
1979:
- Novel: The Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
- Biography: About Time by Penelope Mortimer
- Children's book: Tulku by Peter Dickinson
1980:
- Roman: How Far Can You Go? (dt. Hands off ) by David Lodge
- Biography: On the Edge of Paradise: AC Benson the Diarist by David Newsome
- Children's book: John Diamond by Leon Garfield
1981 to 1990
1981:
- First novel: A Good Man in Africa (Eng. Our man in Africa ) by William Boyd
- Roman: Silver's City by Maurice Leitch
- Biography: Monty: The Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton
- Children's book: The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam
1982:
- First novel: On the Black Hill (dt. On Black Mountain ) by Bruce Chatwin
- Novel: Young Shoulders by John Wain
- Biography: Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw
- Children's book: The Song of Pentecost by WJ Corbett
1983:
- First novel: Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
- Novel: Fools of Fortune (German gates of luck ) by William Trevor
- Biography:
- Vita of Victoria Glendinning
- King George V by Kenneth Rose
- Children's book: The Witches (dt. Witches witches ) by Roald Dahl
1984:
- First novel : A Parish of Rich Women by James Buchan
- Novel: Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope
- Short Story: Tomorrow is our Permanent Address by Diane Rowe
- Biography: TS Eliot by Peter Ackroyd
- Children's book: The Queen of the Pharisees' Children by Barbara Willard
1985:
- First novel: Oranges are not the only fruit (Eng. Oranges are not the only fruit ) by Jeanette Winterson
- Novel: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
- Poetry: Elegies by Douglas Dunn - Book of the Year
- Biography: Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott
- Children's book: The Nature of the Beast by Janni Howker
1986:
- First novel: Continent by Jim Crace
- Novel: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - Book of the Year
- Poetry: Stet by Peter Reading
- Biography: Gilbert White by Richard Mabey
- Children's book: The Coal House by Andrew Taylor
1987:
- First novel: The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham
- Roman: The Child in Time (dt. A child at the time ) by Ian McEwan
- Poetry: The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
- Biography: Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan - Book of the Year
- Children's book: A Little Lower than the Angels (German Gabriel and the Masters Player ) by Geraldine McCaughrean
1988:
- First novel: The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer - Book of the Year
- Novel: The Satanic Verses (Eng. The Satanic Verses ) by Salman Rushdie
- Poetry: The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter
- Biography: Tolstoy from AN Wilson
- Children's book: Awaiting Developments by Judy Allen
1989:
- First novel: Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson
- Novel: The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke
- Poetry: Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy
- Biography: Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes - Book of the Year
- Children's book: Why Weeps the Brogan? by Hugh Scott
1990:
- First novel: The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
- Novel: Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley - Book of the Year
- Lyrics: Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan
- Biography: AA Milne : His Life by Ann Thwaite
- Children's book: AK by Peter Dickinson
1991 to 2000
1991
- First novel: Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn
- Novel: The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
- Lyric: Gorse Fires by Michael Longley
- Biography: A Life of Picasso by John Richardson - Book of the Year
- Children's book: Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry
1992:
- First novel: Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington - Book of the Year
- Novel: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
- Poetry: The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison
- Biography: Trollope by Victoria Glendinning
- Children's book: The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross
1993:
- First novel: Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
- Novel: Theory of War by Joan Brady - Book of the Year
- Lyrics: Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
- Biography: Philip Larkin : A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion
- Children's book: Flour Babies (Eng. The Baby Project ) by Anne Fine
1994:
- First novel: The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar
- Novel: Felicia's Journey by William Trevor - Book of the Year
- Poetry: Out of Danger by James Fenton
- Biography: DH Lawrence : The Married Man by Brenda Maddox
- Children's book: Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean
1995:
- First novel: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson - Book of the Year
- Novel: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
- Poetry: Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue
- Biography: Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
- Children's book: The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
1996:
- First novel: The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
- Novel: Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
- Poetry: The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney - Book of the Year
- Biography: Thomas Cranmer : A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Children's book: The Tulip Touch (German Typically Tulipa ) by Anne Fine
1997:
- First novel: The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
- Novel: Quarantine by Jim Crace
- Poetry: Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes - Book of the Year
- Biography: Victor Hugo by Graham Robb
- Children's book: Aquila by Andrew Norriss
1998:
- First novel: The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
- Novel: Leading the Cheers by Justin Cartwright
- Poetry: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes - Book of the Year
- Biography: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
- Children's book: Skellig (German time of the moon ) by David Almond
1999:
- First novel: White City Blue by Tim Lott
- Roman: Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
- Poetry: Beowulf : A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney - Book of the Year
- Biography: Berlioz , Volume 2 by David Cairns
- Children's book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (German Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ) by JK Rowling
2000:
- First novel: White Teeth by Zadie Smith - Book of the Year
- Novel: English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
- Poetry: The Asylum Dance by John Burnside
- Biography: Bad Blood, A Memoir by Lorna Sage
- Children's book: Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
2001 to 2005
2001:
- First novel: Something Like a House by Sid Smith
- Roman: Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
- Poetry: Bunny by Selima Hill
- Biography: Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami
- Children's Book: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Volume 3 of His Dark Materials ) - Book of the Year
2002:
- First novel: The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
- Roman: Spies by Michael Frayn
- Poetry: The Ice Age by Paul Farley
- Biography: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin - Book of the Year
- Children's book: Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay
2003:
- First novel: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- Novel: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (German: Supergute Tage or The strange world of Christopher Boone ) by Mark Haddon - Book of the year
- Poetry: Landing Light by Don Paterson
- Biography: Orwell : The Life by DJ Taylor
- Children's Book: The Fire-Eaters (dt. Fire eaters ) by David Almond
2004:
- First novel: Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
- Novel: Small Island by Andrea Levy - Book of the Year
- Poetry: Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
- Biography: My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
- Children's book: Not the End of the World (Eng. Not the end of the world ) by Geraldine McCaughrean
2005:
- First novel: The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
- Roman: the accidental by Ali Smith
- Poetry: Cold Calls by Christopher Logue
- Biography: Matisse The Master by Hilary Spurling - Book of the Year
- Children's book: The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
Winner of the Costa Book Awards
2006:
- First novel: The Tenderness of Wolves (Eng. What happened to Rose ) by Stef Penney - Book of the year
- Roman: Restless (dt. Restless ) by William Boyd
- Poetry: Letter to Patience by John Haynes
- Biography: Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson
- Children's book: Set in Stone by Linda Newbery
2007:
- First novel: What Was Lost (Eng. What happened to Kate ) by Catherine O'Flynn
- Roman: Day (dt. Day ) by AL Kennedy - Book of the Year
- Poetry: Tilt by Jean Sprackland
- Biography: Young Stalin (dt. The young Stalin ) by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Children's book: The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley
2008:
- First novel: The Outcast (Eng. The Outsider ) by Sadie Jones
- Novel: The Secret Scripture (Eng. A hidden life ) by Sebastian Barry - Book of the year
- Poetry: The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
- Biography: Somewhere Towards the End (Eng. Somewhere an end: From the good life in old age ) by Diana Athill
- Children's book: Just Henry by Michelle Magorian
2009:
- First novel: Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
- Novel: Brooklyn (dt. Brooklyn ) by Colm Tóibín
- Poetry: A Scattering by Christopher Reid - Book of the Year
- Biography: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
- Children's book: The Ask and the Answer (German New World: The Dark Paradise ) by Patrick Ness
2010:
- First novel: Witness the Night (Eng. The Survivors ) by Kishwar Desai
- Novel: The Hand That First Held Mine (Eng. The hand that held mine at the time ) by Maggie O'Farrell
- Poetry: Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott - Book of the Year
- Biography: The Hare With Amber Eyes (Eng. The hare with the amber eyes - The hidden legacy of the Ephrussi family ) by Edmund de Waal
- Children's book: Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
2011:
- First novel: Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
- Novel: Pure (Eng. Cemetery of the Innocents ) by Andrew Miller - Book of the Year
- Poetry: The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
- Biography: Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis
- Children's book: Blood Red Road by Moira Young
2012:
- First novel: The Innocents (dt. The guileless ) by Francesca Segal
- Novel: Bring up the Bodies (Eng. Falken ) by Hilary Mantel - Book of the Year
- Children's book: Maggot Moon (Eng. Broken Moon ) by Sally Gardner
- Poetry: The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
- Biography: Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot
2013:
- First novel: The Shock of the Fall (Eng. Obituary for the Moon ) by Nathan Filer - Book of the Year
- Roman: Life after Life (Eng. The Unfinished ) by Kate Atkinson
- Children's book: Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
- Poetry: Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
- Biography: The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio - Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
2014:
- First novel: Elizabeth is Missing (engl. Elizabeth is missing ) by Emma Healey
- Roman: How to be Both (dt. From DC to DC ) by Ali Smith
- Children's book: Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
- Poetry: My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
- Biography: H Is For Hawk (Eng. H for Habicht ) by Helen Macdonald - Book of the Year
2015:
- First novel: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
- Roman: A God in Ruins (dt. Glorious times ) by Kate Atkinson
- Children's book: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge - Book of the Year
- Poetry: 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
- Biography: The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World by Andrea Wulf
2016:
- First novel: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
- Novel: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry - Book of the Year
- Children's book: The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan
- Poetry: Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
- Biography: Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
2017:
- First novel: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Novel: Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
- Children's book: The Explorers by Katherine Rundell
- Poetry: Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore (posthumous) - Book of the Year
- Biography: In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
2018:
- First novel: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Novel: Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Children's book: The Skylarks' War by Hilary McKay
- Poetry: Assurances by JO Morgan
- Biography: The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es - Book of the Year
2019:
- First novel: The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
- Novel: Middle England by Jonathan Coe
- Children's book: Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan
- Poetry: Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
- Biography: The Volunteer of Jack Fairweather - Book of the Year
Costa Short Story Award
- 2012: Millie and Bird by Avril Joy
- 2013: The Keeper of the Jackalopes by Angela Readman
- 2014: Fishskin, hareskin by Zoe Gilbert
- 2015: Rogey by Danny Murphy
- 2016: Dirty Little Fishes by Jess Kidd
- 2017: Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns by Luan Goldie
- 2018: Breathing Water by Caroline Ward Vine
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Female authors dominate competition" , Spiegel Online , January 3, 2008
- ↑ "Costa book awards winners 2011 - in pictures" , guardian.co.uk ( The Guardian ), January 4, 2012
- ↑ a b "Costa Short Story Award" , Costa Book Awards (costabookawards.com)
- ↑ costa.co.uk: Costa Short Story Award (September 2, 2015)
- ↑ Costa Short Story Award winners 2015 , Costa, accessed November 24, 2016
- ↑ Rogey , online text of the 2015 winner short story, accessed November 24, 2016