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Costa Book Awards

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Former annual literary awards

Costa Book Awards
Awarded forEnglish-language books by writers based in the UK and Ireland
CountryUnited Kingdom andIreland
Presented byCosta Coffee
Formerly calledWhitbread Book Awards
First award1971; 54 years ago (1971)
Final award2021; 4 years ago (2021)
Websitehttp://costabookawards.com Edit this on Wikidata

TheCosta Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based inUK andIreland. Originally named theWhitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, theWhitbread company, then a brewery and owner of pub-restaurant chains, it was renamed whenCosta Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship.[1][2] The companionCosta Short Story Award was established in 2012.[3] Costa Coffee was purchased bythe Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The awards were discontinued in 2022.[4]

The awards were given both for high literary merit and for works that were enjoyable reading, and their aim was to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than theBooker Prize, which also limited winners to literature written in the English language and published in the UK and Ireland.

Awards were separated into six categories:Biography,Children's Books,First Novel,Novel,Poetry, andShort Story.

In 1989, there was controversy when the judges first awarded the Best Novel prize toAlexander Stuart'sThe War Zone, then withdrew the prize prior to the ceremony amid acrimony among the judges, ultimately awarding it toLindsay Clarke'sThe Chymical Wedding.

History

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The 1989 Whitbread Book Award for Best Novel was first awarded toThe War Zone by Alexander Stuart.[5] However, jurorJane Gardam felt the book was "repellent" and appealed directly to the Whitbread company, arguing that awarding the prize to Stuart's novel would make them into a "laughing stock".[6] After ten days, and leaking the story to the press, the other two jurors,David Cook andVal Hennessy, were persuaded to change their minds, and Lindsay Clarke'sThe Chymical Wedding won the award instead. Both Cook and Hennessy found the experience so unpleasant they vowed to never sit in an award jury again.[7]

The awards were discontinued in 2022, with the 2021 awards being the last ones made.[4][8] Just one month later, theBlue Peter Book Award was also discontinued; this left only three widely recognized awards for UK children's literature (theWaterstones Children's Book Prize, theCarnegie Medal, and theKate Greenaway Medal).[9]

Process

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There were five book award categories. These had not been changed since the Poetry Award was introduced in 1985, although the children's category had been termed "children's novel" or "children's book of the year".[1][2] The categories are:

  • Novel
  • First novel
  • Children's book
  • Poetry
  • Biography

Each of the five winning writers received £5,000. The prize required a £5,000 fee from publishers if a book was to be shortlisted.[10]

Short stories

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The short story award was established in 2012 with a prize of £3,500 for the first, £1,000 for the second and £500 for the third.[11] The winning story was determined by public vote from a shortlist of six that were selected by a panel of judges. The process was "blind" at both stages for the unpublished entries were anonymous until the conclusion.[3][12]

In the inaugural year, the six short story finalists were exposed anonymously online while the public vote was underway, two months before the winner was to be announced.[12]

Winners

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Bold font and blue ribbon (Blue ribbon) distinguish the overall Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year.[1]

For lists that include shortlisted entries (where available), please see:

List of award winners

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YearAwardNotes & Refs
NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort story
1971Gerda Charles
The Destiny Waltz		——Geoffrey Hill
Mercian Hymns		Michael Meyer
Henrik Ibsen		—
1972Susan Hill
The Bird of Night		—Rumer Godden
The Diddakoi		—James Pope-Hennessy
Anthony Trollope		—
1973Shiva Naipaul
The Chip-Chip Gatherers		—Alan Aldridge andWilliam Plomer
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast		—John Wilson
CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman		—
1974Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine		Claire Tomalin
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft		Russell Hoban andQuentin Blake
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Winding Sheet		—Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan		—
1975William McIlvanney
Docherty		Ruth Spalding
The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke		——Helen Corke
In Our Infancy		—
1976William Trevor
The Children of Dynmouth		—Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time		—Winifred Gerin
Elizabeth Gaskell		—
1977Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time		—Shelagh Macdonald
No End to Yesterday		—Nigel Nicolson
Mary Curzon		—
1978Paul Theroux
Picture Palace		—Philippa Pearce
The Battle of Bubble & Squeak		—John Grigg
Lloyd George: The People's Champion		—
1979Jennifer Johnston
The Old Jest		—Peter Dickinson
Tulku		—Penelope Mortimer
About Time		—
1980David Lodge
How Far Can You GoBlue ribbon		—Leon Garfield
John Diamond		—David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist		—
1981Maurice Leitch
Silver's City		William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa		Jane Gardam
The Hollow Land		—Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Making of a General		—
1982John Wain
Young Shoulders		Bruce Chatwin
On the Black Hill		W. J. Corbett
The Song of Pentecost		—Edward Crankshaw
Bismark		—
1983William Trevor
Fools of Fortune		John Fuller
Flying to Nowhere		Roald Dahl
The Witches		—Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King George V		—
1984Christopher Hope
Kruger's Alp		James Buchan
A Parish of Rich Women		Barbara Willard
The Queen of the Pharisees' Children		—Peter Ackroyd
T. S. Eliot		Diane Rowe
Tomorrow is our Permanent Address
1985Peter Ackroyd
Hawksmoor		Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit		Janni Howker
The Nature of the Beast		Douglas Dunn
ElegiesBlue ribbon		Ben Pimlott
Hugh Dalton		—
1986Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating WorldBlue ribbon		Jim Crace
Continent		Andrew Taylor
The Coal House		Peter Reading
Stet		Richard Mabey
Gilbert White		—
1987Ian McEwan
The Child in Time		Francis Wyndham
The Other Garden		Geraldine McCaughrean
A Little Lower than the Angels		Seamus Heaney
The Haw Lantern		Christopher Nolan
Under the Eye of the ClockBlue ribbon		—
1988Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses		Paul Sayer
The Comforts of MadnessBlue ribbon		Judy Allen
Awaiting Developments		Peter Porter
The Automatic Oracle		A. N. Wilson
Tolstoy		—
1989Lindsay Clarke
The Chymical Wedding		James Hamilton-Paterson
Gerontius		Hugh Scott
Why Weeps the Brogan		Michael Donaghy
Shibboleth		Richard Holmes
Coleridge: Early VisionsBlue ribbon		—
1990Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful MonstersBlue ribbon		Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia		Peter Dickinson
AK		Paul Durcan
Daddy, Daddy		Ann Thwaite
AA Milne – His Life		—
1991Jane Gardam
The Queen of the Tambourine		Gordon Burn
Alma Cogan		Diana Hendry
Harvey Angell		Michael Longley
Gorse Fires		John Richardson
A Life of PicassoBlue ribbon		—
1992Alasdair Gray
Poor Things		Jeff Torrington
Swing Hammer Swing!Blue ribbon		Gillian Cross
The Great Elephant Chase		Tony Harrison
The Gaze of the Gorgon		Victoria Glendinning
Trollope		—
1993Joan Brady
Theory of WarBlue ribbon		Rachel Cusk
Saving Agnes		Anne Fine
Flour Babies		Carol Ann Duffy
Mean Time		Andrew Motion
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life		—
1994William Trevor
Felicia's JourneyBlue ribbon		Fred D'Aguiar
The Longest Memory		Geraldine McCaughrean
Gold Dust		James Fenton
Out of Danger		Brenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: The Married Man		—
1995Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Last Sigh		Kate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumBlue ribbon		Michael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the Zanzibar		Bernard O'Donoghue
Gunpowder		Roy Jenkins
Gladstone		—
1996Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for Himself		John Lanchester
The Debt to Pleasure		Anne Fine
The Tulip Touch		Seamus Heaney
The Spirit LevelBlue ribbon		Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: A Life		—
1997Jim Crace
Quarantine		Pauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's Tale		Andrew Norriss
Aquila		Ted Hughes
Tales from OvidBlue ribbon		Graham Robb
Victor Hugo		—
1998Justin Cartwright
Leading the Cheers		Giles Foden
The Last King of Scotland		David Almond
Skellig		Ted Hughes
Birthday LettersBlue ribbon		Amanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire		—Posthumous Book of the Year Award
1999Rose Tremain
Music and Silence		Tim Lott
White City Blue		J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban		Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Verse TranslationBlue ribbon		David Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness		—
2000Matthew Kneale
English PassengersBlue ribbon		Zadie Smith
White Teeth		Jamila Gavin
Coram Boy		John Burnside
The Asylum Dance		Lorna Sage
Bad Blood – A Memoir		—
2001Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar Blues		Sid Smith
Something Like A House		Philip Pullman
The Amber SpyglassBlue ribbon		Selima Hill
Bunny		Diana Souhami
Selkirk's Island		—
2002Michael Frayn
Spies		Norman Lebrecht
The Song of Names		Hilary McKay
Saffy's Angel		Paul Farley
The Ice Age		Claire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled SelfBlue ribbon		—
2003Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeBlue ribbon		DBC Pierre
Vernon God Little		David Almond
The Fire-Eaters		Don Paterson
Landing Light (poetry collection)		DJ Taylor
Orwell: The Life		—
2004Andrea Levy
Small IslandBlue ribbon		Susan Fletcher
Eve Green		Geraldine McCaughrean
Not the End of the World		Michael Symmons Roberts
Corpus		John Guy
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots		—
2005Ali Smith
The Accidental		Tash Aw
The Harmony Silk Factory		Kate Thompson
The New Policeman		Christopher Logue
Cold Calls		Hilary Spurling
Matisse the MasterBlue ribbon		—
2006William Boyd
Restless		Stef Penney
The Tenderness of WolvesBlue ribbon		Linda Newbery
Set in Stone		John Haynes
Letter to Patience		Brian Thompson
Keeping Mum		—
2007A.L. Kennedy
DayBlue ribbon		Catherine O'Flynn
What Was Lost		Ann Kelley
The Bower Bird		Jean Sprackland
Tilt		Simon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin		—
2008Sebastian Barry
The Secret ScriptureBlue ribbon		Sadie Jones
The Outcast		Michelle Magorian
Just Henry		Adam Foulds
The Broken Word		Diana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End		—
2009Colm Tóibin
Brooklyn		Raphael Selbourne
Beauty		Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer		Christopher Reid
A ScatteringBlue ribbon		Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius		—
2010Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand That First Held Mine		Kishwar Desai
Witness the Night		Jason Wallace
Out of Shadows		Jo Shapcott
Of MutabilityBlue ribbon		Edmund de Waal
The Hare with Amber Eyes		—
2011Andrew Miller
PureBlue ribbon		Christie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away		Moira Young
Blood Red Road		Carol Ann Duffy
The Bees		Matthew Hollis
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas		—
2012Hilary Mantel
Bring up the BodiesBlue ribbon		Francesca Segal
The Innocents		Sally Gardner
Maggot Moon		Kathleen Jamie
The Overhaul		Mary Talbot andBryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father's Eyes		Avril Joy
Millie and Bird		[13]
2013Kate Atkinson
Life after Life		Nathan Filer
The Shock of the FallBlue ribbon		Chris Riddell
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse		Michael Symmons Roberts
Drysalter		Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Pike		Angela Readman
The Keeper of the Jackalopes
2014Ali Smith
How to Be Both		Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing		Kate Saunders
Five Children on the Western Front		Jonathan Edwards
My Family and Other Superheroes		Helen Macdonald
H is for HawkBlue ribbon		Zoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin
2015Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins		Andrew Michael Hurley
The Loney		Frances Hardinge
The Lie TreeBlue ribbon		Don Paterson
40 Sonnets		Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature		Danny Murphy
Rogey
2016Sebastian Barry
Days Without EndBlue ribbon		Francis Spufford
Golden Hill		Brian Conaghan
The Bombs That Brought Us Together		Alice Oswald
Falling Awake		Keggie Carew
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory		Jess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes
2017Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13		Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine		Katherine Rundell
The Explorer		Helen Dunmore
Inside the WaveBlue ribbon		Rebecca Stott
In the Days of Rain		—Posthumous Book of the Year Award[14]
2018Sally Rooney
Normal People		Stuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle		Hilary McKay
The Skylarks' War		J. O. Morgan
Assurances		Bart van Es
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and FoundBlue ribbon		—[15]
2019Jonathan Coe
Middle England		Sara Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton		Jasbinder Bilan
Asha & the Spirit Bird		Mary Jean Chan
Flèche		Jack Fairweather
The VolunteerBlue ribbon[16]		—[17]
2020Monique Roffey
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love StoryBlue ribbon		Ingrid Persaud
Love After Love		Natasha Farrant
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk		Eavan Boland
The Historians		Lee Lawrence
The Louder I Will Sing		Tessa Sheridan
The Person Who Serves, Serves Again		[18]
2021Claire Fuller,Unsettled GroundCaleb Azumah Nelson,Open WaterManjeet Mann,The CrossingHannah Lowe,The KidsBlue ribbonJohn Preston,Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell—[19]
YearNovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort storyNotes & Refs
"—" not awarded this year

See also

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References

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  1. ^abc"CBA Past Winners 2015 Version"(PDF).Costa Book Awards. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 15 September 2015. Retrieved12 September 2015.
  2. ^ab"CBA Past Shortlists 2015 Version"(PDF).Costa Book Awards. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 24 November 2015. Retrieved12 September 2015.
  3. ^abAlison Flood (17 July 2012)."Costa's new short story award to be judged anonymously".The Guardian. Retrieved17 July 2012.
  4. ^abBarnett, David (10 June 2022)."Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years".The Guardian. Retrieved3 March 2023.
  5. ^Kelly, Laura (11 January 2000)."The Wrath of Roth". Sun Sentinel. Archived fromthe original on 1 July 2021.
  6. ^"The War Zone Diary", page 222 of the War Zone, Stuart, Alexander, ISBN 0385249535, Doubleday, 1989
  7. ^David Streitfeld (10 December 1989)."Book Report".The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.ISSN 0190-8286.OCLC 1330888409.Archived from the original on 27 August 2017.
  8. ^Armitstead, Claire (23 June 2022)."Shock ending: how the Costa book awards changed reading – and pitted husband against wife".The Guardian. Retrieved3 March 2023.
  9. ^Shaffi, Sarah (6 July 2022)."Children's books world reacts to 'horrible loss' of Blue Peter book awards".TheGuardian.com.Archived from the original on 29 May 2023.
  10. ^Danuta Kean (2 January 2017)."On eve of Costa awards, experts warn that top books prizes are harming fiction".The Guardian. Retrieved27 November 2018.The biggest three prizes, including the Costas, require a £5,000 fee from publishers if a book is shortlisted. This is a contribution towards marketing and should, the organisers claim, be offset by increases in sales.
  11. ^"The Costa Short Story Award terms and conditions of entry"(PDF). Costa. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 25 November 2016. Retrieved24 November 2016.
  12. ^abAlison Flood (28 November 2012)."Costa short story prize to be decided by public vote". Alison Flood. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  13. ^"Costa Short Story Award"Archived 15 February 2014 at theWayback Machine. Costa Book Awards. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  14. ^"Costa Book Awards 2017"(PDF). Costa Book Awards. January 2018. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 3 January 2018. Retrieved3 January 2018.
  15. ^"Costa Book Awards 2018: the category award winners are..."BBC. January 2019. Retrieved8 January 2019.
  16. ^Chandler, Mark (28 January 2020)."Costa Book of the Year won by Fairweather's The Volunteer".The Bookseller. Retrieved28 January 2020.
  17. ^Doyle, Martin (6 January 2020)."Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed".The Irish Times. Retrieved28 January 2020.
  18. ^"Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins".BBC. January 2021. Retrieved3 February 2021.
  19. ^"Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced".Costa. Retrieved5 January 2022.

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