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The shortlist for this year's Costa Book Awards, formerly known as the
Whitbread Awards, were announced recently. One of the most prestigious
literary prizes in the UK, the Awards honor the most enjoyable books of
the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.
Five panels of judges selected finalists in the categories of First
Novel, Novel, Children's Book, Poetry and Biography, and the winners
--- to be announced on January 3rd, 2008 --- will receive a cash prize
of £5,000. One of the five winning titles will then be chosen as the
overall recipient of the Book of the Year Award and will further be
given £25,000. Previous winners include THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG
IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon, THE AMBER SPYGLASS by Philip Pullman,
BEOWULF by Seamus Heaney, BIRTHDAY LETTERS by Ted Hughes and SMALL
ISLAND by Andrea Levy.
The shortlist for the 2007 Costa Awards includes:
Costa First Novel Award
A GOLDEN AGE by Tahmima Anam (Harper)
GIFTED by Nikita Lalwani (Random House)
WHAT WAS LOST by Catherine O'Flynn (Random House)
MOSQUITO by Roma Tearne (HarperCollins)
Costa Novel Award
SKIN LANE by Neil Barlett (Serpent's Tail)
DAY by A. L. Kennedy (Knopf)
DEATH OF A MURDERER by Rupert Thomson (Knopf)
THE ROAD HOME by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)
Costa Children's Book Award
THE BOWER BIRD by Ann Kelley (Luath Press Ltd)
CRUSADE by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan Children's Books)
WHAT I WAS by Meg Rosoff (Viking)
BLOOD RED SNOW WHITE by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion Children's Books)
Costa Poetry Award
THE SPEED OF DARK by Ian Duhig (Macmillan UK)
THE SPACE OF JOY by John Fuller (Random House UK)
LOOK WE HAVE COMING TO DOVER! by Daljit Nagra (Faber and Faber)
TILT by Jean Sprackland (Jonathan Cape)
Costa Biography Award
RUDOLF NUREYEV by Julie Kavanagh (Pantheon)
AGENT ZIGZAG by Ben Macintyre (Harmony)
YOUNG STALIN by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf)
FATTY BATTER by Michael Simkins (Random House UK)
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