2013 Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2013.
The shortlist was announced on 26 November 2013.[1][2] The category winners were announced 6 January 2014.[3] The Book of the Year was announced 28 January 2014.
Book of the Year
Winner: Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall[4]
Children's Book
Winner: Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse[3]
Shortlist:[1]
- Ross Montgomery, Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door
- Sarah Naughton, The Hanged Man Rises
- Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire
First Novel
Winner: Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall[3]
Shortlist:[1]
- Sam Byers, Idiopathy
- Kate Clanchy, Meeting the English
- Sathnam Sanghera, Marriage Material
Novel
Winner: Kate Atkinson, Life After Life[3]
Shortlist:[1]
- Bernardine Bishop, Unexpected Lessons in Love
- Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave
- Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing
Biography
Winner: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War[3]
Shortlist:[1]
- Gavin Francis, Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
- Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz
- Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink
Poetry
Winner: Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter[3]
Shortlist:[1]
- Clive James, Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Helen Mort, Division Street
- Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors
Short Story
Winner:
- Angela Readman, "The Keeper of the Jackalopes"[5]
Second:
- Kit de Waal, "The Old Man and the Suit"
Third:
- Tony Bagley, "The Forgiveness Thing"
Shortlist:
- Clare Chandler, "The Gun Shearer"
- Sheila Llewellyn, "The Papakh Hat"
- Erin Soros, "Still Water, BC"
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Costa Book Awards 2013: not just for hot young things". Daily Telegraph. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ↑ "Nathan Filer wins Costa Book of the Year with debut novel". BBC. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ↑ "Costa Short Story Award". Costa Book Awards. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
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