The Costa Book Awards
March 17th 2007 23:59
The winner of the Costa Book prize for 2006
Previously known as the Whitbread Award, this award was taken over by a different sponsor and has been re-named accordingly. The Costa Book Awards are awarded in five categories – Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Children’s Book, Best Poetry and Best Biography – and are eligible to be won by United Kingdom-based authors. Below are the Best Novel winners, which are less genre-specific than most literary-awards (and hence, less snobby!)…
‘How Far Can You Go’ – David Lodge (1980)
‘A Good Man in Africa’ – William Boyd (1981)
‘On the Black Hill’ – Bruce Chatwin (1982)
‘Flying to Nowhere’ – John Fuller (1983)
‘A Parish of Rich Women’ – James Buchan (1984)
‘Elegies’ – Douglas Dunn (1985)
‘An Artist of the Floating World’ – Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
‘Under the Eye of the Clock’ – Christopher Nolan (1987)
‘The Comforts of Madness’ – Paul Sayer (1988)
‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ – Richard Holmes (1989)
‘Hopeful Monsters’ – Nicholas Mosley (1990)
‘A Life of Picasso’ – John Richardson (1991)
‘Swing Hammer Swing!’ – Jeff Torrington (1992)
‘Theory of War’ – Joan Brady (1993)
‘Felicia’s Journey’ – William Trevor (1994)
‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’ – Salman Rushdie (1996)
‘Tales From Ovid – Ted Hughes (1997)
‘Birthday Letters’ – Ted Hughes (1998)
‘Beowulf’ – Seamus Heaney (1999)
‘The Amber Spyglass’ – Philip Pullman (2001)
‘Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self’ – Claire Tomalin (2002)
‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ – Mark Haddon (2003)
‘Small Island’ – Andrea Levy (2004)
‘Matisse The Master’ – Hilary Spurling (2005)
‘The Tenderness of Wolves’ – Stef Penney (2006)
| 46 |
| Vote |
