2010 Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards.[citation needed] 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 2010.
The shortlists were announced on 17 November 2010. The winners in each category were announced on 4 January 2011.
Book of the Year[]
Winner:
- Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability
Children's Book[]
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Lucy Christopher, Flyaway
- , Annexed
- Jonathan Stroud, Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon
First Novel[]
Winner:
- Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night
Shortlist:
- Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited
- Aatish Taseer, The Temple-Goers
- Simon Thirsk, Not Quite White
Novel[]
Winner:
- Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
Shortlist:
- Louise Doughty, Whatever You Love
- Nigel Farndale, The Blasphemer
- Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
Biography[]
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Sarah Bakewell, How to Live A Life of Montaigne
- Michael Frayn, My Father's Fortune
Poetry[]
Winner:
- Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability
Shortlist:
- Roy Fisher, Standard Midland
- Robin Robertson, The Wrecking Light
- Sam Willetts, New Light for the Old Dark
References[]
External links[]
- "Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies", Mark Brown, The Guardian, 16 November 2010
- "Costa judge laments a weak year for fiction", Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 17 November 2010
Categories:
- Costa Book Awards
- 2010 literary awards
- 2010 awards in the United Kingdom