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.^{[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 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, ^[3]

Shortlist:^[1]

• ,
• ,
• 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,
• Maggie O'Farrell,
• 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:

• , "The Gun Shearer"
• , "The Papakh Hat"
• Erin Soros, "Still Water, BC"

References[]