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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 2007.

Costa Book Awards annual series of literary awards in five categories

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland. They were inaugurated for 1971 publications and known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006 when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship. The companion Costa Short Story Award was established in 2012.

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The shortlists were announced on 20 November 2007. [1] The winners in each category were announced on 3 January 2008, and the overall winner for Book of the Year was announced on 22 January 2008.

Book of the Year

Children's Book

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Elizabeth Laird is a British writer of children's fiction and travel. She is also known for the large body of folktales which she collected from the regions of Ethiopia. Her books have been translated into at least fifteen languages.

Meg Rosoff American-British childrens writer

Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Case won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.

Marcus Sedgwick is a British writer, illustrator and musician. He has published novels such as Floodland and The Dark Horse. He authored several picture books, and has illustrated a collection of myths and a book of folk tales for adults. He wrote the thrilling adventure tale Revolver as well.

First Novel

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Tahmima Anam writer

Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007) was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.

Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973 and raised in Cardiff, Wales.

<i>Gifted</i> (novel) book by Nikita Lalwani

Gifted is the debut novel by author Nikita Lalwani longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. It was first published in 2007 by Viking.

Novel

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Neil Vivian Bartlett, OBE, is a British director, performer, translator, and writer. He was one of the founding members of Gloria, a production company established in 1988 to produce his work along with that of Nicolas Bloomfield, Leah Hausman and Simon Mellor. His work has garnered several awards, including the 1985 Perrier Award, the Time Out Dance Umbrella Award, a Writers Guild Award, a Time Out Theatre Award, and the Special Jury Prize at the Cork Film Festival. His production of The Dispute won a Time Out Award for Best Production in the West End and the 1999 TMA Best Touring Production award. He was appointed an OBE in 2000 for his services to the arts.

Rupert Thomson is an English writer of fiction and non-fiction.

Rose Tremain CBE FRSL is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.

Biography

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Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.

Michael Simkins British actor

Michael Simkins is an English actor.

Poetry

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References

  1. Pauli, Michelle (November 28, 2007). "Costa kicks off prize sponsorship with populist shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2017.