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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 2010.

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, 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 17 November 2010. The winners in each category were announced on 4 January 2011.

Book of the Year

Winner:

Children's Book

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Lucy Christopher is a British/Australian author best known for her novel Stolen, which won the Branford Boase award 2010 in the UK, and the 2010 Gold Inky in Australia. Her second book, Flyaway, was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards and the 2010 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. She currently lives in the United Kingdom and is working on her fourth novel, as well as the screenplay for her critically acclaimed novel Stolen.

Jonathan Stroud British writer of fantasy fiction

Jonathan Anthony Stroud is a British writer of fantasy fiction, mainly for children and young adults.

First Novel

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Aatish Taseer, is a British-born writer-journalist, and the son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer.

Simon Thirsk is a retired South African swimmer, who specialised in backstroke events. He won a gold medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 1999 Summer Universiade, and later represented South Africa at the 2000 Summer Olympics. While residing in the United States, Thirsk played for the University of Hawaii's swimming and diving team, also known as the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, under head coach Sam Freas.

Novel

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Louise Doughty English novelist, playwright and journalist

Louise Doughty is an English fiction and non-fiction writer, and a playwright and journalist.

Nigel Farndale is a British author and journalist, known for his broadsheet interviews and his novel The Blasphemer.

Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void.

Biography

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Sarah Bakewell English author and curator

Sarah Bakewell is a British author of non-fiction. She currently lives in London. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction.

Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (2006).

Poetry

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Roy Fisher British musician

Roy Fisher was a British poet and jazz pianist. His poetry shows an openness to both European and American modernist influences, while remaining grounded in the experience of living in the English Midlands. Fisher has experimented with a wide range of styles throughout his career, largely working outside of the mainstream of post-war British poetry. He has been admired by poets and critics as diverse as Donald Davie, Eric Mottram, Marjorie Perloff, and Sean O’Brien.

Robin Robertson, FRSL is a Scottish poet.

Sam Willetts is an English poet. He was born and raised in Oxford. His father Harry Willetts was a noted scholar and translator of Russian at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Sam studied English at Wadham College. He has struggled with drug addiction and homelessness. His first book of poems New Light for the Old Dark (2010) was nominated for the Forward Prize, the Costa Prize and the TS Eliot Prize.

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The Costa Book 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 2015.

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