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2008 Costa Book Awards

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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. 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 2008.

Contents

The shortlists were announced on 18 November 2008. The winners in each category were announced on 5 January 2009, and the overall winner for Book of the Year was announced on 27 January 2009.

Book of the Year

  • Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Sadie Jones, The Outcast

    • Shortlist:

  • Poppy Adams, The Behaviour of Moths
  • Tom Rob Smith, Child 44
  • Jennie Rooney, Inside the Whale

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

    • Shortlist:

  • Chris Cleave, The Other Hand
  • Louis de Bernières, A Partisan's Daughter
  • Patrick McGrath, Trauma

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End

    • Shortlist:

  • Judith Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina
  • Sathnam Sanghera, If You Don't Know Me By Now: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
  • Jackie Wullschlager, Chagall

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Adam Foulds, The Broken Word

    • Shortlist:

  • Ciarán Carson, For All We Know
  • Kathryn Simmonds, Sunday at the Skin Launderette
  • Greta Stoddart, Salvation Jane

    • Children's Book

    Winner:

  • Michelle Magorian, Just Henry

    • Shortlist:

  • Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
  • Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries: 2015
  • Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup

    • References

    2008 Costa Book Awards Wikipedia
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