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2010 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 2010.

Contents

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:

  • Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows

    • Shortlist:

  • Lucy Christopher, Flyaway
  • Sharon Dogar, 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:

  • Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes

    • 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

    2010 Costa Book Awards Wikipedia
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