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2011 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 2011.

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The shortlists were announced on 16 November 2011. The category winners were announced on 3 January 2012 and the "Book of the Year" winner was announced on 24 January at a ceremony at Quaglino's restaurant in central London.

The editor of the Evening Standard newspaper, Geordie Greig, chaired the "Book of the Year" panel of celebrity judges; consisting of comedian Hugh Dennis, actress Dervla Kirwan, broadcaster Mary Nightingale, and authors Patrick Gale, Jojo Moyes, Flora Fraser, William Fiennes and Eleanor Updale.

Book of the Year

Winner:

  • Andrew Miller, Pure

    • Children's Book

    Winner:

  • Moira Young, Blood Red Road

    • Shortlist:

  • Martyn Bedford, Flip
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat
  • Lissa Evans Small, Change for Stuart

    • First Novel

    Winner:

  • Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

    • Shortlist:

  • Kevin Barry, City of Bohane
  • Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days
  • Kerry Young, Pao

    • Novel

    Winner:

  • Andrew Miller, Pure

    • Shortlist:

  • Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
  • John Burnside, A Summer of Drowning
  • Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

    • Biography

    Winner:

  • Matthew Hollis, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

    • Shortlist:

  • Julia Blackburn, Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village
  • Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn, Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story
  • Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens: A Life

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees

    • Shortlist:

  • David Harsent, Night
  • Jackie Kay, Fiere
  • Sean O'Brien, November

    • References

    2011 Costa Book Awards Wikipedia
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