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2013 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 2013.

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The shortlist was announced on 26 November 2013. The category winners were announced 6 January 2014. The Book of the Year was announced 28 January 2014.

Book of the Year

Winner: Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

Children's Book

Winner: Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

Shortlist:

  • Ross Montgomery, Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door
  • Sarah Naughton, The Hanged Man Rises
  • Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire

    • First Novel

    Winner: Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

    Shortlist:

  • Sam Byers, Idiopathy
  • Kate Clanchy, Meeting the English
  • Sathnam Sanghera, Marriage Material

    • Novel

    Winner: Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

    Shortlist:

  • Bernardine Bishop, Unexpected Lessons in Love
  • Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave
  • Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing

    • Biography

    Winner: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

    Shortlist:

  • Gavin Francis, Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
  • Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz
  • Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

    • Poetry

    Winner: Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter

    Shortlist:

  • Clive James, Dante, The Divine Comedy
  • Helen Mort, Division Street
  • Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors

    • Short Story

    Winner:

  • Angela Readman, "The Keeper of the Jackalopes"

    • Second:

  • Kit de Waal, "The Old Man and the Suit"

    • Third:

  • Tony Bagley, "The Forgiveness Thing"

    • Shortlist:

  • Clare Chandler, "The Gun Shearer"
  • Sheila Llewellyn, "The Papakh Hat"
  • Erin Soros, "Still Water, BC"

    • References

    2013 Costa Book Awards Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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