Costa book awards
Kate Saunders obituary
Prize-winning novelist who won the Costa award for Five Children on the Western Front and whose Belfry Witches stories were adapted for TV
Amanda Craig
24, Apr, 2023 @11:42 AM
Georgina Hammick obituary
Poet and writer whose protagonists are often women comically uncomfortable inside outdated traditions of femininity
Tessa Hadley
13, Feb, 2023 @4:52 PM
‘Someone will get whipped – the white men’: the amazing period drama that rewrites stories of slavery
Part whodunnit, part queer romance tale, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is subverting the genre. Its writer and star explain a dark, twisted drama – and its route to murder
Hollie Richardson
07, Dec, 2022 @12:24 PM
The Guardian view on book prizes: don’t forget the children | Editorial
Editorial: In a changing awards landscape, fiction for young readers should not be left out in the cold
Editorial
27, Jul, 2022 @5:25 PM
Rathbones Folio prize ‘refreshing format’ to expand to three categories
Winners for fiction, nonfiction and poetry will each receive £2,000 and then compete for the overall £30,000 award
Sarah Shaffi
26, Jul, 2022 @2:33 PM
Shock ending: how the Costa book awards changed reading – and pitted husband against wife
After 50 years, the prize has been scrapped. How did it change Britain’s literary landscape? And what happened at the awards when Margaret Drabble was seated next to Theresa May?
Claire Armitstead
23, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM
Costa book awards scrapped suddenly after 50 years
Coffee company announces ‘difficult decision’ to end the prizes, sparking a chorus of disappointment across the books industry
David Barnett
10, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM
‘The pendulum has swung’: Why we female Trinidadian writers are having our moment
Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean island
Monique Roffey
03, May, 2022 @1:03 PM
Costa winner Hannah Lowe: ‘Should teachers write about students? That question’s too categorical’
The teacher-turned-poet on getting into writing later in life, the ethics of poems about former students and how her years working in schools shaped her thinking
Alison Flood
04, Feb, 2022 @4:04 PM
‘Uplifting’ book of sonnets by Hannah Lowe wins Costa book of the year
The Kids, based on the former teacher’s experiences, was described by chair Reeta Chakrabarti as ‘a book to fall in love with’, as Lowe receives £30,000 prize
Alison Flood
01, Feb, 2022 @7:30 PM
Caleb Azumah Nelson wins Costa first novel award for Open Water
Judges praise ‘searingly intimate’ debut, while Claire Fuller wins best novel and John Preston takes biography prize
Alison Flood
04, Jan, 2022 @7:30 PM
Costa prize 2021 shortlists highlight climate anxiety
Jessie Greengrass’s novel The High House, set in a flood-devastated Suffolk was one of several of the nominees to focus on global heating, said judges
Alison Flood
23, Nov, 2021 @7:30 PM
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