2007 Costa Book Awards
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 2007.
The shortlists were announced on 20 November 2007. The winners in each category were announced on 3 January 2008, and the overall winner for Book of the Year was announced on 22 January 2008.
Book of the Year
Children's Book
Winner:
- Ann Kelley, The Bower Bird
Shortlist:
- Elizabeth Laird, Crusade
- Meg Rosoff, What I Was
- Marcus Sedgwick, Blood Red Snow White
First Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age
- Nikita Lalwani, Gifted
- Roma Tearne, Mosquito
Novel
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Neil Bartlett, Skin Lane
- Rupert Thomson, Death of a Murderer
- Rose Tremain, The Road Home
Biography
Winner:
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
Shortlist:
- Julie Kavanagh, Rudolf Nureyev
- Ben Macintyre, Agent Zigzag
- Michael Simkins, Fatty Batter
Poetry
Winner:
- Jean Sprackland, Tilt
Shortlist:
- Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark
- John Fuller, The Space of Joy
- Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover!
References
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