2011 Costa Book Awards
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The shortlists were announced on 16 November 2011. The winners in each category will be announced in January 2012.
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Children's Book
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- Martyn BedfordMartyn BedfordMartyn Bedford is a British author. He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers....
, Flip - Frank Cottrell BoyceFrank Cottrell Boyce-Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
, The Unforgotten Coat - Lissa Evans Small, Change for Stuart
- Moira Young, Blood Red Road
First Novel
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- Kevin BarryKevin Barry (author)Kevin Barry is an Irish writer from Limerick. In 2007 he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his short story collection There are Little Kingdoms. In 2011 he released his debut novel City of Bohane...
, City of Bohane - Patrick McGuinnessPatrick McGuinness (writer)Patrick McGuinness is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University, and is also known as a poet and novelist.- Life :...
, The Last Hundred Days - Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
- Kerry Young, Pao
Novel
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- Julian BarnesJulian BarnesJulian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...
, The Sense of an EndingThe Sense of an EndingThe Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel written by British author Julian Barnes. The book is Barnes' eleventh novel and was released on 4 August 2011 in the United Kingdom. The Sense of an Ending is narrated by a middle-aged man named Tony Webster, who recalls how he and his clique met Adrian Finn... - John BurnsideJohn BurnsideJohn Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.-Background:Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996...
, A Summer of Drowning - Andrew MillerAndrew Miller (novelist)Andrew Miller is an English novelist.He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France....
, Pure - Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
Biography
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- Julia BlackburnJulia BlackburnJulia Blackburn is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric...
, Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village - Patrick CockburnPatrick CockburnPatrick Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, presently, The Independent....
& Henry Cockburn, Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story - Matthew Hollis, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
- Claire TomalinClaire TomalinClaire Tomalin is an English biographer and journalist. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies...
, Charles Dickens: A Life
Poetry
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- Carol Ann DuffyCarol Ann DuffyCarol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...
, The Bees - David HarsentDavid HarsentDavid Harsent is an English poet & TV scriptwriter. As Jack Curtis and David Lawrence he has published a number of crime fiction novels....
, Night - Jackie KayJackie KayJackie Kay MBE is a Scottish poet and novelist.-Biography:Jackie Kay was born in Glasgow in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Jonathan C. Okafor who later became a prominent tropical plant taxonomist...
, Fiere - Sean O’Brien, November