Costa Book Awards 2015
Q. Which of the following statements is/are correct about Costa Book Awards?
1. It is given bi-annually for English language writers only.
2. Writer must be from commonwealth nation.- Published on 08 Jan 16a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None
ANSWER: None
- The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.
- They were inaugurated for 1971 publications and known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006 when Costa Coffee, a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship.
- The British writer Kate Atkinson has won the 2015 Costa novel award for her novel “A God in Ruins”.
- Costa biography award: Andrea Wulf for ‘The Invention of Nature: The - Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science’
- Costa children’s book award: Frances Hardinge for ‘The Lie Tree’.
- Costa Poetry Award: Don Paterson for ‘40 Sonnets’.
- Costa First Novel Award: Andrew Michael Hurley for ‘The Loney’.
