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Costa Book Awards

literary award
Also known as: Whitbread Book Awards, Whitbread Literary Awards(Show More)
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Costa Book Awards, series of literary awards that were given annually to writers resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland for books published there in the previous year. The awards were administered by the British Booksellers Association. Established in 1971, they were initially sponsored by the British corporation Whitbread PLC. In 2006 Costa Coffee, a British coffee shop chain and a subsidiary of Whitbread, assumed ownership of the awards. They were discontinued in 2022. Awards...

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