Costa Book Awards: Quick Facts

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Also Known As

Whitbread Literary Awards • Whitbread Book Awards

Notable Honorees

Rachel Cusk • Roald Dahl • Seamus Heaney • Salman Rushdie • Kate Atkinson • Paul Theroux • Ted Hughes • Iris Murdoch • J.K. Rowling • James Fenton • Zadie Smith • Ian McEwan • Philip Pullman • Andrew Motion • Carol Ann Duffy • Kazuo Ishiguro • David Lodge • Douglas Dunn • William Trevor • Penelope Lively • Roy Jenkins • Peter Ackroyd • William Plomer • Rose Tremain • Tony Harrison • Russell Hoban • Jeanette Winterson • Rumer Godden • Nicholas Mosley • Beryl Bainbridge • John Wain • Paul Durcan • A.N. Wilson • Alasdair Gray • Michael Frayn • Jennifer Johnston • Christopher Logue • Bruce Chatwin • Peter Porter • Penelope Mortimer

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English literature Novel biography Poetry Booker Prize Women’s Prize for Fiction Governor General’s Literary Awards National Book Awards Commonwealth Book Prize Crossword Book Awards Frost Medal Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Bollingen Prize Prix Goncourt

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