Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards recognize books in several categories: novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's. It is open to authors who have lived in the United Kingdom or Ireland for over six months in each of the previous three years - nationality is not essential.

Click here for a list of winners from 1971 to the present. Past winners include "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling and "The Spirit Level" by Seamus Haney.

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