Costa Book Awards

I Costa Book Awards sono stati una serie di premi letterari assegnati a scrittori residenti nel Regno Unito e in Irlanda^[1] pubblicati l'anno precedente^[2].

Costa Book Awards
Assegnato da	British Booksellers Association, Costa Coffee
Paese	Regno Unito
Anno inizio	1971
Anno fine	2022
Sito web	www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards

Istituiti a partire dal 1971 per celebrare i "libri più divertenti dell'anno"^[3] come Whitbread Awards, hanno cambiato il loro nome in quello attuale nel 2006 quando è subentrato il nuovo sponsor Costa Coffee^[4].

Sono suddivisi in cinque categorie: Romanzo d'esordio, Romanzo, Libro per ragazzi, Biografia, Poesia^[5] alle quali si è aggiunta dal 2012 una sesta: Raccolta di racconti^[6].

Ad ogni vincitore viene riconosciuta una cifra pari a 5000£ e, a partire dal 1985, l'autore del libro dell'anno scelto tra i premiati si aggiudica ulteriori 30000£^[7].

Il riconoscimento è stato cancellato improvvisamente il 10 giugno 2022 dopo 50 anni di attività^[8].

Albo d'oro[9]

Anno	Premi						Note
	Romanzo	Romanzo d'esordio	Libro per ragazzi	Poesia	Biografia	Raccolta di racconti
1971	Gerda Charles The Destiny Waltz	—	—	Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns	Michael Meyer Henrik Ibsen	—
1972	Susan Hill The Bird of Night	—	Rumer Godden The Diddakoi	—	James Pope-Hennessy Anthony Trollope	—
1973	Shiva Naipaul The Chip-Chip Gatherers	—	Alan Aldridge and William Plomer The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast	—	John Wilson CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman	—
1974	Iris Murdoch The Sacred and Profane Love Machine	Claire Tomalin The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft	Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen Jill Paton Walsh The Emperor's Winding Sheet	—	Andrew Boyle Poor Dear Brendan	—
1975	William McIlvanney Docherty	Ruth Spalding The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke	—	—	Helen Corke In Our Infancy	—
1976	William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth	—	Penelope Lively L'estate in cui tutto cambiò	—	Winifred Gerin Elizabeth Gaskell	—
1977	Beryl Bainbridge Injury Time	—	Shelagh Macdonald No End to Yesterday	—	Nigel Nicolson Mary Curzon	—
1978	Paul Theroux Picture Palace	—	Philippa Pearce The Battle of Bubble & Squeak	—	John Grigg Lloyd George: The People's Champion	—
1979	Jennifer Johnston The Dawning	—	Peter Dickinson Tulku	—	Penelope Mortimer About Time	—
1980	David Lodge How Far Can You Go	—	Leon Garfield John Diamond	—	David Newsome On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist	—
1981	Maurice Leitch Silver's City	William Boyd A Good Man in Africa	Jane Gardam The Hollow Land	—	Nigel Hamilton Monty: The Making of a General	—
1982	John Wain Young Shoulders	Bruce Chatwin Sulla collina nera	W. J. Corbett The Song of Pentecost	—	Edward Crankshaw Bismark	—
1983	William Trevor Fools of Fortune	John Fuller Flying to Nowhere	Roald Dahl Le streghe	—	Victoria Glendinning Vita Kenneth Rose King George V	—
1984	Christopher Hope Kruger's Alp	James Buchan A Parish of Rich Women	Barbara Willard The Queen of the Pharisees' Children	—	Peter Ackroyd T. S. Eliot	Diane Rowe Tomorrow is our Permanent Address
1985	Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor	Jeanette Winterson Non ci sono solo le arance	Janni Howker The Nature of the Beast	Douglas Dunn Elegies	Ben Pimlott Hugh Dalton	—
1986	Kazuo Ishiguro Un artista del mondo fluttuante	Jim Crace Continent	Andrew Taylor The Coal House	Peter Reading Stet	Richard Mabey Gilbert White	—
1987	Ian McEwan Bambini nel tempo	Francis Wyndham The Other Garden	Geraldine McCaughrean A Little Lower than the Angels	Seamus Heaney The Haw Lantern	Christopher Nolan Under the Eye of the Clock	—
1988	Salman Rushdie I versi satanici	Paul Sayer Le comodità della pazzia	Judy Allen Awaiting Developments	Peter Porter The Automatic Oracle	A. N. Wilson Tolstoy	—
1989	Lindsay Clarke The Chymical Wedding	James Hamilton-Paterson Gerontius	Hugh Scott Why Weeps the Brogan	Michael Donaghy Shibboleth	Richard Holmes Coleridge: Early Visions	—
1990	Nicholas Mosley Hopeful Monsters	Hanif Kureishi Il Budda delle periferie	Peter Dickinson AK	Paul Durcan Daddy, Daddy	Ann Thwaite AA Milne – His Life	—
1991	Jane Gardam The Queen of the Tambourine	Gordon Burn Alma Cogan	Diana Hendry Harvey Angell	Michael Longley Gorse Fires	John Richardson A Life of Picasso	—
1992	Alasdair Gray Poor Things	Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing!	Gillian Cross Il caso del grande elefante	Tony Harrison The Gaze of the Gorgon	Victoria Glendinning Trollope	—
1993	Joan Brady Theory of War	Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes	Anne Fine Flour Babies	Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time	Andrew Motion Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life	—
1994	William Trevor Felicia's Journey	Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory	Geraldine McCaughrean Gold Dust	James Fenton Out of Danger	Brenda Maddox D H Lawrence: The Married Man	—
1995	Salman Rushdie L'ultimo sospiro del Moro	Kate Atkinson Behind the Scenes at the Museum	Michael Morpurgo The Wreck of the Zanzibar	Bernard O'Donoghue Gunpowder	Roy Jenkins Gladstone	—
1996	Beryl Bainbridge Ognuno per sé	John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasure	Anne Fine The Tulip Touch	Seamus Heaney The Spirit Level	Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cranmer: A Life	—
1997	Jim Crace Quarantine	Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale	Andrew Norriss Aquila	Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid	Graham Robb Victor Hugo	—
1998	Justin Cartwright Leading the Cheers	Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland	David Almond Skellig	Ted Hughes Birthday Letters	Amanda Foreman Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	—	Libro dell'anno postumo
1999	Rose Tremain Music and Silence	Tim Lott White City Blue	J.K. Rowling Harry Potter e il prigioniero di Azkaban	Seamus Heaney Beowulf	David Cairns Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness	—
2000	Matthew Kneale Il passeggero inglese	Zadie Smith Denti bianchi	Jamila Gavin Coram Boy	John Burnside The Asylum Dance	Lorna Sage Bad Blood – A Memoir	—
2001	Patrick Neate Twelve Bar Blues	Sid Smith Something Like A House	Philip Pullman Il cannocchiale d'ambra	Selima Hill Bunny	Diana Souhami Selkirk's Island	—
2002	Michael Frayn Spies	Norman Lebrecht The Song of Names	Hilary McKay L'angelo di Saffy	Paul Farley The Ice Age	Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self	—
2003	Mark Haddon Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte	DBC Pierre Vernon God Little	David Almond L'uomo che mangiava il fuoco	Don Paterson Landing Light	DJ Taylor Orwell: The Life	—
2004	Andrea Levy Small Island	Susan Fletcher Eve Green	Geraldine McCaughrean Not the End of the World	Michael Symmons Roberts Corpus	John Guy My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots	—
2005	Ali Smith Voci fuori campo	Tash Aw The Harmony Silk Factory	Kate Thompson The New Policeman	Christopher Logue Cold Calls	Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master	—
2006	William Boyd Inquietudine	Stef Penney La tenerezza dei lupi	Linda Newbery Set in Stone	John Haynes Letter to Patience	Brian Thompson Keeping Mum	—
2007	Alison Louise Kennedy Day	Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost	Ann Kelley The Bower Bird	Jean Sprackland Tilt	Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin	—
2008	Sebastian Barry Il segreto	Sadie Jones Il bambino del fiume	Michelle Magorian Just Henry	Adam Foulds The Broken Word	Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End	—
2009	Colm Tóibín Brooklyn	Raphael Selbourne Beauty	Patrick Ness The Ask and the Answer	Christopher Reid A Scattering	Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius	—
2010	Maggie O'Farrell La mano che teneva la mia	Kishwar Desai Witness the Night	Jason Wallace Out of Shadows	Jo Shapcott Della mutabilità	Edmund de Waal Un'eredità di avorio e ambra	—
2011	Andrew Miller Pure	Christie Watson Un cielo pieno di lucciole	Moira Young Dark Eden	Carol Ann Duffy The Bees	Matthew Hollis Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas	—
2012	Hilary Mantel Anna Bolena, una questione di famiglia	Francesca Segal La cugina americana	Sally Gardner Maggot Moon	Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul	Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot Dotter of Her Father's Eyes	Avril Joy Millie and Bird
2013	Kate Atkinson Vita dopo vita	Nathan Filer The Shock of the Fall	Chris Riddell Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse	Michael Symmons Roberts Drysalter	Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Pike	Angela Readman The Keeper of the Jackalopes
2014	Ali Smith How to Be Both	Emma Healey Elizabeth è scomparsa	Kate Saunders Five Children on the Western Front	Jonathan Edwards My Family and Other Superheroes	Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk	Zoe Gilbert Fishskin, Hareskin
2015	Kate Atkinson Un dio in rovina	Andrew Michael Hurley Loney	Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree	Don Paterson 40 Sonnets	Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature	Danny Murphy Rogey
2016	Sebastian Barry Days Without End	Francis Spufford Golden Hill	Brian Conaghan The Bombs That Brought Us Together	Alice Oswald Falling Awake	Keggie Carew Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory	Jess Kidd Dirty Little Fishes
2017	Jon McGregor Bacino 13	Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant sta benissimo	Katherine Rundell L'esploratore	Helen Dunmore Inside the Wave	Rebecca Stott In the Days of Rain	—	Libro dell'anno postumo
2018	Sally Rooney Persone normali	Stuart Turton Le sette morti di Evelyn Hardcastle	Hilary McKay The Skylarks' War	J. O. Morgan Assurances	Bart van Es La ragazza cancellata	—	[10]
2019	Jonathan Coe Middle England	Sara Collins The Confessions of Frannie Langton	Jasbinder Bilan Asha & the Spirit Bird	Mary Jean Chan Flèche	Jack Fairweather Volontario ad Auschwitz	—	[11][12]
2020	Monique Roffey La sirena di Black Conch	Ingrid Persaud Love After Love	Natasha Farrant Voyage of the Sparrowhawk	Eavan Boland The Historians	Lee Lawrence The Louder I Will Sing	—	[13][14]
2021	Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground	Caleb Azumah Nelson Mare aperto	Manjeet Maan The Crossing	Hannah Lowe The kids: l'arte d'insegnare	John Preston Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell	—	[15][16]
Anno	Romanzo	Romanzo d'esordio	Libro per ragazzi	Poesia	Biografia	Raccolta di racconti	Note
"—" non assegnato quest'anno --- In grassetto i vincitori del "Libro dell'anno"