Costa Book Awards

costa book awards 2015

Question: Costa Novel prize 2015 is awarded for which book?

(a) A God in Ruins
(b) Life After Life
(c) How to be both
(d) The Loney

Ans (a)

Related facts:

  • On January 4, 2016 the winners of Costa Book Awards-2015 were announced.
  • British writer Kate Atkinson on 4 January 2016 won the novel-of-the-year prize at Britain’s Costa Book Awards 2015 for the second time in three years.
  • She fetched the award for A God in Ruins, a story of war and its aftermath.
  • With this, Atkinson became the first author to receive the Costa novel prize three times: for A God in Ruins in 2016, Life After Life in 2013 and Behind the Scenes at the Museum in 1995.
  • She was appointed as Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 for services to literature.
  • Other winners of 2015 Costa Book Awards:
  • 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’.
  • About Costa Book Awards:
  • The Costa Book Awards is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious and popular literary prizes.
  • It was established in 1971 as the Whitbread Book Awards. Later in 2006 it was renamed as Costa Book Awards.
  • It recognizes some of the most enjoyable books of the year, written by authors based in the UK and Ireland.
  • The prize has five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book.

Reference:

http://www.costa.co.uk/media/391535/2015awardwinners.pdf

http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-book-awards/