Sebastian Barry, Hisham Matar en Kate Tempest op shortlists Costa Book Awards

De Costa Book Awards ('one of the UK's most prestigious and popular literary prizes and recognises some of the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland') kennen een vijftal categorieën - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - met elk een winnaar, waaruit een jaarwinnaar wordt gekozen. De afgelopen jaren wonnen Frances Hardinge, Helen MacDonald, Nathan Filer en Hilary Mantel de overall-prijs. 3 januari 2017 worden de category-winnaars bekendgemaakt, 31 januari het Costa Book of the Year.

Novel Award

• Sebastian Barry, Days Without End
• Maggie O'Farrell, This Must Be the Place
• Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent
• Rose Tremain, The Gustav Sonata

First Novel Award

• Susan Beale, The Good Guy
• Kit de Waal, My Name is Leon
• Guinevere Glasfurd, The Words in My Hand
• Francis Spufford, Golden Hill

Biography Award

• Keggie Carew, Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory
• John Guy, Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
• Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between [lees een fragment uit de Nederlandse vertaling]
• Sylvia Patterson, I’m Not With the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music

Poetry Award

• Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sunshine
• Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
• Denise Riley, Say Something Back
• Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos

Children’s Book Award

• Brian Conaghan, The Bombs That Brought Us Together
• Patrice Lawrence, Orangeboy
• Francesca Simon, The Monstrous Child
• Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster