Booker winner Mantel up for Costa awards
Booker winner Hilary Mantel up for Costa awards
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Wednesday, 25, Nov 2009 09:28
By Lewis Bazley.
Wolf Hall, the Booker Prize-winning novel by Hilary Mantel, has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards.
Mantel's novel, set in Henry VIII's Tudor court, is up against Penelope Lively, Colm Tóibín and the little-known Christopher Nicholson - for The Elephant Keeper - for the Costa novel award.
This year's Costa shortlists include two posthumous nominations - for Simon Gray in the biography category and Siobhan Dowd in the children's book shortlist - while veteran broadcaster Clive James is nominated in the poetry category for his reminiscences of his Australian childhood.
The winners in each of the five categories will be announced on January 5th, before the overall book of the year winner is revealed at a London ceremony on January 26th.
The shortlists for the 2009 Costa Book Awards are:
Novel award:
Penelope Lively for Family Album
Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall
Christopher Nicholson for The Elephant Keeper
Colm Tóibín for Brooklyn
First novel award:
Rachel Heath for The Finest Type of English Womanhood
Peter Murphy for John the Revelator
Raphael Selbourne for Beauty
Ali Shaw for The Girl with Glass Feet
Biography award:
Graham Farmelo for The Strangest Man The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
William Fiennes for The Music Room
Simon Gray for Coda
Caroline Moorehead for Dancing to the Precipice
Poetry award:
Clive James for Angels Over Elsinore
Katharine Kilalea for One Eye'd Leigh
Ruth Padel for Darwin: A Life in Poems
Christopher Reid for A Scattering
Children's book award
Siobhan Dowd for Solace of the Road
Mary Hoffman for Troubadour
Patrick Ness for The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking: Book Two)
Anna Perera for Guantanamo Boy