Booker winner Mantel up for Costa awards

Booker winner Hilary Mantel up for Costa awards
Booker winner Hilary Mantel up for Costa awards
 
 

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

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