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The
Costa Book Awards started life in 1971 as the Whitbread
Literary Awards.
From 1985 they were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006, when
Costa Coffee took over ownership - the year that both Costa and the Book
Awards celebrated their 35th anniversary.
Since 1971, the awards have rewarded a wide range of excellent books and
authors across all genres.
Since the introduction of the overall Book of the Year Award in 1985,
it was won seven times by a novel, three times by a first novel, five
times by a biography, five times by a collection of poetry and once by
a children's book, up to 2010.
The
Costa Book Awards is unique in many ways, not least in having five categories:
First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book.
The winner in each category receives £5,000. One of these five books
is selected as the overall winner of the Book of the Year and receives
a further £30,000, making a total prize fund of £55,000.
It is the only prize which places children's books alongside adult books
in this way, according to the promoters.
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