The South Bank & Costa Awards Ceremonies
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
It’s a big night for awards tonight with both the Costa and the Southbank award ceremonies in London. Man Booker shortlisted ‘The Little Stranger’ by Sarah Waters and Adam Foulds’ ‘The Quickening Maze’ are both nominees for the 2010 and last ever (the South Bank Show has been pulled due to budget constraints) South Bank literature awards along with Peter Akinti’s ‘Forest Gate’ (which is also shortlisted for The Times Breakthrough Award).
The Costa award category winners were announced on January 6th and are as follows. Each of these picks up £5,000 and the book of the year, which will be announced tonight, wins a further £25,000.
2009 Costa Novel Award Winner
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
2009 Costa First Novel Award Winner
Raphael Selbourne - Beauty
2009 Costa Biography Award Winner
Graham Farmelo - The Strangest Man
2009 Costa Poetry Award Winner
Christopher Reid- A Scattering
2009 Costa Children’s Book Award Winner
Patrick Ness - The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, Book Two)