2011 Costa Book Awards
The shortlists were announced on 16 November 2011.[1] The winners in each category will be announced in January 2012.
Book of the Year edit
Winner:
- TBD
Children's Book edit
Winner:
- Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Shortlist:
- Martyn Bedford, Flip
- Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat
- Lissa Evans Small, Change for Stuart
First Novel edit
Winner:
- Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
Shortlist:
- Kevin Barry, City of Bohane
- Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days
- Kerry Young, Pao
Novel edit
Winner:
Shortlist:
- Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
- John Burnside, A Summer of Drowning
- Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
Biography edit
Winner:
- Matthew Hollis, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Shortlist:
- Julia Blackburn, Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village
- Patrick Cockburn & Henry Cockburn, Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story
- Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens: A Life
Poetry edit
Winner:
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees
Shortlist:
- David Harsent, Night
- Jackie Kay, Fiere
- Sean O’Brien, November