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Costa Book Awards
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Costa Book Awards

Annual literary prizes open to writers in the UK and Ireland. Nominations are in five categories: novel, first novel, autobiography/biography, children's books, and poetry, each receiving £5,000. The overall winner receives a further £25,000. The awards, which are administered by the Booksellers Association, were founded in 1971 by Whitbread, a brewery. Costa, a UK coffee company, took over the prizes in 2006.

The original awards were three prizes of £1,500 each for a biography, a novel, and a volume of poetry. Categories have varied in subsequent years; children's books replaced poetry 1972.

The first overall winner in 1984 was the poet Douglas Dunn for his Elegies.
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