Winners of the Costa 2021 Book Awards - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book Winners Announced

 

Costa 2021 Children's Winner

Natasha Farrant has won the Costa Children's Book Award with her 12th book, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, which the judges called 'pure heavenly escapism'. 

Costa Category Winners:

Award-winning short story writer Ingrid Persaud scooped the Costa First Novel Award for her 'outstanding' debut novel set in Trinidad, Love After Love.

Writer and memoirist Monique Roffey won the Costa Novel Award category, winning her first major UK literary prize for her seventh book, The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story.

Lee Lawrence, debut writer and son of Brixton gun victim Cherry Groce, won the Costa Biography Award for his 'revelatory' memoir, The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption.

The late Eavan Boland posthumously won the Costa Poetry Award with her final collection, The Historians, described by the judges as having 'some of the finest lines of poetry written this century'.

The Costa Book Awards is the UK book prize open solely to authors resident in the UK and Ireland and which recognises some of the most enjoyable books across five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book - published in the last year.


Since the introduction of the Book of the Year award in 1985, it has been won twelve times by a novel, five times by a first novel, eight times by a biography, eight times by a collection of poetry and twice by a children's book.