Brenda costa biography award

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    Costa Book Award for Biography

    Year Author Title Subject Result Ref. 1971Michael MeyerHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright and theatre director Winner 1972James Pope-HennessyAnthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope (1815–1882), English novelist of the Victorian period Winner 1973John WilsonCB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-BannermanSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman(1836–1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 Winner 1974Andrew BoylePoor, Dear Brendan: The Quest for Brendan BrackenBrendan Bracken (1901–1958), Irish-born businessman and British politician Winner 1975Helen CorkeIn Our InfancyHelen Corke (1882–1978), English writer and schoolteacher Winner 1976Winifred GerinElizabeth GaskellElizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), English writer Winner 1977Nigel NicolsonMary CurzonMary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston(1870–1906), British noble, Vicereine

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    Costa Book Awards

    Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron bygd John PrestonBiography2021The Crossing bygd Manjeet MannChildren's Book2021Open vatten by Caleb Azumah NelsonFirst Novel2021Unsettled Ground by Claire FullerNovel2021The Kids by Hannah LowePoetry2021The Louder I Will Sing bygd Lee LawrenceBiography2020Voyage of the Sparrowhawk bygd Natasha FarrantChildren's Book2020Love After Love bygd Ingrid PersaudFirst Novel2020The Mermaid of Black Conch bygd Monique RoffeyNovel2020The Historians: Poems by Eavan BolandPoetry2020The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack FairweatherBiography2019Asha & the Spirit Bird bygd Jasbinder BilanChildren's Book2019The Confessions of Frannie Langton bygd Sara CollinsFirst Novel2019Middle England by Jonathan CoeNovel2019Flèche bygd Mary jean ChanPo

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    Costa Book Awards

    Year Award Notes & Refs NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort story1971 Gerda Charles
    The Destiny Waltz— — Geoffrey Hill
    Mercian HymnsMichael Meyer
    Henrik Ibsen— 1972 Susan Hill
    The Bird of Night— Rumer Godden
    The Diddakoi— James Pope-Hennessy
    Anthony Trollope— 1973 Shiva Naipaul
    The Chip-Chip Gatherers— Alan Aldridge and William Plomer
    The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast— John Wilson
    CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman— 1974 Iris Murdoch
    The Sacred and Profane Love MachineClaire Tomalin
    The Life and Death of Mary WollstonecraftRussell Hoban and Quentin Blake
    How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
    Jill Paton Walsh
    The Emperor's Winding Sheet— Andrew Boyle
    Poor Dear Brendan— 1975 William McIlvanney
    DochertyRuth Spalding
    The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke— — Helen Corke
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