British writer Kate Atkinson on 4 January 2016 won the
novel-of-the-year prize at Britain's Costa Book Awards 2015 for the second time
in three years. She fetched the award for A God in Ruins, a
story of war and
its aftermath.
With this, Atkinson became the first author to receive the
Costa novel prize three times: for A God in Ruins in 2016, Life After Life in
2013 and Behind the Scenes at the Museum in 1995.
List of Costa Book Awards 2015:
- Novel Award — Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
- Poetry Award — Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets
- Children's Book Award — Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree Blue ribbon
- First Novel Award — Andrew Michael Hurley, The Loney
- Biography Award — Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature
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