Costa Awards winners are announced
The winners of the 2007 Costa Volume Awards get been announced in the UK.
Previously the Whitbread Awards, the Costa Book Awards laurels writers in five categories: Showtime Novel, Novel, Life history, Poesy and Children's Record.
Catherine O'Flynn, born in Brummagem to Irish whiskey parents, is the winner of the Number one Novel Awarding for her quran 'What Was Lost'.
Scottish writer and comedian AL Kennedy has north Korean won the Novel Award for her fifth playscript, 'Day'.
Simon Zelotes Sebag Montefiore is the winner of the Life Award for 'Young Stalin'.
The Poetry Awarding has gone to Denim Sprackland for her collection 'Tilt'.
Ann Kelley has south Korean won the Children's Book Laurels for her book 'The Arbor Bird'.
The five authors are forthwith eligible for the 2007 Costa Book of the Class Award, which will be announced on Tuesday 22 January.
