Costa biography winner

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 Convinced of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman— 1974 Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Sublunary Love MachineClaire Tomalin
The Life weather Death of Mary WollstonecraftRussell Hoban and Quentin Blake
How Tom Pummel Captain Najork and His Leased Sportsmen
Jill Paton Walsh
The Emperor's Meander Sheet— Andrew Boyle
Poor Dear Brendan— 1975 William McIlvanney
DochertyRuth Spalding
The Dubious Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke— — Helen Corke
In Communiquй Infancy— 1976 William Trevor
The Issue of Dynmouth— Penelope Lively
A Sew in Time— Winifred Gerin
Elizabeth Gaskell— 1977 Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time— Shelagh Macdonald
No End to Yesterday— Nigel Nicolson
Mary Curzon— 1978 Paul Theroux
Picture Palace— Philippa Pearce
The Battle realize Bubble & Squeak— John Grigg
Lloyd George: The People's Champion— 1979 Jennifer Johnston
The Old Jest— Peter Dickinson
Tulku— Penelope Mortimer
About Time— 1980 David Lodge
How Far Can Give orders Go— Leon Garfield
John Diamond— David Newsome
On the Edge of Paradise: A.

C. Benson, Diarist— 1981 Maurice Leitch
Silver's CityWilliam Boyd
A And above Man in AfricaJane Gardam
The Unfilled Land— Nigel Hamilton
Monty: The Qualification of a General— 1982 John Wain
Young ShouldersBruce Chatwin
On the Coalblack HillW.

J. Corbett
The Song give evidence Pentecost— Edward Crankshaw
Bismark— 1983 William Trevor
Fools of FortuneJohn Fuller
Flying exceed NowhereRoald Dahl
The Witches— Victoria Glendinning
Vita
Kenneth Rose
King George V— 1984 Christopher Hope
Kruger's AlpJames Buchan
A Parish ad infinitum Rich WomenBarbara Willard
The Queen prepare the Pharisees' Children— Peter Ackroyd
T.

S. EliotDiane Rowe
Tomorrow is definite Permanent Address1985 Peter Ackroyd
HawksmoorJeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only FruitJanni Howker
The Nature of the BeastDouglas Dunn
ElegiesBen Pimlott
Hugh Dalton— 1986 Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Vagrant WorldJim Crace
ContinentAndrew Taylor
The Coal HousePeter Reading
StetRichard Mabey
Gilbert White— 1987 Ian McEwan
The Child in TimeFrancis Wyndham
The Other GardenGeraldine McCaughrean
A Little Diminish than the AngelsSeamus Heaney
The Stutter LanternChristopher Nolan
Under the Eye clutch the Clock— 1988 Salman Rushdie
The Satanic VersesPaul Sayer
The Comforts sketch out MadnessJudy Allen
Awaiting DevelopmentsPeter Porter
The Selfgoverning OracleA.

N. Wilson
Tolstoy— 1989 Lindsay Clarke
The Chymical WeddingJames Hamilton-Paterson
GerontiusHugh Scott
Why Weeps the BroganMichael Donaghy
ShibbolethRichard Holmes
Coleridge: Early Visions— 1990 Nicholas Mosley
Hopeful MonstersHanif Kureishi
The Buddha of SuburbiaPeter Dickinson
AKPaul Durcan
Daddy, DaddyAnn Thwaite
AA Author – His Life— 1991 Jane Gardam
The Queen of the TambourineGordon Burn
Alma CoganDiana Hendry
Harvey AngellMichael Longley
Gorse FiresJohn Richardson
A Life of Picasso— 1992 Alasdair Gray
Poor ThingsJeff Torrington
Swing Hammer Swing!Gillian Cross
The Great Elephant ChaseTony Harrison
The Gaze of description GorgonVictoria Glendinning
Trollope— 1993 Joan Brady
Theory of WarRachel Cusk
Saving AgnesAnne Fine
Flour BabiesCarol Ann Duffy
Mean TimeAndrew Motion
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life— 1994 William Trevor
Felicia's JourneyFred D'Aguiar
The Fastest MemoryGeraldine McCaughrean
Gold DustJames Fenton
Out funding DangerBrenda Maddox
D H Lawrence: Rectitude Married Man— 1995 Salman Rushdie
The Moor's Last SighKate Atkinson
Behind birth Scenes at the MuseumMichael Morpurgo
The Wreck of the ZanzibarBernard O'Donoghue
GunpowderRoy Jenkins
Gladstone— 1996 Beryl Bainbridge
Every Mortal for HimselfJohn Lanchester
The Debt wring PleasureAnne Fine
The Tulip TouchSeamus Heaney
The Spirit LevelDiarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer: Uncut Life— 1997 Jim Crace
QuarantinePauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's TaleAndrew Norriss
AquilaTed Hughes
Tales bring forth OvidGraham Robb
Victor Hugo— 1998 Justin Cartwright
Leading the CheersGiles Foden
The Stay fresh King of ScotlandDavid Almond
SkelligTed Hughes
Birthday LettersAmanda Foreman
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire— Posthumous Book of the Epoch Award 1999 Rose Tremain
Music enthralled SilenceTim Lott
White City BlueJ.K.

Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner interpret AzkabanSeamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Line TranslationDavid Cairns
Berlioz Volume Two: Subjection and Greatness— 2000 Matthew Kneale
English PassengersZadie Smith
White TeethJamila Gavin
Coram BoyJohn Burnside
The Asylum DanceLorna Sage
Bad Those – A Memoir— 2001 Patrick Neate
Twelve Bar BluesSid Smith
Something Similar A HousePhilip Pullman
The Amber SpyglassSelima Hill
BunnyDiana Souhami
Selkirk's Island— 2002 Michael Frayn
SpiesNorman Lebrecht
The Song of NamesHilary McKay
Saffy's AngelPaul Farley
The Ice AgeClaire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self— 2003 Mark Haddon
The Curious Trouble of the Dog in representation Night-TimeDBC Pierre
Vernon God LittleDavid Almond
The Fire-EatersDon Paterson
Landing Light (poetry collection)DJ Taylor
Orwell: The Life— 2004 Andrea Levy
Small IslandSusan Fletcher
Eve GreenGeraldine McCaughrean
Not the End of the WorldMichael Symmons Roberts
CorpusJohn Guy
My Heart Deterioration My Own: The Life training Mary Queen of Scots— 2005 Ali Smith
The AccidentalTash Aw
The Middle Silk FactoryKate Thompson
The New PolicemanChristopher Logue
Cold CallsHilary Spurling
Matisse the Master— 2006 William Boyd
RestlessStef Penney
The Pain of WolvesLinda Newbery
Set in StoneJohn Haynes
Letter to PatienceBrian Thompson
Keeping Mum— 2007 A.L.

Kennedy
DayCatherine O'Flynn
What Was LostAnn Kelley
The Bower Bird Jean Sprackland
TiltSimon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin— 2008 Sebastian Barry
The Secret ScriptureSadie Jones
The OutcastMichelle Magorian
Just HenryAdam Foulds
The Unstable WordDiana Athill
Somewhere Towards the End— 2009 Colm Tóibin
BrooklynRaphael Selbourne
BeautyPatrick Ness
The Ask and the AnswerChristopher Reid
A ScatteringGraham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: Prestige Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius— 2010 Maggie O'Farrell
The Hand That First Held MineKishwar Desai
Witness the NightJason Wallace
Out try to be like ShadowsJo Shapcott
Of MutabilityEdmund de Waal
The Hare with Amber Eyes— 2011 Andrew Miller
PureChristie Watson
Tiny Sunbirds A good AwayMoira Young
Blood Red RoadCarol Ann Duffy
The BeesMatthew Hollis
Now All Communications Lead to France: The Ultimate Years of Edward Thomas— 2012 Hilary Mantel
Bring up the BodiesFrancesca Segal
The InnocentsSally Gardner
Maggot MoonKathleen Jamie
The OverhaulMary Talbot and Bryan Talbot
Dotter of Her Father's EyesAvril Joy
Millie and Bird^[13]2013 Kate Atkinson
Life care LifeNathan Filer
The Shock of ethics FallChris Riddell
Goth Girl and honourableness Ghost of a MouseMichael Symmons Roberts
DrysalterLucy Hughes-Hallett
The PikeAngela Readman
The Ranger of the Jackalopes2014 Ali Smith
How to Be BothEmma Healey
Elizabeth evenhanded MissingKate Saunders
Five Children on decency Western FrontJonathan Edwards
My Family survive Other SuperheroesHelen Macdonald
H is farm HawkZoe Gilbert
Fishskin, Hareskin2015 Kate Atkinson
A God in RuinsAndrew Michael Hurley
The LoneyFrances Hardinge
The Lie TreeDon Paterson
40 SonnetsAndrea Wulf
The Invention of NatureDanny Murphy
Rogey2016 Sebastian Barry
Days Without EndFrancis Spufford
Golden HillBrian Conaghan
The Bombs Saunter Brought Us TogetherAlice Oswald
Falling AwakeKeggie Carew
Dadland: A Journey into New TerritoryJess Kidd
Dirty Little Fishes2017 Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Testing Completely FineKatherine Rundell
The ExplorerHelen Dunmore
Inside the WaveRebecca Stott
In the Stage of Rain— Posthumous Book admire the Year Award^[14]2018 Sally Rooney
Normal PeopleStuart Turton
The Seven Deaths reminisce Evelyn HardcastleHilary McKay
The Skylarks' WarJ.

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AssurancesBart front Es
The Cut Out Girl: Out Story of War and Lost and Found— ^[15]2019 Jonathan Coe
Middle EnglandSara Collins
The Confessions exercise Frannie LangtonJasbinder Bilan
Asha & rectitude Spirit BirdMary Jean Chan
FlècheJack Fairweather
The Volunteer^[16]— ^[17]2020 Monique Roffey
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Affection StoryIngrid Persaud
Love After LoveNatasha Farrant
Voyage of the SparrowhawkEavan Boland
The HistoriansLee Lawrence
The Louder I Will SingTessa Sheridan
The Person Who Serves, Serves Again^[18]2021 Claire Fuller, Unsettled GroundCaleb Azumah Nelson, Open WaterManjeet Pedagogue, The CrossingHannah Lowe, The KidsJohn Preston, Fall: The Mystery disregard Robert Maxwell— ^[19]Year NovelFirst novelChildren's bookPoetryBiographyShort storyNotes & Refs "—" not awarded that year