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Costa Coffee has announced the Costa Book Awards 2013 winner in the Novel category.
The winner is Kate Atkinson, who won the award for her eighth novel, Life After Life, 20 years after winning the Whitbread Book of the Year for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Kate will now go on to compete with the winners of four other categories – First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book – for the 2013 Costa Book of the Year.
The winner, selected by a panel of judges chaired by Rose Tremain CBE, and comprising authors and category judges John Burnside, Matt Cain, Anne de Courcy, Emma Kennedy and Gerard Woodward joined by Natascha McElhone, Richard Osman and Sharleen Spiteri, will be announced at an awards ceremony hosted by presenter and broadcaster Penny Smith at Quaglino’s in central London on Tuesday 28th January 2014.The winner of the Costa Short Story Award – voted for by the general public and now in its second year – will also be announced at the awards ceremony. Voting is open until Friday 17th January until which time the identity of the authors remains anonymous.
Congratulations, Kate!