Which English writer won more Costa Book Awards, Kate Atkinson or J. B. Priestley?
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Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson, MBE (born 20 December 1951) is an award-winning English writer. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 and, under its new name the Costa Book Awards, in 2013 and 2015 in the Novels category.
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J. B. Priestley John Boynton "J. B." Priestley, OM ( ; 13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
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Kate Bassett Kate Bassett (born 11 February 1967) is a British journalist who writes for "The Times" newspaper as a theatre critic.
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Kate De Goldi Kate De Goldi (née Kathleen De Goldi 1959) is a New Zealand writer who has received both the 2011 Margaret Mahy Award and the 2011 Young Readers’ Award Corine Literature Prize, She is known for children's literature and has also won awards for Short story writing. She is of mixed Irish and Italian ancestry.
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Kate Duignan Katherine (Kate) Duignan (see Clan O Duibhgeannain) (born 1974) is a New Zealand novelist.
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Kate Greenaway Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was a successful Victorian children's book illustrator and writer whose work influenced the children's style of the day. She studied graphic design and art between 1858 and 1869 and embarked on a career of designing greeting cards. In the late 1870s Greenaway initiated a collaboration with printer and engraver [[Edmund Evans] which would last for two decades. With fellow illustrators [[Walter Crane]] and [[Randolph Caldecott]], the work Greenaway produced for Evans revolutionized the children's book book market.
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Catherine Dunne (writer) Catherine Dunne (born 1954) is an Irish writer. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher. In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for "The Things We Know", which was published in Italy as "Quel che ora sappiamo".
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Kate Constable Kate Constable (born 1966) is an Australian author. Her first novel was "The Singer of All Songs", the first in the "Chanters of Tremaris" trilogy. It was later followed by "The Waterless Sea" and "The Tenth Power".
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2000 Whitbread Awards The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in 2000.
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Human Croquet Human Croquet is the second novel of Kate Atkinson. The book covers the experiences of Isobel Fairfax, including her occasional bouts of time-travelling, while setting out the legacy of a 300-year-old family curse.
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Avril Joy Avril M. Joy is a British author whose short story "Millie and Bird" won the Costa Short Story Award in the 2012 Costa Book Awards.
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Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (born 2 March 1962) is an Irish writer and illustrator best known for children's novels. She has won 10 CBI Book of the Year Awards (formerly Bisto Awards), including 4 awards for Book of the Year.
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Kathryn Fox Kathryn Fox (born 1966) is an award-winning Australian writer, public speaker and medical practitioner. She is one of Australia's most popular authors and her crime novels in the Anya Crichton series received multiple awards, nominations and international acclaim. In 2015, she followed up with "Private Sydney", a thriller co-written with the world's best-selling author, James Patterson.
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Kate Bottley Kate Bottley (born 19 February 1975) is an English journalist, media presenter, reality television star and Church of England priest in North Nottinghamshire. She appears frequently on British radio and television as well as in newspapers.
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Fiona Pitt-Kethley Fiona Pitt-Kethley (born 21 November 1954) is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, and moved to Spain in 2002 with her husband, former British chess champion James Plaskett and their son, Alexander.
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John Copley (producer) John Michael Harold Copley (born 12 June 1933), CBE is a British theatre and opera producer.
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2015 Costa Book Awards The Costa Book Awards (before 2006 known as the Whitbread Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 2015.
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Brian Kiteley Brian Kiteley is an American novelist, and writing teacher.
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Joan Grant Joan Marshall Grant Kelsey (London, 12 April 1907 – 3 February 1989) was an English author of historical novels and reincarnationist.
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Kate Muir Kate Muir is a Scottish novelist, screenwriter and critic. She was chief film critic of "The Times" for seven years, and is the author of three novels.
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Sophie Atkinson Sophie Atkinson (28 November 1876 – 5 May 1972), born Sophia Mildred Atkinson, was an English watercolour landscape painter and illustrator.
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Terry Deary William Terence "Terry" Deary (born 3 January 1946) is a British children's author of over 200 books, selling over 25 million copies in over 40 languages, best known as the writer of the "Horrible Histories" series. Since 1994 he has been one of Britain's best-selling authors. In 2012 he was the tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and was voted Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author Of The 20th Century by "Books for Keeps" magazine.