Taking many in the British publishing community by surprise, Costa Book Awards is discontinuing its long-running program. The Costa Book Awards, a program of Costa Coffee, have been operating for 50 years, and were last heard from on February 1, when it was announced that Hannah Lowe, a poet and memoirist, had won the £30,000 Costa “Book of the Year” purse (US$36,963), for her book of sonnets, The Kids (Bloodaxe Books). The Costa Book Awards were established in 1971 as the Whitbread Book Awards. More from Publishing Perspectives on the Costa Book Awards is here, and more on international book and publishing awards overall is here. More from us on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on international book publishing is here.

Source: CNN June 11, 2022 05:05 UTC