Novelist Sally Rooney has won the Costa Novel Award for her second novel, Normal People, becoming the youngest recipient of the award, the most prestigious award for a novel open only to British and Irish authors.
The Costa Book Awards recognises books in five categories – first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children’s book – published in the last year. One of this year’s five winning books will be named 2018 Costa Book of the Year in London on January 29th.
The four other category winners, announced on Monday are: Stuart Turton takes the First Novel Award for his debut, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, a high-concept crime caper; Oxford Professor Bart van Es wins the Biography Award for his memoir The Cut Out Girl, a moving story of war, families, loss, survival and friendship; Scottish poet J.O. Morgan wins the Poetry Award for Assurances, a book-length war-poem in part inspired by his father who was a former RAF officer involved in maintaining Britain’s Airborne Nuclear Deterrent; and the Children’s Book Award goes to Hilary McKay for The Skylark’s War, an evocative novel of family and friendship in wartime.
Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. She is the youngest winner of the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Her first novel, Conversations with Friends, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. She is the editor of The Stinging Fly.
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