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| − | |summary= | + | |summary= When I saw Helen Macdonald speak at a nature conference, she recounted a conversation with a Samuel Johnson Prize judge. S/he had remarked that Macdonald's was three books in one: a memoir of grief after her father's unexpected death, a biography of T. H. White, and an account of falconry experiments with Mabel the goshawk. Macdonald quipped that the description made her book sound like washing powder, but it's accurate nonetheless, and explains why the book won the Samuel Johnson Prize (the first memoir to do so) and is shortlisted for the Costa Biography award. |
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Revision as of 09:55, 4 December 2014
The category shortlists were announced on 19 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 5 January: they each won £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) was announced on 27 January 2015.
Novel Award
First Novel Award
Biography Award
Poetry Award The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Cartographer Tries to May a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
Children's Book Award
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