Irish author Colm Toibin has scooped the Costa novel of the year award. His novel Brooklyn, 'a sparely written account of a young woman's account of emigration from 1950s Ireland to New York', won the category prize and will now go ahead to compete in the overall Costa book prize.As announced in th Guardian, the winner of the poetry category was Christopher Reid. Graham Farmelo took the biography award, Patrick Ness won in the children's category, and the first novel award was given to Raphael Selbourne.
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