A.L. Kennedy wins Costa
Over in England, Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy has won the Costa Book of the Year Award, worth £25,000. Kennedy won the Costa (the award formerly known as the Whitbread) for Day, about life in postwar Britain. Last year’s winner, Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, was set in Canada and had a Canadian publisher, Penguin Canada. There’s a Canuck connection for Day, too: House of Anansi Press has Canadian rights to the book, which they published last August, and Kennedy appeared at the firm’s 40th birthday bash last October.
