"H is for Hawk" memoir scoops Britain's Costa Prize

2015/01/28 00:44:01 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

An academic & #039;s memoir of training a hawk while grieving the death of her father won Britain & #039;s prestigious Costa Book Award on Tuesday. It is the second leading award given to Helen Macdonald & #039;s & quot;H is for Hawk & quot;, after the book became the first ever memoir to win the non-fiction Samuel Johnson Prize in November. Macdonald, 44, a Cambridge University historian and illustrator, said it was an & quot;extraordinary privilege & quot; to have been shortlisted and thanked readers who had shared their stories of grief. Formerly called the Whitbread award, the Costa Book Award was established in 1971 to celebrate British and Irish writing and £30,000 is awarded to the winner ($46,000, 40,000 euros).
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