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Front Row: Dante's Divine Comedy 700 years on with Katya Adler; Costa Book Awards category winners

04/01/2021

Dante's Divine Comedy 700 years on with Katya Adler; Costa Book Awards category winners

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Dante's Divine Comedy 700 years on with Katya Adler; Costa Book Awards category winners

Katya Adler on Dante; Costa category winners announced; Costa Novel winner interview.

The winners of the Costa Book Awards categories are announced; the Costa Novel winner discusses their winning book; Katya Adler on her passion for Dante's Divine Comedy.

Suzannah Lipscomb, Chair of Judges for the Costa Book Awards 2020, joins us to reveal exclusively the winners in each of category: Novel, Children’s, Poetry, Biography and Debut Novel.  This is followed by an interview with the winner of the Best Novel category.

Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy 7 centuries ago but - like all great literature – it still speaks to us in today’s world.  Katya Adler, the BBC's Europe Editor and lover of all things Italian is a fan of the epic poem and has made a 3 part series for Radio 4. She discusses what she's set out ot explore and who she's done that with.

Presenter: John Wilson 
Producer: Hilary Dunn 
SM: Donald MacDonald

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