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January 25th, 2012 
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Last updated at 1:04 AM on 25th January 2012
Winner: Andrew Miller has scooped the Costa Book award at the sixth attempt for his novel Pure
He hasn’t won an award for any of his previous five novels.
But author Andrew Miller proved that persistence pays off by winning the 2011 Costa Book of the Year last night with his novel, Pure, and a cheque for £30,000.
Set in pre-revolutionary Paris in 1785, Pure is the story of a young engineer tasked with emptying the noxious, overflowing Parisian cemetery Les Innocents, and of demolishing its church.
The awards, which recognise the most enjoyable books of the past year by writers based in the UK and Ireland, have five categories – first novel, novel, biography, poetry and children’s book – one of which wins the overall prize.
The other Costa category winners included poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy with The Bees and the odds-on favourite, poet and debut biographer Matthew Hollis for his work Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas.
Geordie Greig, chair of the final judges, said: ‘Pure is a rich and evocative historical novel which engrosses with its vivid portrait of pre-revolutionary France.
‘The qualities of Pure stood out for its memorable gothic tale of morality and mortality.’
Mr Miller, 51, saw off the challenge of bookies’ favourite Matthew Hollis whose biography of poet Edward Thomas was tipped to win.
Speaking to reporters, the novelist said he would spend his prize money on ‘living’.
He said: ‘It’s not as if writers tend to be particularly wealthy people. I certainly have no private income.
‘What money we raise through events like this we pay the mortgage I’m afraid, we live off it.
‘There may be a little frivolity, some nice shoes or something, but basically you live off it’.
Enjoyable: The book is set in pre-revolutionary Paris in 1785 and tells the story of a young engineer tasked with emptying the overflowing Parisian cemetery Les Innocents, and of demolishing its church
He said he was not sure if his next novel would have a historical setting and he would follow the ‘curious path of my own obsessions’.
He said: ‘Writing is a kind of organised dreaming. So we do, we sit in a room and dream up strange places and strange people and set them running.’
Mr Greig added that there had been ‘passionately held views over two books’, adding: ‘It really was a fierce debate and there was quite bitter dissent and argument to find the winner’.
He described Mr Hollis’ Now All Roads Lead To France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas as ‘an incredibly subtle brilliant biography’.
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