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2020 ABIA Award Winners
Congratulations to all the writers, artists, publishers and fellow booksellers who took out an Australian Book Industry Award last night.
2020 ABIA HALL OF FAME
Lloyd O’Neil Award for Service to the Australian Book Industry:
Helen Garner
Pixie O’Harris Award for Outstanding Commitment to Children’s Literature:
Erica Wagner
ABIA Book of the Year:
General fiction book of the year:
Bruny by Heather Rose
Literary fiction book of the year:
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
International book of the year:
The Testaments Margaret Atwood
General Non-Fiction:
488 Rules for Life – Kitty Flanagan
Illustrated book of the Year:
The Whole Fish Cookbook – Josh Niland
Audiobook of the year:
No Friend but the Mountains – Behrouz Boochani
Book of the Year (older children):
Welcome to your Period – Yumi Stynes
Book of the Year (younger children):
117 Storey Treehouse – Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Children’s Picture Book of the Year:
Biography of the Year:
When All Is Said and Done – Neal Daniher
Small publishers’ adult book of the year:
Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Small publishers’ children’s book of the year:
Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders & Carol Rossetti
The Matt Richell award for new writer of the year:
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
2020 ABIA BUSINESS AWARD WINNERS
Book Retailer of the Year:
Readings Books
Bookshop of the Year:
Books Kinokuniya
Publisher of the Year:
Allen & Unwin
Small Publisher of the Year:
Magabala Books
Rising Star of the Year
Hazel Lam
