Update: May 18: the winners are in bold.
Allen & Unwin won Publisher of the Year and Text won the Small Publisher Award.
The 2012 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Association) Finalists were announced today.
The literary fiction finalists are:
- Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, on my TBR
- All That I Am by Anna Funder, see my review
- Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears, see my review
- Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett, see my review
- The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman, see my review
There are too many awards to list them all here, but also of interest are:
- Autumn Laing along with Lovesong both by Alex Miller, shortlisted for International Success of the Year, see my reviews here and here.
- Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville, has been shortlisted for General Fiction Book of the year, see my review
Newcomer of the Year
- Favel Parrett for Past the Shallows, and
- Rohan Wilson’s The Roving Party (inexplicably left off the Miles Franklin longlist!) see my review.
Amongst the Non-Fiction nominations are
- After Words by Paul Keating in the General Non Ficton category
- Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley in the Biography category.
To see the full list of nominations, visit Bookseller and Publisher’s website.
Congratulations to all the authors, publishers and booksellers!
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