ABIA
That’s the Australian Book Industry Awards. Gala event from all accounts with the twitterverse tweeting and RTing as myriad awards were announced. We were there (in a virtual sense) and sent some results through @cmisevalff, but in case you weren’t, here are some of particular YA interest:
- We are running out of fingers and toes to count how many awards Melina Marchetta is garnering for Finnikin of the Rock. Here’s another one – ABIA’s Book of the Year for Older Children.
- Shaun Tan is on the winner’s podium again. Tales from Outer Suburbia is ABIA’s Illustrated Book of the Year. How many is that for this creative and weird (in a good way) title?
- And because these are industry awards, we have to mention Penguin’s International Success Award because it has been won for publishing Sonya Hartnett around the world.
At the time of writing ABIA had not posted results on its website, but there is a summary here. Congratulations to all winners.
