Eddie Betts, Ash Barty and Paul Callaghan win at Australian Book Industry Awards

Joseph Guenzler
Joseph Guenzler Published May 26, 2023 at 2.10pm (AWST)

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) for 2023 announced their winners, with a number of Indigenous authors and publishers adding an award to their belt.

My Dream Time by Ash Barty (HarperCollins Publishers) was awarded Biography Book of the Year for its deeply personal content, perfectly timed with Barty's retirement from tennis

Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year was won by Paul Callaghan for The Dreaming Path (Pantera Press), for deftly publishing culturally sensitive and protected material into a mass market

Eddie Betts' The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Simon & Schuster Australia) was awarded Social Impact Book of the Year, a new category for 2023, for a powerful story that is both personal and political.

In the category of business awards, Allen and Unwin were the recipients of the publisher of the year award, while the University of Queensland earned the title of small publisher of the year for the third consecutive year.

Big W claimed the prestigious book retailer of the year award and Matilda Bookshop was recognised at the bookshop of the year.

Jane Palfreyman from Allen & Unwin received the inaugural commissioning editor of the year award, and Johann Hari's Stolen Focus published by Bloomsbury was honored with the inaugural marketing strategy of the year award.

The coveted prizes for illustrated book of the year and overall book of the year went to Nagi Maehashi's RecipeTin Eats: Dinner, published by Macmillan. The cookbook impressed both the judges and the readers alike.

The ABIA winners in each category can be found in full here.

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