British Book Awards 2024
Przegląd
- Typ: Nagrody Literackie
- Marka: British Book Awards
Wczoraj podczas uroczystej Gali w Grosvenor House w Londynie, przyznano Nagrody British Book Awards 2024.
Już trzeci rok w ramach British Book Awards przyznano nagrodę Freedom to Publish Award (pierwszymi dwoma laureatami byli Arabella Pike i Salman Rushdie). W tym roku zwycięzcą został Grigori Chkhartishvili, piszący jako Boris Akunin. Gruzińsko-rosyjski pisarz powieści historycznych, eseista i tłumacz mieszkający obecnie w Wielkiej Brytanii – krytyk działań i polityki Władimira Putina wobec Ukrainy.
Laureaci nagrody Book Trade Award 2024
Przyznano 17 nagród branżowych:
- Marketing Strategy: Abbie Slater, Sian Richefond, Emily Merrill for Yellowface, HarperCollins UK / The Borough Press
- Publicity Campaign: Etty Eastwood for Ultra-Processed People, Penguin Random House / Cornerstone
- Independent Bookstore: Book-ish, Crickhowell, Wales
- Small Press: Magic Cat Publishing, a children’s publisher
- Academic, Educational, and Professional Publisher: Collins
- Children’s Bookseller: The Children’s Bookshop
- Export Award: Bloomsbury
- Rights Professional: Karen Lawler, Hachette Children’s Group
- Literary Agent: Becky Brown and Norah Perkins, Curtis Brown
- Imprint: Hachette UK / Little, Brown / Piatkus Fiction
- Editor: Kishani Widyaratna, HarperCollins / 4th Estate
- Designer: Jack Smyth, Jack Smyth Design
- Individual Bookseller: Amanda Dunne Fulmer, Halfway Up the Stairs
- Book Retailer: The Children’s Bookshop
- Independent Publisher: Profile Books
- Children’s Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books
- Publisher: Penguin Random House / Ebury
Laureaci nagrody „Książka Roku”
Audiobook Fiction
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, read by Nicola Walker and Louise Brealey, Penguin Random House Audio
Audiobook Nonfiction (supported by Audiobookish)
Strong Female Character written and read by Fern Brady, Hachette UK / Octopus / Brazen
Children’s Fiction (supported by The Week Junior)
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
Children’s Illustrated (supported by Lovereading4kids)
Bunny vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-up by written and illustrated by Jamie Smart, David Fickling Books
Children’s Nonfiction (supported by The Week Junior Science and Nature)
Brilliant Black British History by Atinuke, illustrated by Kingsley Nebechi, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
Crime and Thriller
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, read by Nicola Walker and Louise Brealey, Penguin Random House / Century / Cornerstone
Début Fiction (supported by Spotify)
In Memoriam by Alice Winn, Penguin General / Viking
Discover
Lessons from Our Ancestors by Raksha Dave, illustrated by Kimberlie Clinthorne-Wong (Magic Cat Publishing)
Rebecca F. Kuang, unable to attend the British Book Awards event, sent a greeting from Germany
Fiction (supported by Scala Radio)
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang, HarperCollins / The Borough Press
Note: Rebecca F. Kuang, an American, won the 2023 British Book Award in fiction, as well, in that case for Babel, or the Necessity of Violence from HarperVoyager,
Nonfiction: Lifestyle and Illustrated
Murdle by T. Karber, Profile Books / Souvenir Press
Nonfiction: Narrative
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart, Penguin Random House / Vintage / Jonathan Cape
Pageturner (supported by Stylist)
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Hachette UK / Little, Brown / Piatkus Fiction
Pełna lista nominowanych i zwycięzców tutaj