The shortlists for the 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards have been released. The winners will be announced in Sydney on 23 June 2009.
Independent Bookseller of the Year
NSW/ACT - Gleebooks
Qld - Riverbend Books & Teahouse
SA/NT - Imprints Booksellers
Tas - Fullers Bookshop Hobart
VIC - Readings Books Music Film Carlton
WA - Bookcaffe
Bookseller Marketing Campaign of the Year
Avid Reader, for Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung
Avid Reader, for Wild Tea Cosies by Loani Prior
Pages & Pages Booksellers Mosman, for The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Readings Books Music Film Carlton, for The Boat by Nam Le
Robinson's Bookshop, for Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Book of the Year
Breath by Tim Winton (Penguin Australia)
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
The Boat by Nam Le (Penguin Australia)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper (Penguin Australia)
Newcomer of the Year (debut writer)
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (Macmillan Publishers Australia)
I Dream of Magda by Stefan Laszczuk (Allen & Unwin)
Never Say Die by Chris O'Brien (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
The Boat by Nam Le (Penguin Australia)
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A.J. Mackinnon (Black Inc.)
Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2009
Breath by Tim Winton (Penguin Australia)
The Boat by Nam Le (Penguin Australia)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville (The Text Publishing Company)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
The Spare Room by Helen Garner (The Text Publishing Company)
General Fiction Book of the Year
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (Macmillan Publishers Australia)
All Together Now by Monica McInerney (Penguin Australia)
How To Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson (Penguin Australia)
The Build Up by Phillip Gwynne (Macmillan Publishers Australia)
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (Allen & Unwin)
Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Dragon Dawn by Carole Wilkinson (Black Dog Books)
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta (Penguin Australia)
Home and Away by John Marsden, illustrated by Matt Ottley (Hachette Australia)
Pip: The Story of Olive by Kim Kane (Allen & Unwin)
Book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years)
Enigma written & illustrated by Graeme Base (Penguin Australia)
Possum and Wattle: My Big Book of Australian Words written & illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft, (Little Hare Books)
Sunday Chutney written & illustrated by Aaron Blabey (Penguin Australia)
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes written by Mem Fox, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Penguin Australia)
The Dog on the Tuckerbox written by Corinne Fenton, illustrated by Peter Couldthorpe, (Black Dog Books)
General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
1788 by David Hill (Random House Australia)
Life in His Hands by Susan Wyndham (Macmillan Publishers Australia)
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper (Penguin Australia)
The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A.J. Mackinnon (Black Inc.)
What's Happening to Our Girls by Maggie Hamilton (Penguin Australia)
Biography of the Year
I am Melba by Ann Blainey (Black Inc.)
Never Say Die by Chris O'Brien (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe (HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy (Penguin Australia)
The Man Who Owns the News by Michael Wolff (Random House Australia)
Illustrated Book of the Year
A Brush with Birds by Penny Olsen (National Library of Australia)
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
The Artist's Lunch by Alice McCormick & Sarah Rhodes, (Murdoch Books)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Michel Streich (Allen & Unwin)
Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye edited by Margo Neale (National Museum of Australia)
International Success of the Year
HarperCollins Publishers, for Hammer of God by Karen Miller
Penguin Australia, for various Sonya Hartnett titles
Random House Australia, for The Floods by Colin Thompson
The Text Publishing Company, for The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Text Publishing Company, for Addition by Toni Jordan
Marketing Campaign of the Year
Allen & Unwin, for Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Allen & Unwin, for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Penguin Australia, for Breath by Tim Winton
Penguin Australia, for Popular Penguins by various authors
Random House Australia, for Occy by Mark Occhilupo & Tim Baker
Distributor of the Year
Alliance Distribution Services
Harper Entertainment Distribution Services
Hinkler Books
Random House Australia
United Book Distributors
Publisher of the Year
Allen & Unwin
Hachette Australia
Penguin Australia
Random House Australia
The Text Publishing Company
Small Publisher of the Year
Black Dog Books
Black Inc.
Giramondo Publishing Company
University of Queensland Press
Wakefield Press
