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Australian Book Design Awards 2023 longlists announced

Friday, 10 March 2023   Books+Publishing
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The longlists for the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced.

The longlisted titles in the first three categories are:

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover

  • A Brief Affair (Alex Miller, A&U), designed by Sandy Cull
  • The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird (Diane Connell, S&S), designed by Christa Moffitt
  • Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo), designed by Jessica Cruickshank
  • Criminals (James O’Loghlin, Echo), designed by Josh Durham
  • Wildflowers (Peggy Frew, A&U), designed by Louisa Maggio
  • Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph), designed by James Rendall
  • Love and Other Puzzles (Kimberley Allsop, HarperCollins), designed by Mark Campbell
  • All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ), designed by Hazel Lam
  • The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (Holly Ringland, Fourth Estate), designed by Hazel Lam
  • The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant), designed by Akiko Chan
  • Her Fidelity (Katherine Pollock, Vintage), designed by Christa Moffitt
  • No Hard Feelings (Genevieve Novak, HarperCollins), designed by Mietta Yans

Best Designed Literary Fiction/Poetry Cover

  • The Furphy Anthology 2022 (Hardie Grant), designed by Josh Durham
  • Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text), designed by W H Chong
  • Mirabilia (Lisa Gorton, Giramondo), designed by Jenny Grigg
  • Fever (Jonathan Bazzi, Scribe), designed by Allison Colpoys
  • An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (Paula Balla Rosa, A&U), designed by Josh Durham
  • Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette), designed by Sandy Cull
  • Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text), designed by W H Chong
  • The Lovers (Yumma Kassab, Ultimo), designed by Mika Tabata
  • Other Houses (Paddy O’Reilly, Affirm), designed by Sandy Cull
  • Iris (Fiona Kelly McGregor, Picador), designed by Amy Daoud
  • Tiny Uncertain Miracles (Michelle Johnston, Fourth Estate), designed by Hazel Lam
  • Son of Sin (Omar Sakr, Affirm), designed by Amy Daoud

Best Designed Nonfiction Cover

  • The Nerves and their Endings (Jessica Gaitan Johannesson, Scribe), designed by Allison Colpoys
  • Wild Things (Sally Rippin, Hardie Grant), designed by Alissa Dinallo
  • Found, Wanting (Natasha Sholl, Ultimo), designed by Alissa Dinallo
  • It’s a Shame About Ray (Jonathan Seidler, A&U), designed by Josh Durham
  • A Kind of Magic (Anna Spargo-Ryan, Ultimo), designed by Alissa Dinallo
  • Childhood (Shannon Burns, Text), designed by W H Chong
  • The Space Between the Stars (Indira Naidoo, Murdoch Books), designed by Trisha Garner
  • Bold Types: How Australia’s first women journalists blazed a trail (Patricia Clarke, NLA), designed by Nada Backovic
  • Skin Deep (Phillipa McGuinness, Vintage), designed by Adam Laszczuk
  • The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Richard Fidler, ABC), designed by Mark Campbell
  • Don’t Look Away (Danielle Laidley, HarperCollins), designed by George Saad
  • I Didn’t Do The Thing Today (Madeleine Dore, Murdoch Books), designed by Evi O.

In their 71st year, the awards celebrate the ‘best and brightest, most original and beautiful designs of the past year’. The shortlists will be announced in early April with the winners to be announced in June.

To see the longlists in all categories, visit the ABDA website.

 

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