ABA announces inaugural lifetime achievement award

The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has created a new Lifetime Achievement in Bookselling Award for “an individual who has given extraordinary and sustained service to bookselling in Australia”.

According to the ABA, the award “honours someone whose dedication to books, readers, and to their community has helped shape the culture of bookselling itself” and will recognise “a bookseller who has shown up year after year with passion and generosity, who has built something lasting in their community, championed books through changing times, and made their bookshop a safe haven and a special place”.

The award is open to any bookseller, from owner to floor staff, who has “dedicated many years of their working life to the industry and whose contribution extends beyond commercial success to meaningful community impact”.

Nominations close 4 May.

The winners of the ABA bookselling and Book of the Year awards will be announced at the ABA conference in Canberra on 14 June.

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