Kuang, Rundell, Khan and Tregoning win 2024 Indie Book Awards

The Fiction classification victor is Yellowface (The District Press) by Rebecca F Kuang, which likewise won Fiction Publication of the Year 2024 at the British Book Honors, while Katherine Rundell has actually been granted the Non-Fiction Reward for The Golden Mole: and Various Other Vanishing Prize (Faber & Faber).

Champion of the Kid’s Fiction category is Safiyyah’s Battle (Andersen Press) by Hiba Noor Khan, described as a remarkable unique set in occupied Paris which discovers a girl participated in hazardous resistance job after her father is arrested by the Nazis. The Picture Book prize mosted likely to The Dress in the Window (Oxford University Press) by Robert Tregoning and highlighted by Pippa Curnick. It was described by the courts as “an uplifting, stylish tale of vanity, acceptance and welcoming your true self, told in elegant rhyme”.

Rundell claimed of her win: “This is such a substantial joy– thank you a lot! I owe so much of my profession to the promoting of independent bookshops: to the generosity, imagination and interest of indie booksellers. Indie bookshops are, by far, my favorite type of store: a place where you can go in trying to find an idea, or an option, or even a state of mind, and be met the expertise and subtlety of booksellers, and the ideal publication. This is a genuine honour. Thanks.”

Pippa Curnick, illustrator of The Dress in the Home window, said she is “definitely thrilled” the book won the award, adding: “It fills me with joy to recognize that it is being obtained with such love, and to have the support of independent bookshops implies so, so much.”

The honors are curated by independent bookshops, and run as part of Independent Bookshop Week (IBW), which is organised by the Booksellers Organization from 15th-22nd June. They celebrate the very best paperbacks of the summertime across fiction, non-fiction, youngsters’s fiction and image publications.

“I take this to show that we are all aggravated with a publishing ecological community that commodifies identity, that limits depiction to one or two laborious examples, that tells marginalised writers the only thing interesting concerning them is their pain. Allow’s joys to the booksellers and visitors and publication fans that are chasing stories not to validate our own assumptions, but because we care about what somebody not like us has to say.”

The Picture Book prize went to The Outfit in the Home Window (Oxford College Press) by Robert Tregoning and illustrated by Pippa Curnick. Indie booksellers are the backbones of this sector, the ones getting books right into viewers’ hands, and I am eternally thankful for your assistance. I can’t say thanks to the Indie Book Awards sufficient for bringing also extra glimmer to the event,” he stated.

“I really hope that The Dress in the Home window captures a few of the magic that indie shops offer neighborhoods. I also really hope that, like a number of the tales I create, it helps people to feel seen, to really feel recognized and to feel well known! I can’t thank the Indie Book Awards sufficient for bringing even more sparkle to the event,” he claimed.

Robert Tregoning claimed it was “no coincidence” that The Wear the Window’s love at-first-sight moment takes place outside an independent shop, “which sits on a high road, wonderfully brought to life by Pippa Curnick and lined with other independent stores”.

Hiba Noor Khan said: “Winning the Indie Publication Award still has actually not sunk in at all for me … and I’m not sure that it ever will! This is such an unique award, independent bookshops are like treasures, both for writers as well as for the broader areas they nurture. To have actually been elected as the victor by indie booksellers is simply the most tremendous honour, one that I will treasure for the remainder of my life. I am so thankful to each and every one of you who recognised Safiyyah together with all that she stands for. Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. For all your assistance and support, and for pressing this publication of hope right into the hands of readers. I am blown away, astonished, for life grateful and overjoyed!”

Kuang said: “What an honour to have actually won this award! Indie booksellers are the backbones of this market, the ones getting books into visitors’ hands, and I am permanently happy for your support. It means a great deal to me that Yellowface, which is so crucial concerning the means we pick and talk concerning publications, has actually obtained such a warm welcome.

Indie bookshops are, by far, my favourite kind of shop: an area where you can go in looking for an idea, or an option, or even a state of mind, and be satisfied with the understanding and subtlety of booksellers, and the ideal publication. Hiba Noor Khan claimed: “Winning the Indie Publication Honor still has actually not sunk in at all for me … and I’m not certain that it ever before will!

Talya Baldwin, illustrator of The Golden Mole, added: “I’m happy that The Golden Mole has won this great honor. Katherine is a significantly gifted author and it was an actual advantage to be component of the task. I have actually loved working on it and learning more about each of the animals, and will certainly never consider a swift in fairly the same way once more.” Faber has now introduced an Independent Bookshop unique version of The Golden Mole.