British Book Awards 2019 Winners

Sally rooney has beaten michelle obama to book of the year with her second novel normal people at the british book awards.

British book awards 2019 winners. 2019 lee child. Please note 2020 entries have now been delayed due to the current situation the awards will be presented at a glittering event on monday 9 november 2020 at the de vere grand connaught rooms in london. In 2017 the british book industry awards were renamed as the british book awards after it acquired the national book awards from agile marketing.

Digital spy s publisher hearst uk has revealed the winners for its big book awards 2019 highlighting the finest emerging fiction and non fiction titles in uk publishing. Award winners author of the year. For the 2019 awards each.

All books published from 1 july 2019 until 26 june 2020 are eligible for entry in this year s awards. It is with enormous pleasure that we present the winners of the british book awards or nibbies led by candice carty williams s dazzling novel queenie which scooped both the coveted book of the year award as well as debut book of the year. Entries open for the british book awards 2021 11 dec 2020 including two new awards categories designer of the year and the pageturner award for popular fiction titles across all formats.

P roducers of the british book awards are pointing out that this year s shortlists have a particularly strong international streak from the prix goncourt franco moroccan author leila slimani to ireland s sally rooney and the runaway bestselling american former first lady michelle obama. It is known as the nibbies because of the golden nib shaped trophy given to winners. 2020 bernardine evaristo.

Check out all the book of the year winners in the 2019 british book awards aka the nibbies brought to you by the bookseller.