Winners of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association, were celebrated at BEA. For a full list of winners and finalists, click here.
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The Audio Publishers Association announced this year's Audie Award winners last night. Classic novels took top honors, with Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (read by Colin Firth, Audible) named Audiobook of the Year and Bram Stoker's Dracula (multi-voiced production, Audible) being honored for Distinguished Achievement in Production. Other winners included:
Biography/memoir: The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton and Marlene Bernstein Samuels, read by Wanda McCaddon (Tantor Media)
Business/educational: Spy the Lie by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero and Don Tennant, read by Fred Berman (Macmillan Audio)
Children, ages 8-12: Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani, read by the authors (Brilliance Audio)
Children, ages up to 8: The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Adjoa Andoh (Listening Library)
Classic: Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, read by Charlton Griffin (Audio Connoisseur)
Fantasy: Anita by Keith Roberts, read by Nicola Barber (Audible)
Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, read by Claire Danes (Audible)
History: The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman, read by Dan John Miller (Tantor Media)
Humor: I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern, read by Sean Schemmel (HarperAudio)
Literary Fiction: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, read by Simon Vance (Macmillan Audio)
Mystery: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny, read by Ralph Cosham (Macmillan Audio)
Nonfiction: Breasts by Florence Williams, read by Kate Reading (Tantor Media)
Romance: The Witness by Nora Roberts, read by Julia Whelan (Brilliance Audio)
Science fiction: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, read by Emily Rankin (Random House Audio)
Short stories: Astray by Emma Donoghue, read by Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren and Dion Graham (Hachette Audio)
Teens: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, read by Kate Rudd (Brilliance Audio)
Thrillers/Suspense: Red, White and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth, read by Bronson Pinchot (Blackstone Audio)
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Mozambican author Mia Couto has won the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature, awarded annually by the Portuguese Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Foundation) and the Brazilian Departamento Nacional do Livro (National Book Department), honoring Lusophone writers whose work has "contributed to the enrichment of the literary and cultural heritage of the Portuguese language." The prize has an award of €100,000 (about $129,470).
Mia Couto's most recent work to appear in English is The Tuner of Silences, translated by David Brookshaw, published by Biblioasis in February. Six of Couto's 25 books of fiction, essays and poems have been translated into English.