Surrender, written and narrated by Bono (Penguin Random House Audio) won the Audiobook of the Year Award at the 2024 Audie Awards, organized by the Audio Publishers Association and celebrated at a gala event last night in Los Angeles.
In two new categories, replacing the Best Male Narrator and Best Female Narrator categories, Billie Fulford-Brown was awarded the Best Fiction Narrator Award for Hazel Gaynor's The Last Lifeboat (Penguin Random House Audio), and Dion Graham won Best Non-Fiction Narrator Award for Jonathan Eig's King: A Life (Macmillan Audio). To see the winners in all 26 categories, click here.
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A shortlist has been released for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses in the U.K. and Ireland. Each of the shortlisted titles gets an additional £1,000 (about $1,270) to the £500 (about $635) the longlisted books received. The winner will be announced at Foyles Charing Cross Road on April 17 and, as its reward, "will enjoy the glory," the organizers said. This year's shortlisted publishers are:
Boiler House Press for Out of Earth by Sheyla Smanioto, translated by Laura Garmeson & Sophie Lewis
Cassava Republic for Avenues by Train by Farai Mudzingwa
Charco Press for Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry
Scotland Street Press for The Zekameron by Maxim Znak, translated by Jim & Ella Dingley
Tilted Axis Press for The End of August by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles