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Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced

Wednesday, 6 March 2024   Books+Publishing
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The longlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced.

The longlisted titles in the first three categories, and the emerging designer category, are:

Best designed commercial fiction cover

  • Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), designed by Darren Holt
  • The Chinese Doll (Ian McBride, self-published), designed by Design by Committee
  • Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U), designed by Alissa Dinallo
  • Search History (Amy Taylor, A&U), designed by Alissa Dinallo
  • Never Look Desperate (Rachel Matthews, Transit Lounge), designed by Design by Committee
  • Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U), designed by Sandy Cull
  • Crushing (Genevieve Novak, HarperCollins), designed by Mietta Yans
  • Bitter & Sweet (Amal Awad, Pantera), designed by Hazel Lam
  • Untethered (Ayesha Inoon, Harlequin), designed by Hazel Lam
  • Funny Ethnics (Shirley Le, Affirm), designed by George Saad
  • 1964 (Michael Buxton, Hardie Grant), designed by Design by Committee



 

Best designed literary fiction/poetry cover

  • Dress Rehearsals (Madison Godfrey, A&U), designed by Allison Colpoys
  • The Terrible Event (David Cohen, Transit Lounge), designed by Design by Committee
  • But the Girl (Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Penguin), designed by Sandy Cull
  • Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo), designed by Jenny Grigg
  • Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo), designed by Mika Tabata
  • The Hummingbird Effect (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner), designed by Design by Committee
  • The Modern (Anna Kate Blair, Scribner), designed by Laura Thomas
  • Gunflower (Laura Jean McKay, Scribe), designed by Laura Thomas
  • Where Light Meets Water (Susan Paterson, S&S), designed by Christa Moffitt
  • Backwaters (Emma Ling Sidnam, Text), designed by Imogen Stubbs
  • The Furphy Anthology 2023 (Hardie Grant), designed by Design by Committee



 

Best designed nonfiction cover

  • The Queen Is Dead (Stan Grant, HarperCollins), designed by Darren Holt
  • The Year My Family Unravelled (Cynthia Dearborn, Affirm),
    designed by Alissa Dinallo
  • ‘Twas a Dark and Stormy Gurgle (John Marsden, self-published), designed by Design by Committee
  • Trump’s Australia (Bruce Wolpe, A&U), designed by Design by Committee
  • The New Rulebook (Chris Cheers, HarperCollins), designed by Mietta Yans
  • A Real Piece of Work (Erin Riley, Viking), designed by George Saad
  • The Shape of Dust (Lamisse Hamouda with Hazem Hamouda, Pantera), designed by George Saad
  • The House That Joy Built (Holly Ringland, Fourth Estate), designed by Hazel Lam
  • Question 7 (Richard Flanagan, Knopf), designed by Adam Laszczuk
  • Aphrodite’s Breath (Susan Johnson, A&U), designed by Louisa Maggio
  • The State of Capitalism (The EReNSEP Writing Collective and Costas Lapavitsas, Verso), designed by Duncan Blachford



 

Deb Brash emerging designer of the year

  • Kait Polkinghorne
  • Susan Le
  • Sasha Beekman.

In their 72nd year, the awards celebrate the ‘best and brightest, most original and beautiful designs of the past year’.

The longlists in all categories can be viewed on the ABDA website.

 

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