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The 14th Australian Book Industry Awards were announced in Sydney with Graeme Simsion’s novel The Rosie Project winning the Book of the Year award.
Other winners included The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, for International Book of the Year and Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, who won Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
The 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards go to: General Fiction Book of the Year: THE ROSIE PROJECT by Graeme Simsion (Text Publishing)
Literary Fiction Book of the Year: BURIAL RITES by Hannah Kent (Macmillan)
General Non-fiction Book of the Year: THE STALKING OF JULIA GILLARD by Kerry-Anne Walsh (Allen & Unwin)
Illustrated Book of the Year: I QUIT SUGAR by Sarah Wilson (Macmillan)
Biography of the Year: THE CROSSROAD by Mark Donaldson, VC (Macmillan)
Book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years): THE 39-STOREY TREEHOUSE by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton (Macmillan)
Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years): WEIRDOby Anh Do (Scholastic Press)
International Book of the Year: THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton (Allen & Unwin)
Book of the Year: THE ROSIE PROJECT by Graeme Simsion (Text Publishing)

Industry award winners are:
  Publisher of the Year: Penguin Australia
Small Publisher of the Year: Text Publishing
Independent Book Retailer of the Year: JOINT WINNERS: Pages & Pages Booksellers and Readings
Online Book Retailer of the Year: Booktopia
National Book Retailer of the Year: Dymocks
Innovation Award: Pages & Pages Booksellers
John Dean