The Australian Indie Book Award 2009

from Jayne Wasmuth of The Leading Edge Group

It’s official! The category winners for The Indie Book Award 2009 have been announced. These four great books form the shortlist for the Book of the Year Award, to be announced on 28 September 2009.

Congratulations to the authors of each of our category winners:

Fiction – Jasper Jones, by Craig Silvey

Debut Fiction – The Virtuoso by Sonia Orchard

Non-Fiction – The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper

Children’s Book – Pearl Verses the World by Sally Murphy, illustrated by Heather Potter

Judges comments will be available later today at available at http://www.indies.com.au/.