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The Diverse Book Awards 2024

Celebrating 5 years!

Created by bestselling, award-winning author Abiola Bello and award-winning publicist Helen Lewis. We want to highlight the best of the diverse voices published in the UK & Ireland both traditionally and self-published. We believe there's a need to showcase the talent of marginalised voices, so we came up with The Diverse Book Awards to open a space where the spotlight is on them. 

Celebrate FIVE YEARS at Waterstones Piccadilly on January 23rd 6-8pm with this years winners and past winners  Book here

The 2024 DBA Winners

The 2024 Readers' Choice Winners

The Malorie Blackman Impact Award Winner

Free posters to display fantastic diverse books! Have a look!

Schools, libraries and hospitals can request free books. OPEN

 

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Five years of The Diverse Book Awards

 

Kia Abdullah

Marie-Claire Amuah

Natasha Bowen

Sue Cheung

Benjamin Dean

Jessica George

Tammye Huf

Jenny Ireland

Danielle Jawando

Nathanael Lessore

Ayisha Malik

Manjeet Mann

Erika Meza

Onjali Q. Rauf

Rashmi Sirdeshpande and Ruchi Mhasane

J.T. Williams and Simone Douglas

Benjamin Zephaniah 

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Our 2024 Winners

Best Picture Book

To The Other Side by Erika Meza

(Hodder Children's Book)

 

​Best Children's Book

Steady For This by Nathanael Lessore

(Hot Key Books)

Best Young Adult Book

The First Move by Jenny Ireland 

(Penguin Random House Children's)

 

Best Adult Book 

Mamme by Jessica George 

(Hodder and Stoughton)

 

Sponsors 

The Diverse Book Awards Adult Sponsor

Peters

The Diverse Book Awards YA Sponsor

Book Clubs in Schools 

 

The Diverse Book Awards Children's Sponsor

Madeleine Milburn Agency

 

The Diverse Book Awards Supporting Sponsors

Renaissance Learning - Children's

Write Up - YA

Heath Books 

 

Readers' Choice Award - Children's

Sparx Reader

The Malorie Blackman Impact Award

Literally PR

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