The British Book Awards or Nibbies are awarded to writers in the following categories: audiobooks, children’s fiction, Children’s Illustrated & Non-Fiction, Fiction, Fiction: Crime and Thriller, Fiction: Debut, Non-fiction: Lifestyle, Non-fiction: Narrative, and Pageturner.
This year’s awards features four African writers in different categories. David Olusoga is being shortlisted in the Children’s Illustrated & Non-Fiction for his book Black and British: A short, essential history; Abi Daré for The Girl With the Louding Voice in the Debut Fiction category; Barack Obama for A Promised Land and Me And White Supremacy by Layla F Saad both in the Non-fiction: Narrative.
The British Book Awards or Nibbies were founded by Fred Newman, the founder, editor, and publisher of Publishing News who ran them from 1990–2009. The awards were then acquired by Agile Marketing who renamed it the National Book Awards. However, in 2017, The Bookseller acquired the awards and reverted it to the original British Book Awards or Nibbies.
Previous winners include Bernardine Evaristo, Candice Carty-Williams, and Oyinkan Braithwaite.
The winners of the awards will be revealed on Thursday, May 13, 2021.
Visit here to see other shortlisted books.
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