Diana Reid’s Love & Virtue wins book of the year and literary fiction category at Australian Book Industry Association’s annual awards in Sydney
, Reid said the pandemic scuppered her plans to take the musical she co-wrote and produced – 1984! The Musical! – to the Edinburgh Fringe. Having just finished her studies at Sydney University, she was without a job or income.
The Abias are judged by more than 250 members of the book industry and recognise success in Australian writing, publishing and bookselling. Women writers dominated major categories, with Jacqueline Bublitz’s Before You Knew My Name winning general fiction book of the year, while finance podcaster Victoria Devine won general non-fiction book of the year for She’s on the Money.
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