ABIA 2026 Shortlists & Winners
Australian Book Industry Awards 2026
(The Nile was shortlisted for Book Retailer of the Year!)
2026 ABIA Winners
ABIA Book of the Year 2026
Once I was a Giant by Zeno Sworder
From the award-winning author of My Strange Shrinking Parents comes a luminescent and hopeful tale about our living natural world.
Once I was a Giant is the ABIA Book of the Year & Children’s Picture Book of the Year (ages 0–6) for 2026.
