Former President Barack Obama, science-fiction author Andy Weir, and suspense novelist Stephen King were among the winners of the 2022 Audie Awards, presented last Friday by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). The full list of recipients—which you can find here—was announced during a virtual ceremony.
Obama scored top honors in the Best Narration by the Author(s) category for his reading of his 2021 memoir, Promised Land (Penguin Random House Audio). Weir was victorious among Science Fiction nominees with Project Hail Mary, narrated by Ray Porter (Audible Studios). Project Hail Mary was also named as Audiobook of the Year.
Meanwhile, Stephen King’s latest Hard Case Crime standalone yarn, Later, narrated by Seth Numrich (Simon & Schuster Audio), beat out four other finalists in the Mystery category: The Bucket List, by Peter Mohlin and Peter Nystrom, narrated by Dion Graham (Recorded Books); Murder in Old Bombay, by Nev March, narrated by Vikas Adam (Macmillan Audio); The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie, narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, with John Lee (Blackstone/Skyboat Media); and The Midnight Man, by Caroline Mitchell, narrated by Emma Gregory and Elliot Fitzpatrick (Embla).
Finally, in the Thriller/Suspense field, Mary Kubica’s Local Woman Missing—narrated by Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, and Jesse Vilinsky (HarperAudio)—triumphed over a quartet of Audie competitors: The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave, narrated by Rebecca Lowman (Simon & Schuster Audio); Never Far Away, by Michael Koryta, narrated by Robert Petkoff (Hachette Audio); The Night She Disappeared, by Lisa Jewell, narrated by Joanne Froggatt (Simon & Schuster Audio); and Razorblade Tears, by S.A. Cosby, narrated by Adam Lazarre-White (Macmillan Audio).
Congratulations to all of this year’s APA contestants!
FOLLOW-UP: Mystery Fanfare identifies one additional mystery-fiction-related prize: this year’s Audie Award for Best Audio Drama went to Sherlock Holmes—The Seamstress of Peckham Rye, by Jonathan Barnes, performed by Nicholas Briggs, Richard Earl, Lucy Briggs-Owen, India Fisher, James Joyce, Anjella MacKintosh, Glen McCready, and Mark Elstob (Big Finish Productions).
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
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