An Audie Award (or Audie) is an annual award given by the American Audio Publishers Association for audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. Since 1996, the nominees have been announced in February, and the winners announced at a gala banquet held in May, usually during the BookExpo America fair. The Audies are sometimes promoted as “the Oscars of the audiobook industry” and serve as a way to promote audiobooks.[1][2]
Awards are given in about thirty categories. Some of the awards relate to types of writing, including abridged and unabridged fiction and non-fiction, and such genres as romance, fantasy and mystery; other awards recognize excellence in different styles of narration and production, such as multi-voiced performance and production values.
The Audio Publishers Association presented the 2020 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinaNewction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.”
