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Diverse Book Awards 2026 winners announced in London

The seventh annual Diverse Book Awards honoured Catherine Johnson with an impact award alongside several category winners at Waterstones Piccadilly.

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The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2026 were revealed on October 22, 2026, at Waterstones Piccadilly in London, 25YearsLaterSite.com reported. Author Catherine Johnson received the Malorie Blackman Impact Award during the ceremony. [1]

According to The Bookseller, as cited by 25YearsLaterSite.com, the impact award was given to Catherine Johnson to recognise her extraordinary contribution to diversity, representation, and inclusion in literature. [1]

In the category awards, Asli Jensen won the Young Adult Fiction prize for her debut novel Love on Sight, published by Chicken House, 25YearsLaterSite.com reported. Lola Jaye took the Adult Fiction award for The Manual for Good Wives, published by Pan Macmillan. Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason won the new Adult Non-fiction prize for To Be Young, Gifted and Black, published by OneWorld. [1]

The ceremony marked the seventh edition of the awards, which were founded by author Abiola Bello, 25YearsLaterSite.com reported. The event featured the debut of two new non-fiction prize categories for the 2026 ceremony. [1]

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In short

  • The Diverse Book Awards 2026 winners were announced on October 22, 2026, at Waterstones Piccadilly in London.
  • Catherine Johnson FRSL won the Malorie Blackman Impact Award.
  • Asli Jensen won the YA Fiction category with her debut novel Love on Sight.
  • The event was the seventh edition of the awards founded by Abiola Bello.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Diverse Book Awards 2026: Full Winners List and YA Split25YearsLaterSite.com, 13h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Waterstones unveils shortlist for 2026 Book of the YearThe Bookseller, 16h ago
  3. [3]NIF announces shortlist for 2026 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book PrizeThe Tribune, 1d ago
  4. [4]NIF announces shortlist for 2026 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book PrizeThe Tribune, 1d ago
  5. [5]Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2026 shortlist unveiledThe Bookseller, 14h ago
  6. [6]Waterstones Book of the Year 2026: All 20 of this year's shortlisted titles - including YesteryearThe Scotsman, 15h ago
  7. [7]Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 29, 2026Book Riot, 17h ago

Background

  1. [8]Danielle Jawando on Wikipedia
  2. [9]List of awards and nominations received by Abbott Elementary on Wikipedia
  3. [10]See Ya 'Round on Wikipedia
  4. [11]French Publishers Prepare Full Rights Catalogues Ahead of Frankfurt Book Fair FTMQ Books, 23d ago
  5. [12]Women's Prize Trust reveals judging panels for 2027 awards FTMQ Books, 8d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 12 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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