{"id":286311,"date":"2025-07-23T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286311\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:23:10","slug":"george-robertson-award-2025-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286311\/","title":{"rendered":"George Robertson Award 2025 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThursday, 24 July 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 2025 recipients of the George Robertson Award.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients, chosen by the APA board of directors, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penny Evershed (head of supply chain, S&amp;S)<\/li>\n<li>Philip Kent (university librarian, University of Sydney)<\/li>\n<li>Louise McCall (contracts and rights administrator, Thames &amp; Hudson)<\/li>\n<li>Anna McFarlane (publisher, books for children &amp; young adults, A&amp;U)<\/li>\n<li>Karen McLaughlin (team leader \u2013 operations, HarperCollins)<\/li>\n<li>Louise Stark (CEO, Hachette Australia &amp; Aotearoa NZ)<\/li>\n<li>Cate Sutherland (children\u2019s publisher, Fremantle Press)<\/li>\n<li>Christine Thorne (logistics operative, HarperCollins)<\/li>\n<li>Michael White (head of international publishing, HarperCollins)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Named after the founder of Angus &amp; Robertson, George Robertson, the annual awards recognise long and distinguished service to the Australian publishing industry. Recipients must have worked for over 30 years in the publishing industry; shown respect to others in the industry; been nominated by a past or present employer or colleague who is also an APA member; and either be currently working in the industry or have been retired for less than three years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2024\/03\/28\/249659\/george-robertson-award-2024-winners-announced-changes-to-apa-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last year\u2019s winners<\/a> were announced at the APA AGM, where new committees were also announced.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the George Robertson Award and its recipients is on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishers.asn.au\/Web\/Our-Work\/Events-Awards\/George-Robertson-Awards.aspx?WebsiteKey=61ef17e3-3e25-4cf0-a6e4-8dd55afd4e6a&amp;hkey=724fbc2f-96d8-4f92-bf4a-7fbab2285c29&amp;5f1ce56ee437=1&amp;utm_source=HigherLogic&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter&amp;_zs=RvFwn&amp;_zl=tubd2#5f1ce56ee437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=awards-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 24 July 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 2025 recipients of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[11410,186,29677,29680,29674,17976,3444,29679,29681,77,29676,704,29678,29675,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-author-interviews","11":"tag-book-awards","12":"tag-book-news","13":"tag-book-reviews","14":"tag-books","15":"tag-bookseller-jobs","16":"tag-ebooks","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-library-news","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-publishing-jobs","21":"tag-publishing-news","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114904891877933253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}