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EDITOR OF THE YEAR


OVERVIEW As in the Designer and Rights Professional of the Year categories, there is no overlap between the 2021 and 2022 contenders for this award—a sign of  editorial talent into publishing. In fact, just one of the nine has been shortlisted in this category since it was created, but they all delivered commercial success and critical acclaim for their lists last year.


FEDERICO ANDORNINO W&N’s publishing director rein- vigorated his division in 2021, turbo-charging the careers of Clare Chambers and Charlotte Wood and making Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss a hardback hit of the year. “Everything you would want from an editor—patient, empathetic and clear-eyed,” said one top agent.


GEORGINA LAYCOCK Georgina Laycock has led the revitalisation of John Murray’s non-fiction over the past nine years. She was at the heart of the success of Miriam Margolyes’ memoir, ramped up the science list, and TCM sales topped £4m. “Her work ethic, discretion and energy are extraordinary,” said one author.


IAN MARSHALL Ian Marshall, deputy publish- ing director for non-fiction at Simon & Schuster, had maybe his best year to date. Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller was a publishing event, and he had agenda-setting books in Peter Oborne’s The Assault on Truth and Michael Holding’s Why We Kneel, How We Rise.


ARABELLA PIKE As she has for two decades, HarperCollins’ publishing direc- tor handled some of the year’s most influential books. She was also a staunch defender of her authors against legal threats to books including Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People. “Peerless for her fierce support for books,” said one author.


SAMANTHA SMITH Samantha Smith flies the flag for children’s books as publisher of fiction, non- fiction and picture books at Macmillan. Her achievements with Marcus Rashford included You Are a Champion and his eponymous book club, and she oversaw another phenomenal year for Julia Donaldson.


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ALEXANDRA PRINGLE Alexandra Pringle has been at the core of Bloomsbury’s success since 1999. Now executive publisher, two of her long-term authors won major awards last year—Susanna Clarke the Women’s Prize, and Abdulrazak Gurnah the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her author care is second to none.


JUDGES' VERDICT


JUST ONE OF THE NINE HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED IN THIS CATEGORY BEFORE, BUT THEY ALL DELIVERED COMMERCIAL SUCCESS


LOUISE HAINES Louise Haines, non-fiction publishing director at Fourth Estate, shows how good editors’ work goes beyond the words: her success with Anna Jones’ One and Nigel Slater’s A Cook’s Book displayed all her flair for design and packaging. An agent called her “collabora- tive, humorous and generous”.


SHARMAINE LOVEGROVE For Dialogue Books founder Sharmaine Lovegrove, the past year has been a game-changer. Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half was her stand-out book and she broke several débuts. She is at the vanguard of inclu- sivity work, helping to steer the Black Writers’ Guild and Hachette’s Changing the Story.


PHOEBE MORGAN Editorial director Phoebe Morgan gave HarperCollins a superb 2021 in crime and thriller fiction. She pushed Abigail Dean’s début Girl A to sales of nearly half a million, lured talent to her lists from other publishers, and launched the Killing It contest for undis- covered crime writers.


BREAKOUT HIT WAS EDITED BY


MEG MASONS FEDERICO ANDORNINO


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