Awards & Recognitions

Above: The Empik Awards in Poland
Awards
- Listed as a Waterstones’ Paperback of the Year 2022 (Three Sisters)
- Longlisted for DUBLIN Literary Awards 2021 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Shortlisted for Polish Book of the Year Awards 2020 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2020 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Longlisted for the Nielsen Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2020 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Finalist for Best Fiction at the Audie Awards 2020 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Winner Audie Award for Fiction 2019 (for audio book, read by Richard Armitage) (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Shortlisted for The Bookseller Book of the Year 2019 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Shortlisted for the ABIA’s General Fiction Book of the Year 2019 Australia (Cilka’s Journey)
- Nominee for Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction 2019 (Cilka’s Journey)
- Winner Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year Australia (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Neilsen Gold Bestseller Award 2019 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Apple Book of the Year 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Specsavers Book of the Year 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Wordery Book of the Year 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Eason’s Book of the Year 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Empik Book of the Year 2018 in Poland (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Lubimy Czytać Best Historical Novel of 2018 Awards in Poland (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner Bertrand’s Foreign Fiction Book of the Year 2018 Portugal (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Winner HarperCollins Canada Fan Choice Book of the Year 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Shortlisted for The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year 2019 Australia (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Shortlisted for the ABIA’s General Fiction Book of the Year 2019 Australia (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Debut Book of the Year 2019 in UK (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Shortlisted for the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award 2019 in UK (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Shortlisted for Indie Book Awards 2019 Australia (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Nominated Best Historical Fiction for Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
- Nominated Best Debut Author for Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)

Above: Heather signs copies of The Tattooist of Auschwitz at Booktopia
Stats & Facts – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Over five million books sold worldwide
- Over 1 ½ million Bonnier Zaffre copies sold
- Number 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland
- 24 weeks in the Sunday Times top 10 Hardback Fiction chart
- 27 weeks in the Sunday Times top 10 Paperback Fiction chart
- Number 1 UK bestseller on official fiction paperback list for 17 weeks – went straight to #1 on publication
- TV rights sold to Synchronicity Films for a multi-part, high-end international drama series
- 6 Bestselling Book of 2018 in UK & Australia/New Zealand
- Number 1 in Canada in its debut week and remaining in top 10 for 36 weeks
- 20 weeks at #1 on the New York Times Trade Paperback Fiction list
- 37 weeks in top 4 New York Times Trade Pb Fiction list – since publication
- Number 1 bestseller in South Africa
- 220,000 copies sold in Australia and New Zealand
- Foreign rights sold in 53 territories
- Ireland’s bestselling Novel of the Year 2018
- Debuted at number 1 in Chile
- Number 1 bestseller in Portugal
- Number 1 bestseller in Hungary
- Poland: 200,000 copies in print
- Highest selling novel in 2018 with key Polish bookshop chain Empik
- In the Dutch bestseller list for 17 weeks
- In the Belgian bestseller chart for 55 weeks