Audie Best Narrator awards: every winner, 1998–2023
The Audie Awards honored individual narration through two categories — Best Female Narrator and Best Male Narrator (named "Solo Narration" before 2016). Both were retired after 2023 and replaced by Fiction Narrator and Non-Fiction Narrator categories. This is the complete sourced winner record for both.
Who has won the most Audie narrator awards?
Simon Vance and Katherine Kellgren lead with 2 narrator-category wins each. Counting Audiobook of the Year narration credits, the all-time leaderboard:
| Narrator | Narrator-category wins | Total Audie credits here | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Vance | 2 | 7 | 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
| Katherine Kellgren | 4 | 4 | 2009, 2013, 2014, 2016 |
| Jim Dale | 4 | 4 | 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008 |
| Bahni Turpin | 2 | 3 | 2015, 2018, 2019 |
| Barbara Rosenblat | 3 | 3 | 2000, 2003, 2004 |
| Edoardo Ballerini | 2 | 3 | 2013, 2018, 2019 |
| Frank Muller | 2 | 2 | 2002, 2003 |
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Best Female Narrator — all winners (1998–2023)
| Year | Narrator | Audiobook | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Rosamund Pike | The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan |
| 2022 | Deepti Gupta | The Parted Earth | Anjali Enjeti |
| 2021 | Robin Miles | The City We Became | N. K. Jemisin |
| 2020 | Marin Ireland | Nothing to See Here | Kevin Wilson |
| 2019 | Julia Whelan | Educated | Tara Westover |
| 2018 | Bahni Turpin | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
| 2017 | Tavia Gilbert | Be Frank with Me | Julia Claiborne Johnson |
| 2016 | Katherine Kellgren | Wild Rover No More | L. A. Meyer |
| 2015 | Bahni Turpin | Yellow Crocus | Laila Ibrahim |
| 2014 | Katherine Kellgren | The Twelve Clues of Christmas | Rhys Bowen |
| 2013 | Katherine Kellgren | The Boy in the Suitcase | Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis |
| 2012 | Rosalyn Landor | The Winter Sea | Susanna Kearsley |
| 2011 | Alfre Woodard | Glorious | Bernice McFadden |
| 2010 | Jenna Lamia | The Chosen One | Carol Lynch Williams |
| 2009 | Katherine Kellgren | Curse of the Blue Tattoo | L. A. Meyer |
| 2008 | Lorelei King | Tallgrass | Sandra Dallas |
| 2007 | Annie Potts | Telegraph Days | Larry McMurtry |
| 2006 | Davina Porter | A Breath of Snow and Ashes | Diana Gabaldon |
| 2005 | Lisette Lecat | The Full Cupboard of Life | Alexander McCall Smith |
| 2004 | Barbara Rosenblat | The Nazi Officer's Wife | Edith Hahn Beer |
| 2003 | Barbara Rosenblat | Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood | Kate Simon |
| 2002 | Dearbhla Molloy | My Dream of You | Nuala O'Faolain |
| 2001 | Ruby Dee | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| 2000 | Barbara Rosenblat | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding |
| 1999 | Miriam Margolyes | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| 1998 | Carole Boyd | Land Girls | Angela Huth |
Best Male Narrator — all winners (1998–2023)
| Year | Narrator | Audiobook | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Seth Numrich | Fairy Tale | Stephen King |
| 2022 | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
| 2021 | Laurence Fishburne | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X & Alex Haley |
| 2020 | Robert Bathurst | Kingdom of the Blind | Louise Penny |
| 2019 | Edoardo Ballerini | Watchers | Dean Koontz |
| 2018 | Trevor Noah | Born a Crime | Trevor Noah |
| 2017 | Simon Vance | Jerusalem | Alan Moore |
| 2016 | George Guidall | Gabriel Allon: The English Spy | Daniel Silva |
| 2015 | Bronson Pinchot | The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw | Christopher Healy |
| 2014 | David Pittu | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt |
| 2013 | Edoardo Ballerini | Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter |
| 2012 | Simon Vance | The King's Speech | Mark Logue & Peter Conradi |
| 2011 | Alan Cumming | Zorgamazoo | Robert Paul Weston |
| 2010 | Charlton Griffin | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 2009 | John Rafter Lee | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| 2008 | Jim Dale | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J. K. Rowling |
| 2007 | Jim Dale | Peter and the Shadow Thieves | Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson |
| 2006 | William Hootkins | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| 2005 | Jim Dale | Peter and the Starcatchers | Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson |
| 2004 | Will Patton | Last Car to Elysian Fields | James Lee Burke |
| 2003 | Frank Muller | Tishomingo Blues | Elmore Leonard |
| 2002 | Frank Muller | Coldheart Canyon | Clive Barker |
| 2001 | Jim Dale | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling |
| 2000 | Michael York | The Fencing Master | Arturo Perez-Reverte |
| 1999 | Harlan Ellison | City of Darkness | Ben Bova |
| 1998 | Ron Silver | American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
Why did these categories end?
After the 2023 ceremony the Audio Publishers Association disestablished the gendered narrator categories and replaced them from 2024 with Fiction Narrator and Non-Fiction Narrator awards. Winners of the new categories will be added to this index once verified.
See also: Audiobook of the Year — every winner · methodology.