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.

Last verified 2026-06-10 · Sources: Wikipedia (Female) + Wikipedia (Male) + APA

Who has won the most Audie narrator awards?

Katherine Kellgren and Simon Vance lead with 4 narrator-category wins each. Counting Audiobook of the Year narration credits, the all-time leaderboard:

Narrator	Narrator-category wins	Total Audie credits here	Years
Katherine Kellgren	4	44	2008, 2008, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2010, 2010, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2014, 2014, 2014, 2014, 2014, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2017, 2018
Simon Vance	2	30	2006, 2007, 2008, 2008, 2010, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2013, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2016, 2017, 2017, 2017, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2023, 2024, 2024
Bahni Turpin	2	28	2010, 2011, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2017, 2017, 2018, 2018, 2018, 2019, 2019, 2019, 2020, 2020, 2021, 2021, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2023, 2024, 2024, 2026
Barbara Rosenblat	3	24	1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2010, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2024
Jim Dale	4	15	2000, 2001, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2008, 2009, 2009, 2018, 2019, 2020
Edoardo Ballerini	2	14	2012, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2014, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2026, 2026
Frank Muller	2	6	1997, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2002, 2003

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.