Magda Szubanksi has won two awards for her memoir I Can’t Tell You But I Will just months after its release.
The memoir, which came out in September, focused on her role in Australia’s marriage equality campaign while also caring for her dying mother.
This is her second memoir, with the first titled Reckoning released in 2015 and was about her relationship with her father.
The Kath and Kim star took to social media to share her delight for being awarded Booktopia’s Book of the Year, as well as its Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
“I’m so excited and thrilled and chuffed and grateful,” she said.
“Big thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with me.
“Lots of love to all of you.”
Friends and fans took to the comments to congratulate her on the incredible achievement.
“Congratulations on such well-deserved recognition! You are so brave and wonderful to share such a deeply personal story. Love you,” said wildlife warrior Terri Irwin.
“Congratulations! Continuing your exceptional memoir track record,” added former A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw.
One fan wrote: “Loved your writing and you broke me with some passages. Thank you for putting into words some of my experiences of a Scottish mum of their generation.”
The positive update comes after she was inducted into the TV Week Logie Hall of Fame and announced earlier this year that she had finished chemotherapy for stage four mantle cell lymphoma, a rare blood cancer.
The 65-year-old said in a previous interview with 60 minutes that she is “in deep remission” but is not entirely “cured” as the median survival rate for her type of cancer is eight and a half years, but it “could be less or it could be more”.
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