King of So­ca, the Bi­og­ra­phy of Machel Mon­tano writ­ten by his moth­er Eliz­a­beth Mon­tano has won top ho­n­ours in the 14th An­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Book Awards.

The awards fea­ture pub­li­ca­tions sub­mit­ted from in­ter­na­tion­al or­ga­ni­za­tions which in­clude Pen­guin Ran­dom House, Wi­ley, Ha­chette Books, Mc­Graw-Hill, Rout­ledge, Row­man & Lit­tle­field, Tor Books, HCI Press, Hay House, among oth­ers and hun­dreds of na­tion­al along with in­ter­na­tion­al In­de­pen­dent Hous­es and au­thors that con­tribute to this out­stand­ing Com­pe­ti­tion. King of So­ca was self-pub­lished by EESM, Eliz­a­beth Mon­tano.

An­nounced in Los An­ge­les in June 2023 by the Amer­i­can Book Fest King of So­ca has won the Best In­te­ri­or De­sign cat­e­go­ry.

KOS was al­so among the fi­nal­ist in four oth­er cat­e­gories Best Cov­er De­sign Non­fic­tion, Bi­og­ra­phy Gen­er­al, Non­fic­tion Cross Genre and Per­form­ing Arts, Film, The­atre, Dance and Mu­sic.

De­signed by lo­cal De­sign Com­pa­ny Prak­tis De­sign Ltd, which is head­ed by Mar­lon Dar­beau and Blayne Clarke, KOS was print­ed by Of­fice Au­thor­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

This will be the sec­ond In­ter­na­tion­al Award for KOS com­ing af­ter the an­nounce­ment of an Ad­dy Award for Best of Print and Over­all Best in Show. The book has al­so won the Gold AD­DY for Book De­sign and Sil­ver for Pub­li­ca­tion Cov­er De­sign.