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2007 Borders Original Voices Award Winners
Borders Book Group recently announced the winners of their annual Original Voices Award, which honors "fresh, compelling and ambitious works from new and emerging talents." Nominated by store and corporate office employees and selected by a committee of corporate staff members, the winners in four categories of fiction, nonfiction, children's picture book and young adult/independent reader will receive a cash prize of $5,000.
The winners of the 2007 Borders Original Voices Awards are:
Fiction:
THE RAW SHARK TEXTS by Steven Hall (Cannongate Books)
Nonfiction:
WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin (Little, Brown)
Children's Picture Books:
WOLF! WOLF! by John Rocco (Hyperion Press)
Intermediate/Young Adult Books:
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
For more information about the Borders Voices Award, click here.
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2006 Nominees and Winners
On November 11, 2006, Borders Inc. announced the nominees for the 11th annual Borders Original Voices Awards. The Award --- consisting of a $5,000 cash prize --- recognizes "innovative and ambitious" new books and music from emerging artists, and will be presented in January to one winner in each of five categories.
Finalists for the 2006 Original Voices Awards include:
Fiction:
* THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD by Kevin Brockmeier (Knopf)
PRIDE OF BAGHDAD by Brian Vaughan (Vertigo)
SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS by Marisha Pessl (Viking)
THE STOLEN CHILD by Keith Donohue (Nan Talese)
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen (Algonquin Press)
WINKIE by Clifford Chase (Grove Atlantic)
Nonfiction:
FROM BAGHDAD WITH LOVE by Jay Kopelman (Glone Pequot Press)
THE GOOD GOOD PIG by Sy Montgomery (Ballantine Books)
I WAS A CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS by Bernice Eisenstein (Riverhead)
SELF-MADE MAN by Norah Vincent (Viking Press)
A STRONG WEST WIND by Gail Caldwell (Random House)
* THE WORST HARD TIME by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin)
Children's Picture Books:
ART by Patricia McDonnell (Little, Brown Young Readers)
CHICKEN & CAT by Sara Varon (Scholastic)
DEAR FISH by Chris Gall (Little, Brown Young Readers)
* FANCY NANCY by Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss(HarperCollins Juvenile)
SOUND OF COLORS by Jimmy Liao (Little, Brown Young Readers)
TRUE STORY OF STELLINA by Matteo Pericoli (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Intermediate/Young Adult Books:
BASS ACKWARDS & BELLY UP by Elizabeth Craft (Little, Brown Young Readers)
* DAIRY QUEEN by Catherine Murdock (Houghton Mifflin)
ENDYMION SPRING by Matthew Skelton (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne (David Fickling Books)
SKINNY by Ibi Kaslik (Walker & Co.)
SHADOW THIEVES by Anne Ursu (Atheneum)
(* Indicates Winners)
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2005 Winners
Borders Book Group recently announced the winners of the ninth annual Borders Original Voices Awards, which highlights exceptional emerging writers --- and for the first time, musicians. The winners in five categories of fiction, nonfiction, children's picture book, young adult/independent reader and music will receive a cash prize of $5,000.
The winners of the 2005 Borders Original Voices Awards are:
Fiction:
THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss (Norton, W. W. & Company)
Nonfiction:
FINDING GEORGE ORWELL IN BURMA by Emma Larkin (Penguin Group)
Children's Picture Books:
RUSSELL THE SHEEP by Rob Scotton (HarperCollins)
Intermediate/Young Adult Books:
ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Music:
"Careless Love" by Madeleine Peyroux (Rounder)
For more information about the Borders Voices Award, click here.
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