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November 30 – December 7, 2006 Edition
Borders Announces
2006 Original Voices
Award Nominees
ANN ARBOR, MI/11/22/06—Borders Inc., a subsidiary of Borders Group, Inc., a global retailer of books, music and movies, has announced the nominees for the 2006 Original Voices Awards. The 11th annual awards include books in the fiction, nonfiction, intermediate/young adult and children’s categories and music. Winners in the five categories will each be awarded a $5,000 prize from the company.
"The Original Voices program helps us share our passion for books and music with our customers and highlights some of the most creative and impressive works in the world of literature and music throughout the year," said Bill Nasshan, senior vice president of trade books. "The finalists for the 2006 Original Voices Award represent new and promising talent whose work our home office and store employees found compelling this past year."
Finalists for the awards are chosen by both corporate and store employees. A committee of corporate staff members representing each of the five categories will read and listen to each finalist and choose the winners, which will be announced in January.
Throughout the year, Borders’ Original Voices program features the works of more than 200 contemporary authors/illustrators/artists from around the world in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, young adult, children’s picture books and music. The monthly program highlights innovative and ambitious new books and music from new and emerging talents, as well as works that represent a new direction for established authors and musicians.
Nominees for the 2006 Original Voices Awards are:
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 – Globe 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 O’Conner & Glasser – 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 written by Catherine Murdock – Houghton Mifflin
Endymion Spring by Mathew Skelton – Delacorte Books for Young Readers
The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne – David Fickling Books
Skinny by Ibi Kaslik – Walker & Co.
Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu – Atheneum
Music:
Corrine Bailey Rae by Corrine Bailey Rae -EMI Records
Eye to the Telescope by K.T. Tunstall -Virgin Records
The Greatest by Cat Power – MatadorRecords
Speak for Yourself by Imogen Heap -RCA
Till the Sun Turns Black by Ray Lamontagne -RCA
About Borders Group
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., Borders Group is a leading global retailer of books, music and movies with more than 1,300 stores and over 34,000 employees worldwide. More detailed information on the company is available at http://www.bordersgroupinc.com.
