Borders announces the winners of its 2005 Original Voices Awards
by sernabad
Yesterday Borders Books and Music announced the winners in its 9th annual Original Voices Awards. The mega bookstore chain bestows $5000 on each of the winners in five categories. The members of the selection process are all Borders employees, both store and Corporate. Their mission is to recognize writers and musicians for…”their outstanding achievement in crafting creative original books and music.” (The music category was just added this year.)
The categories and their winners are:
Fiction
Nicole Krauss for The History of Love
Nonfiction
Emma Larkin for Finding George Orwell in Burma
Children’s picture book
Robb Scotton for Russell the Sheep
Young Adult
Gabrielle Zevin for Elsewhere
Music
Madeleine Peyroux for Careless Love
All recipients will be honored at the Book Expo America convention in Washington, D.C. in May.
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