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Borders Books and Music has announced the finalists for the 6th Annual Original Voices Awards.
Finalists for the 2002 Original Voices Awards include:
Fiction:
THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS by Paul Auster (Henry Holt)
THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE by Michel Faber (Harcourt)
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin)
THE EYRE AFFAIR by Jasper Fforde (Viking)
LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel (Harcourt)
THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
Nonfiction:
BLUE LATITUDES: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt)
CAN'T BE SATISFIED: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon (Little, Brown)
COMPLICATIONS: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan)
DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (Random House)
HAMLET'S DRESSER by Bob Smith (Scribner)
SALT: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (Walker)
Children's Picture Books:
BEAR SNORES ON by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman (Margaret McElderry)
DAVID GETS IN TROUBLE by David Shannon (Blue Sky)
DEAR MRS. LARUE by Mark Teague (Scholastic)
DUCK ON A BIKE by David Shannon (Blue Sky)
FRIDA by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Ana Juan (Scholastic)
MRS. BIDDLEBOX by Linda Smith, illustrated by Marla Frazee (HarperCollins)
THE SNOW BEAR by Miriam Moss, illustrated by Maggie Kneen (Dutton)
Intermediate/Young Adult Books:
ABARAT by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
CATALYST by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking)
GINGERBREAD by Rachel Cohn (Simon & Schuster)
HOOT by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
ST. MICHAEL'S SCALES by Neil Connelly (Arthur A. Levine)
SUMMERLAND by Michael Chabon (Miramax)
THIS LULLABY by Sarah Dessen (Viking)
WENNY HAS WINGS by Janet Lee Carey (Atheneum)
The finalists are chosen by Borders' corporate and store employees; a select group of corporate employees will choose a winner for each category. All four winners will each receive $5,000. Winners will be announced in March.
Readers interested in learning more about the Original Voices Awards can click here.
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