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2003 Borders Original Voices Award Winners
Borders Group has announced the winners of the seventh annual Borders Original Voices Awards. Winners will receive $5,000 from the company for their outstanding achievement in crafting creative, original books.
Fiction:
THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
Nonfiction:
RANDOM FAMILY: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (Scribner)
Children's Picture Books:
THE DOT by Peter H. Reynolds (Gingham Dog Press)
Intermediate/Young Adult Books:
A NORTHERN LIGHT by Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt)
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2003 Borders Original Voices Award Finalists
Borders Books and Music has announced the nominees for the 7th Annual Original Voices Awards.
Finalists for the 2003 Original Voices Awards include:
Fiction:
BRICK LANE by Monica Ali (Scribner)
JENNIFER GOVERNMENT by Max Barry (Doubleday)
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage)
HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER by Julie Orringer (Knopf)
Nonfiction:
A MILLION LITTLE PIECES by James Frey (Nan A. Talese)
MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING by Ross King (Walker)
RANDOM FAMILY: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (Scribner)
POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
Children's Picture Books:
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Tony Diterlizzi (Simon & Schuster)
DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
THE STORY OF FROG BELLY RAT BONE by Timothy B. Ering (Candlewick)
ELEANOR, ELLATONY, ELLENCAKE, AND ME by C.M. Rubin (McGraw-Hill)
THE DOT by Peter H. Reynolds (Gingham Dog Press)
STRANGER IN THE WOODS by Carl R. Sams II (Carl R. Sams II)
Intermediate/Young Adult Books:
ERAGON by Christopher Paolini (Knopf)
THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND by Jonathan Stroud (Miramax)
THE CITY OF EMBER by Jeanne DuPrau (Random House)
GRANNY TORRELLI MAKES SOUP by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler)
AFTER by Francine Prose (Joanna Cotler)
A NORTHERN LIGHT by Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt)
The finalists are chosen by both corporate and store employees. A select group of Borders' corporate staff will read each finalist and choose the winners, which will be announced in March. All four winners will each receive $5,000.
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