Borders Original Voices Awards
Borders Books and Music provides the annual Original Voices Awards, established to highlight innovative books from new and emerging talents, as well as outstanding works from established authors. Winners are chosen in the categories of fiction and nonfiction, with a special honorary award in children's picture books. Each month Borders stores nationwide offer a discount on books by authors in the program.2005 (8th Annual Awards)
Original Voices Award in Fiction
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Original Voices Award in Nonfiction
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein (Little, Brown)
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Children's Picture Books
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
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Young Adult
Ida B by Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow)
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2004 (7th Annual Awards)
Original Voices Award in Fiction
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Books)
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Original Voices Award in Nonfiction
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (Scribner)
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Children's Picture Books
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds (Candlewick Press)
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Young Adult
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt Children's Books)
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2003 (6th Annual Awards)
Original Voices Award in Fiction
Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (Henry Holt & Company)
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Original Voices Award in Nonfiction
Complications by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books)
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Children's Picture Books
Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith, illustrated by Marla Frazee (HarperCollins)
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Young Adult
Abarat by Clive Barker (Joanna Cotler Books)
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2002 (5th Annual Awards)
Original Voices Award in Fiction
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (MacAdam/Cage)
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Original Voices Award in Nonfiction
Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Random House)
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Children's Picture Books
The Tin Forest by Helen Ward, illustrated by Wayne Anderson (Dutton Books)
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Young Adult
Under a War-Torn Sky by L.M. Elliott (Hyperion)
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2001 (4th Annual Awards)
Original Voices Award in Fiction
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
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Original Voices Award in Nonfiction
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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Special Honorary Award in Children's Picture Books
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
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2000 (3rd Annual Awards)
Original Voices Award in Fiction
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
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Original Voices Award in Nonfiction
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
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