Borders(R) Announces 2006 Original Voices Awards Nominees

Borders(R) Announces 2006 Original Voices Awards Nominees

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Borders Inc., a subsidiary of Borders Group, Inc., a global retailer of books, music and movies announced the nominees for the 2006 Original Voices Awards today. 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.

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"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 - Matador Records
"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/.

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