Borders Group Chief Executive Officer George Jones will lead the retailer’s 12^th annual Original Voices Awards ceremony, which recognizes fresh, compelling and ambitious works from new and emerging talents of 2007 in fiction, non-fiction, young adult/independent reader and children’s picture books. The winner of the Original Voices’ fiction category is Steven Hall for his debut book, “The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel,” published by Canongate. The winner of the Original Voices’ non-fiction category is Peter Godwin for his book, “When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa,” published by Little Brown & Co. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: A Novel in Cartoons,” written by Jeff Kinney and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, is the Original Voices’ winner of the young adult/independent reader category. In the children’s picture book category, the Original Voices’ winner is author and illustrator John Rocco for “Wolf! Wolf!” published by Hyperion Books for Children.

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