Borders Books & Music has chosen the winners for the 2002 annual Original Voices Awards. The awards were given in four categories:

Fiction: The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (Holt)

Nonfiction: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan)

Children's Picture Books: Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith, illustrated by Marla Frazee (HarperCollins)

Intermediate/Young Adult Books: Abarat by Clive Barker (HarperCollins)

Borders' Original Voices monthly program features the works of more than 200 contemporary authors and illustrators from around the world, both innovative and ambitious books from new and emerging talents as well as works that represent a new direction for established authors.