Viola Davis, Paul Simon and Molly Shannon are among the many nominees for prizes given for the spoken phrase: the annual Audie Awards, handed out by the Audio Publishers Association.
Davis’ memoir “Finding Me,” learn by the Oscar-winning actor, is a finalist for audiobook of the 12 months. The challenge just lately gained Davis a Grammy for greatest audio ebook, narration, and storytelling recording, catapulting her to EGOT standing.
The different finalists are “The 1619 Project,” primarily based on The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning sequence about race and racism in U.S. historical past, “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon,” “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, and “Remarkably Bright Creatures.”
The awards vary from from audio drama to fantasy and memoir, for which finalists embody Shannon’s narration of her personal “Hello, Molly!”
Lucy Liu is a finalist within the fiction class as one of many narrators of Tom Perrotta’s “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” his sequel to “Election.” Rosamund Pike’s narration of Robert Jordan’s “The Eye of the World” and Thandiwe Newton’s studying of “War and Peace” introduced them every nominations for greatest feminine narrator. “Happy-Go-Lucky,’” written and narrated by David Sedaris, is a finalist for greatest humor audiobook.
Winners shall be introduced March 28.
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