Audie Award Winners Announced at BEA in Chicago

Posted on June 2, 1998

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) presented awards in 23 categories to honor excellence in audio publishing. The Third Annual Audie Awards ceremony was held at the BEA in Chicago. The awards were presented to the best audiobooks released between January 1, 1997 and November 30, 1997, and were selected from a diverse array of entries. Finalists and winners were selected by a committee consisting of 53 judges recruited from a variety of backgrounds within the audiobook industry although audio publishers themselves are not allowed to participate in the judging process. The responsibility of the committee is to evaluate over 400 audiobooks submitted for consideration in over 20 categories. Second City produced the gala event, attended by hundreds of publishers, retailers, distributors, and suppliers along with other industries related to the production, promotion, and sale of audio books. The Winners of the 1998 Audie Awards are as follows:

Fiction, Abridged: God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell, read by Burt Reynolds (Dove Audio)

Fiction, Unabridged: The Breaker, by Kit Denton, read by Terence Donovan (Bolinda Audio Books)

Mystery (Fiction): Vintage Crime Stories, by Ruth Rendell, Frances Hegarty, E.W. Homung, Graham Greene, Margery Allingham, and Charles Dickens Read by Patrick Malahide (Tangled Web Audio)

Non-Fiction, Abridged: Women in the Material World, by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel Read by CCH Pounder, Greg Daniel, Amy Hill, Stephen O'Hara, Maggie Palomo, and Esther Scott (Audio Literature)

Non-Fiction, Unabridged: James Herriot's Animal Stories, by James Herriot, read by Christopher Timothy (Audio Renaissance Tapes)

Personal Development (Self-Help): The Rest of Us, by Jacquelyn Mitchard, read by the author (Penguin Audiobooks)

Business: Pour Your Heart Into It, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, read by Eric Conger (Highbridge Company)

Educational/How-to/Instructional: Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs, by Lang Elliot with Donald and Lillian Stokes, read by the authors (Time Warner AudioBooks)

Children's Title: Redwall - Complete Set, by Brian Jacques, read by the author (Listening Library, Inc.)

Inspirational/Spiritual: Just As I Am, by Billy Graham, read by Cliff Barrows (Harper Audio)

Humor: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, read by the author (Dove Audio)

Poetry: The Spirit Level, by Seamus Heaney, read by the author (Penguin Audiobooks)

Original Work: Diana: A Tribute, produced by the BBC (Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio)

Solo Narration - Male: American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, read by Ron Silver (Dove Audio)

Solo Narration - Female: Land Girls, by Angela Huth, read by Carole Boyd (Isis Publishing)

Solo Narration by the Author: Sula, by Toni Morrison, read by the author (Random House AudioBooks)

Multi-Voiced Narration: Lewis & Clark, by Dayton Duncan Read by Ken Burns, Adam Arkin, Donovan Sylvest, David Magee, and Jason Culp (Random House AudioBooks)

Multi-Voiced Presentation: Women in the Material World, by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel Read by CCH Pounder, Greg Daniel, Amy Hill, Stephen O'Hara, Maggie Palomo, and Esther Scott (Audio Literature)

Production: The Poetry of the Romantics, by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake Read by Joan Allen, Christopher Cazenove, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Jill Eikenberry, Glenda Jackson, Jude Law, Bill Pullman, Roger Rees, Burt Reynolds, Michael Tucker, Blair Underwood, and Orson Welles (Dove Audio)

Children's Production: Redwall - Book One: The Wall, by Brian Jacques, read by the author (Listening Library, Inc.)

Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium: Sleeping Beauty, by Ross Macdonald Read by Haskell Anderson, Ed Asner, Bill Atherton, Graham Beckel, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Jeff Corey, J.D. Cullum, Bruce Davidson, Jacqueline Des Lauriers, Christine Ebersole, Pierre Epstein, Penny Fuller, Robin Gammell, Charles Hallahan, Matt Holzman, Stacy Keach, Shirley Knight, Richard Libertini, Audra Lindley, Nan Martin, Richard Masur, Marian Mercer, Claudette Nevins, Warren Olney, Christina Pickles, Mary Kay Place, John Randolph, Pamela Reed, Andy Robinson, Jennifer Salt, Joyce Van Patten, Harris Yulin, Linda Zechowy, and Anthony Zerbe (The Audio Partners)

Package Design: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, read by Jeremy Irons (Random House AudioBooks)

Best New Publisher: Selling Power Live!, by Laura Day, Nido Qubein, Tom Hopkins, Jose Suquet, and Art Sobczak, read by the authors (Personal Selling Power Inc.)

The Audie Awards are sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), a not-for-profit trade organization consisting of over 200 member companies including publishers, retailers, distributors, and suppliers along with other industries related to the production, promotion, and sale of audiobooks. The mandate of the APA is to deal with concerns of the industry; assure the ongoing production of high quality products; to initiate research and distribution of relevant data; and to nurture solid relationships among the consumer, the retailer, and the industry itself.