Viola Davis and Paul Simon among finalists for Audiobook Award

NEW YORK (AP) — Viola Davis, Paul Simon and Molly Shannon are among the nominees for the spoken word prize: the Audio Publishers Association’s annual Audie Awards.

On Thursday, the publishers association announced the nominees in 26 categories.

Davis’ memoir Looking for Me, read by the Oscar-winning actor, was among the finalists for the audiobook of the year. This project recently won Davis a Grammy Award for Best Audiobook, Narrative and Narrative Recording, elevating her to EGOT status.

Other finalists were The 1619 Project, based on the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning series about race and racism in US history, Wonder and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, Awakening: The Hidden History of Women. Led slave uprisings and “astonishingly flamboyant beings”.

The awards range from audio drama to fantasy to memoir, with finalists including Shannon’s story about her own “Hi, Molly!”

Lucy Liu was a finalist in the Fiction category as one of the narrators of Tom Perrotta’s Tracey Flick Can’t Win, his sequel to Elections. Rosamund Pike’s short story “The Eye of the World” by Robert Jordan and the reading of “War and Peace” by Tandive Newton earned them nominations for best female storyteller. Happy-Go-Lucky, written and narrated by David Sedaris, was a finalist for Best Humorous Audiobook.

Winners will be announced March 28th.

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