Nicole Krauss, the author of The History of Love (W. W. Norton, 2005), was recently named the winner of the 2005 Borders Original Voices Award in fiction. The $5,000 prize, sponsored by Borders Group, Inc., is given annually for an “innovative and ambitious work from a new and emerging talent, or a title that represents a new direction for an established author.”

The other finalists were Ronlyn Domingue for The Mercy of Thin Air (Atria, 2005); Ryan Gattis for Kung Fu High School (Harvest Books, 2005); Davy Rothbart for The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories (Touchstone, 2005); Marina Lewycka for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Penguin, 2005); and Ron McLarty for The Memory of Running (Viking, 2004).