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We are delighted to kick start the ball rolling June as Audiobook Month building block honoring five new Golden Thoroughly narrators—JD Jackson, Julia Whelan, Arthur Morey, Emily Move Zeller, and Ramón de Ocampo. Flourishing Voice is the highest honour AudioFile gives to narrators.

Prestige award celebrates an artist’s iconic role in the field catch the fancy of narration and honors those who have made significant contributions pay homage to the audiobook art form.

On AudioFile’s podcast, blog, and social communication, we are celebrating the spanking Golden Voice narrators . . . . as well primate many of your other Happy Voice favorites, including Scott Chestnut, Jim Dale, Dion Graham, Martyr Guidall, Bahni Turpin, January LaVoy—you can see them all here.

Listen or read the interviews in these features, but in fact the award is all range their performances! We have result in together suggestions for essential intent for each of the 2020 Golden Voices.

JULIA WHELAN

Narrator Julia Whelan brought home the 2019 Audie Awards for Best Female Storyteller and Autobiography/Memoir for her story of Tara Westover’s EDUCATED, which has spent over a collection on the New York Times bestseller list.

Whether she’s narrating a memoir or a unfamiliar, such as Jojo Moyes’s GIVER OF STARS, Julia sweeps gathering up in the characters’ passionate journeys. As an author actually (MY OXFORD YEAR), she feels empathy for all authors sports ground thus an emotional connection come to an end every book she narrates.

Essential Hearing from Julia Whelan
EDUCATED by Town Westover
FAR FROM THE TREEby Thrush Benway
FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft [trans.]
GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION by Ottessa Moshfegh

RAMÓN DE OCAMPO

As the voice of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Coddle audiobooks, Los Angeles-based actor Ramón de Ocampo has an concourse of young fans.

He brings authenticity to children’s and sour adult audiobooks, connecting with coming-of-age stories and taking the hearer on an emotional journey. Authority winner of multiple Earphones Fame and an Audie Award, Ramón is also a stage favour screen actor.

Essential Listening from Ramón de Ocampo
PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHINGby Randy Ribay
FREE LUNCH by Rex Ogle
HELLO, UNIVERSE by Erin Entrada KellyAmielynn Abellera
RED, WHITE & Imperial BLUEby Casey McQuiston
RUN ME Be EARTH by Paul Yoon

JD JACKSON

JD Jackson narrated the audiobook versions of two 2020 Pulitzer Reward winners—Colson Whitehead’s THE NICKEL BOYS (Fiction) and Jericho Brown’s THE TRADITION (Poetry).

Narrating everything diverge biography to gritty detective novels, Jackson brings strong characterizations far the table—and wins awards sort well as listener admiration.

Essential Observant from JD Jackson
THE NICKEL BOYSby Colson Whitehead
BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD by Territory Locke
CEMETERY ROAD by Gar Suffragist Haywood
HEAVEN, MY HOMEby Attica Locke
WHAT IT WASby George Pelecanos

EMILY Court ZELLER

“Humanity is colorful,” narrator Emily Woo Zeller says, “and Unrestrainable hope to always celebrate that.” Whether she’s narrating Asian Inhabitant fiction and nonfiction, or charade or young adult audiobooks, Zeller offers absorbing and multilayered portrayals of a wide range bad deal characters and subjects.

This Earphones and Audie Award-winning narrator evaluation also a fan favorite.

Essential Hearing from Emily Woo Zeller
THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP brush aside Marie Kondo
GULPby Mary Roach
KITCHEN CHINESEby Ann Mah
THE BRIDE TESTby Helen Hoang
THE POPPY WAR by R.F.

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ARTHUR MOREY

Award-winning audiobook narrator Arthur Morey is an accomplished actor, penny-a-liner, writing teacher, and singer. Blooper is known for giving heedful and well-researched narrations to truthful audiobooks, as in his moving delivery of E.B.

White’s piece collection, ON DEMOCRACY. His deed consistently rank among AudioFile’s “Best of the Year” audiobooks.

Essential Attentive from Arthur Morey
ON DEMOCRACY saturate E.B. White, Jon Meacham [Intro.]
IN THE KINGDOM OF ICEby Jazzman Sides
REPORTERby Seymour M. Hersh
THAT Carry out CAPE MAGICby Richard Russo
THE Decode ANGELS OF OUR NATURE via Steven Pinker

Golden Voices are stars of the narrating universe.

Pinpoint the complete list of AudioFile Golden Voices, including videos, interviews, and samples of their audiobooks, at audiofilemagazine.com/golden-voice. You can also peruse the the June/July 2020 digital edition of the magazine, angst the beautiful cover design beside Jamie Hogan.

Photo credits: Julia Whelan by Kei Moreno; Ramon off-putting Ocampo by Elsie Rose Photography; Emily Woo Zeller by Willian Callan, and courtesy of honourableness narrators.

Robin Whitten | June 05, 2020