APH News & Press
APH narrator selected for international honor
News Release: Louisville, Kentucky, November 20, 2000
Bruce Huntey, APH Talking Book narrator for twenty years, has received a prestigious TORGI award from the CNIB Library for the Blind for his narration of the Book, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. The award was announced at a ceremony that was held, recently, in Toronto. Huntey's work was selected from a field of five finalists in the category of Partner-Produced Non-Fiction. He is the first APH narrator to win this award. (Another APH narrator, Butch Hoover, was among the finalists in this category and Carol Jordan Stewart, APH narrator and studio director, was one of the finalists in the category of Partner-Produced Fiction.)
The annual TORGI Talking Books of the Year were initiated in 1984 by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Library for the Blind to highlight the importance of talking books to blind, visually impaired and print-disabled readers.
Named after Morley Torgov, the first recipient, the TORGIs recognize the contributions of the author, publisher and narrator of each winning title. The award judges are a panel of talking book users from across Canada.
The American Printing House for the Blind, founded in 1858, is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States and the world's largest not-for-profit company that creates educational, workplace and life-style products and services for blind or visually impaired people.
The APH Talking Book program began in 1938. Today, APH produces about 500 book titles and nine magazine titles each year for the Talking Book program administered by National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress.
Contact Roberta Williams, Public Relations Specialist, for more information. Telephone: 1 -800-223-1839 or (502) 895-2405; e-mail: rwilliams@aph.org