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Winners of the 17th
annual Minnesota Book Awards announced
MINNEAPOLIS -- Winners of the 17th Annual Minnesota Book Awards were announced April
16 at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis. In addition, winners of the annual Kay Sexton
and Minnesota Humanities Prize for Literature awards, and statewide Letters About
Literature contest for students, were honored at the ceremony.
The ceremony was emceed by WCCO-TV and Radio personality, Don Shelby. Guest presenters
were Marion Dane Bauer, Debra Frasier, Judith Guest, Erin Hart, Pete Hautman, Mary
Logue, Alison McGhee, P.J. and Traci Lambrecht and Larry Millett.
Sponsors of the 17th Annual Minnesota Book Awards are The Friends of the Saint Paul
Public Library, St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Rake, Target, Barnes & Noble, St.
Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), and Ticket Works.
The winners for the 2005 Minnesota Book Awards are:
Anthology and Collection -- Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary
War to the War on Terrorism, edited by Robert Hedin, published by Persea Books
Autobiography and Memoir -- Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History, by
Jennifer Vogel, published by Scribner
New
Voice Children's
and Young Adult Nonfiction -- The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies,
and Other Secret Beings, by Lise Lunge-Larsen, illustrated by Beth Krommes, published
by Houghton Mifflin
Children's Fiction and Poetry -- The Darkest Evening, by William Durbin, published
by Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Children's Picture Books -- The Best Pet of All, by David LaRochelle, illustrated
by Hanako Wakiyama, published by Dutton Children's Books, a division of Penguin Young
Readers Group
Fine Press -- Distance from the Sun: Thirty Prose Poems from Thirty Years,
by Louis Jenkins; illustrations by Chandler O'Leary; design and binding by Jeff Rathermel
and Jana Pullman; printing by Sara Langworthy; published by the Minnesota Center
for Book Arts
General Nonfiction -- Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent
Brain for You and Your Teen, by David Walsh, published by Free Press
History and Biography -- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,
by Jack Weatherford, published by Crown Publishers
Nature and Minnesota -- Minnesota Treasures: Stories Behind the State's Historic
Places, by Denis P. Gardner, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press
New
Voice Novel
and Short Story -- The Work of Wolves, by Kent Meyers, published by Harcourt
Poetry -- Naming the Stars, by Joyce Sutphen, published by Holy Cow! Press
Popular Fiction -- Alone At Night, by KJ Erickson, published by St. Martin's
Press
Young Adult Fiction and Poetry -- Godless, by Pete Hautman, published by Simon
& Schuster
Kay Sexton Award -- Marly Rusoff, founder of The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
This annual award honors an individual or organization involved in fostering books,
reading, and literary activity in Minnesota. Rusoff, a literary agent and former
publishing executive, is also the creator of the first Reading Group Guide for Book
Clubs.
Minnesota Humanities Prize for Literature -- Joseph A. Amato, professor emeritus
of the Center for Rural and Regional Studies, and of history, at Southwest Minnesota
State University in Marshall. This prize recognizes an individual's contribution
to literature and the advancement of the humanities in Minnesota. Amato is the author
of numerous works and is a six-time Minnesota Book Award finalist.
Letters About Literature
Letters About Literature is a national reading and writing contest for students in
grades 4 through 12. Contestants write a personal letter to an author, explaining
how the author's work changed their perspective of the world or themselves. U.S.
Senator Mark Dayton presented each of the three winners with a certificate, a $50
Target gift card, and a $100 award from the Minnesota Humanities Commission and the
Library of Congress. The contest is sponsored in Minnesota by the Minnesota Humanities
Commission, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Minnesota Council of Teachers of
English. The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with
Target Stores, sponsors Letters About Literature nationally.
Level I (Grades 4-6) -- Laura Thompson of Bemidji Middle School, for her letter
to Dave Pelzer, author of A Child Called "It." Laura was also named runner-up
in the national competition.
Level II (Grades 7-8) -- Stephen Kindt of Minnetonka Middle School West, wrote
a letter to Vince Lombardi, for his speech, "What It Takes to Be Number One."
Level III (Grades 9-12) -- Aaron LaFave of Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault,
for his letter to J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye. |
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