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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Minnesota Book Award Winners

The Minnesota Book Awards were presented last Saturday at the Crown Plaza Hotel in St. Paul.
The evening festivities included appetizers, wine, coffee, dessert, champagne and music. 
The winners for the 2012 book awards are:

Children's Literature:Laura Purdie Salas – BookSpeak! Poems About Books

General nonfiction:  Shawn Lawrence Otto – Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

Genre fiction:  Richard A. Thompson – Big Wheat

Memoir and creative nonfiction:  Nancy Paddock – A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer’s and Love

Minnesota:  Julie L’Enfant – Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists

Novel and short story:  Gregory Blake Smith – The Law of Miracles and Other Stories

Poetry:  Ed Bok Lee – Whorled

Young Adult:  Brian Farrey – With or Without You

Reader's Choice Award:  Kurtis Scaletta – The Tanglewood Terror

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