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Minnesota Book Awards
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A selection of the winners in nonfiction categories from the past ten years. For more information, go to Minnesota Book Awards.
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2012 Otto, Shawn Fool Me Twice : Fighting the Assault On Science in America Award for General Nonfiction Reveals how social and policy changes are failing to support scientific research in such key areas as climate change, energy and genetics, counseling readers on how to overcome such challenges as political denials and a lack of scientific government expertise. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2012 L'Enfant, Julie. Pioneer Modernists : Minnesota's First Generation of Women Artists Award for Minnesota In the early twentieth century Frances Cranmer Greenman, Alice Hugy, Elsa Laubach Jemne, Clara Mairs, Evelyn Raymond, Jo Lutz Rollins, and Ada Wolfe established successful careers as artists in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. They played significant roles in the development of the art schools, galleries, and arts organizations that make the Twin Cities a major cultural center today. Yet their strong reputations were eclipsed mid-century by the rise of Abstract Expressionism and other male-dominated modernist movements. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2012 Paddock, Nancy A Song at Twilight : of Alzheimer's and Love : a Memoir Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction This is one daughter's story of Lois and Ralph Pearson, whose love of life and each other transcended the darkest moments of war, separation, heartache, and family tragedy to achieve a memorable state of grace spanning six decades of marriage. 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2012 Lee, Ed-Bok Whorled : Poems Award for Poetry What does it mean to be a Global Citizen in an era of constant war, rampant industrialization, and ever-advancing technology? Lee's ever-wandering cultural and spiritual nomads struggle to make sense of what it means to be a citizen of an increasingly homeless world. In a world where "all love is immigrant," Whorled confronts and celebrates the many complications of global politics through meditations on war, migration, and culture. In settings from San Francisco to Seoul, the Midwest to Kazakhstan, Ed Bok Lee considers what it means to be a citizen in a world where "you can't win the past / or stalk redemption." 2011 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2011 Rough, Bonnie J. Carrier : Untangling the Danger in My DNA Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction The author explains how test results confirmed that she carried the gene for a rare debilitating condition, prompting her to explore the disease's affects on her mother and grandfather, as well as face tough decisions when deciding whether or not to have her own child. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2011 Darst, Lightsey Find the Girl : Poems Award for Poetry This debut explores the transition from girlhood to womanhood and America's fascination with missing and exploited children. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2011 Hertzel, Laurie News to Me : Adventures of an Accidental Journalist Award for Readers' Choice In this memoir, Hertzel recounts her journey into the world of journalism from starting her first newspaper before she was a teenager to her 18-year career at the Duluth News-Tribune in the 1970s when journalism was a predominantly male profession. She relates the story in the context of the Midwestern city and its people and events like the Congdon murders, the establishment of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and the rise of Indian treaty rights. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2011 Wingerd, Mary Lethert North Country : the Making of Minnesota Award for Minnesota Wingerd tells the story of the early history of Minnesota, from the first contact of the native Objibwe, Dakota, and Winnebago peoples with white explorers and trappers, to the US-Dakota War of 1862 and the obliteration of the Indian presence in the minds of white Minnesotan settlers. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2011 Nordskog, Michael The Opposite of Cold : the Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition Award for General Nonfiction In this enjoyable and beautiful book, readers are introduced to the Finnish roots of the sauna, and the role that saunas have played in the Great Lakes region of the US and Canada. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2010 Lintelman, Joy K. I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson Award for General Nonfiction An intimate and detailed portrait of young Swedish women who chose to immigrate to America in the nineteenth century--why they left, what they found, and how they survived. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2010 Griffith, Cary J. Opening Goliath: Danger and Discovery in Caving Award for Minnesota Adventure writer Cary Griffith recounts riveting and life-threatening tales of exploration in the limestone caves of southeastern Minnesota and the man-made caves of St. Paul. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2010 Nerburn, Kent The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey Through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few outsiders have ever captured. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2009 Friend, Catherine The Compassionate Carnivore: or How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old Macdonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat Award for General Nonfiction Looks at the ethical, practical, and economic aspects of raising and eating meat humanely. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2009 Sommer, Barbara W. Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota Award for Minnesota Sommer, an oral historian, relates the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), President Franklin Roosevelt's jobs program created during the Great Depression. The program employed more than 77,000 Minnesota residents who worked in the national forests, state parks, and in soil conservation projects, among others. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2009 Yang, Kao Kalia The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Presents the journey from refuge camp to America and the hardships and joys of a family's struggle to adapt in a strange culture while holding onto traditions that are passed down from her beloved grandmother. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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2008 Baxter, Charles The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot Award for General Nonfiction Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2008 Hampl, Patricia The Florist's Daughter Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Prompted by her mother's death, the author reassesses her Midwestern youth as the daughter of a debonair, Czech florist father and an Irish mother with a talent as a storyteller, detailing life during the postwar years and the turbulent sixties. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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2008 Hoverson, Doug Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota Award for Minnesota A visual history of MInnesota beers and breweries traces the evolution of the state's beer industry, from the 1849 construction of the first brewery to the growth of small-town enterprises that gave way to large companies of regional and national prominence. 2007 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2007 Akcam, Taner A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Award for General Nonfiction A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book | |
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2007 Wilson, Diane Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past Award for Autobiography, memoir, creative nonfiction The author's story about her search for her Dakota family past and Dakota history. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book (Biography) | |
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