Public Information and Communication
For Immediate Release
October 6, 2006
Contact:
Mary Jo Ryan
402-471-3434, 800-307-2665
The 2006 Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by
the Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB), recognizes and honors books that are
written by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, set in Nebraska,
or concerning Nebraska. This year's winners are:
- Anthology: Slamma Lamma Ding Dong: An
Anthology of Nebraska's Slam Poets, Editors: J.M. Huscher, Matt Mason, Dan
Leamen, iUniverse, Inc.
- Children/Young Adult: The Nebraska Adventure,
by Jean A. Lukesh, Gibbs Smith
- Cover/Design/Illustration: These Trespasses,
by Jim Reese, The Backwaters Press
- Fiction: This Is Not the Tropics, by
Ladette Randolph, University of Wisconsin Press
- Nonfiction:
Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia
Peattie, a Journalist in the Gilded Age by Elia W.
Peattie, edited by Susanne George Bloomfield, University of Nebraska Press
- Nonfiction Honor Book: Rainmakers: A
Photographic Story of Center Pivots, by
The Groundwater Foundation
- Poetry: No Accident, by Aaron Anstett, The
Backwaters Press
Award winners will be honored at the Nebraska Book
Festival, October 7, at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. Books published
in 2006 will be eligible for the 2007 Awards program. To receive notification of
the 2007 Book Awards program, contact Maria Medrano-Nehls, e-mail,
402-471-2045 or 800-307-2665.
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The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the
Nebraska Library Commission and brings together the state's readers, writers,
booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and scholars to build
the community of the book, supporting programs to celebrate and stimulate public
interest in books, reading, and the written word. The Nebraska Center for the
Book is supported by the Nebraska Library Commission.
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