Public Information and Communication
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 9, 2009
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mary Jo Ryan
402-471-3434
800-307-2665
Books Honored by Nebraska Center for the Book
The Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book
(NCB) and supported by the Nebraska Library Commission, recognizes and honors
books that are written by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers,
set in Nebraska, or concerning Nebraska.
The winners of the 2009 Nebraska Book Awards (books published in 2008) will be
presented at the Nebraska Center for the Book's Annual Meeting and Nebraska Book
Festival in Lincoln on November 14, 2009.
2009 award winners to be honored at the Nebraska Book Festival are:
Cover/Design/Illustration:
BVH Architects: Forty Years,
by Suzanne Smith Arney
Publisher:Omaha Books, a
division of Eventive Marketing, LLC
Designer:
Elizabeth Murphy
Cover Photo:
Fashid Assassi
Cover/Design/Illustration Honor:
The Death of Raymond Yellow
Thunder,
by Stew Magnuson
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Cover Photo: John Vachon
Fiction:
Exiles, by Ron
Hansen
Publisher: Picador: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Nonfiction:
The Death of Raymond Yellow
Thunder,
by Stew Magnuson
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Nonfiction Honor:
Nebraska's Cowboy Trail,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Poetry:
Geographia by James Magorian
Publisher: Black Oak Press
Books published in 2009 will be eligible
for the 2010 Awards program. To receive notification of the 2009 Book Awards
program, contact Maria Medrano-Nehls, 402-471-2045 or 800-307-2665; email.
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