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October 10, 2018
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Tessa Terry
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Celebrate Nebraska’s 2018 Book Award Winners at December 1st Celebration
Celebrate Nebraska’s 2018 Book Award winners with author
readings and an awards presentation ceremony at the Nebraska
Center for the Book’s Celebration of Nebraska Books on December
1 at the History Nebraska’s Nebraska History Museum, 131
Centennial Mall North, in downtown Lincoln. Winners of the 2018
Nebraska Book Awards will be honored and the celebration will
include readings by some of the winning authors, designers and
illustrators of books with a Nebraska connection published in
2017. And the winners are:
Children’s Picture Book: Simpson’s Sheep Just Want
to Sleep by Bruce Arant. Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Chapter Book: George and the Stolen Sunny Spot
by Kristin Bauer Ganoung. Publisher: Prairieland Press
Young Adult: The November Girl by Lydia Kang.
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Cover/Design/Illustration: Nebraska’s First College:
Shaping the Future Since 1867 by Dan Sullivan. Design by Christine
Zueck-Watkins. Publisher: Peru State College Foundation
Fiction: World, Chase Me Down: A Novel by
Andrew Hilleman. Publisher: Penguin Books
Fiction Honor: Kings of Broken Things by
Theodore Wheeler. Publisher: Little A
Fiction Short Story Honor: One With Bird: And Other
Stories by Douglas K. German. Publisher: iUniverse
Nonfiction Biography: The Weight of the Weather:
Regarding the poetry of Ted Kooser edited by Mark Sanders. Publisher:
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Nonfiction Culture: The Sex Effect: Baring Our
Complicated Relationship with Sex by Ross Benes. Publisher:
Sourcebooks, Inc.
Nonfiction History: Homesteading the Plains: Toward
a New History by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S.
Wingo. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Nonfiction Immigration Story: Short Hair Detention:
Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide by
Channy Chhi Laux. Publisher: Archway Publishing
Nonfiction Memoir: What is Gone by Amy Knox
Brown. Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Nonfiction Reference: Atlas of Nebraska by J.
Clark Archer, Richard Edwards, Leslie M. Howard, Fred M. Shelley, Donald A.
Wilhite, and David J. Wishart. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Nonfiction Sesquicentennial: 150@150: Nebraska’s
Landmark Buildings at the State’s Sesquicentennial by Jeff Barnes.
Publisher: The Donning Company Publishers
Poetry: Rock Tree Bird by Twyla M. Hansen.
Publisher: The Backwaters Press
Poetry Honor: Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues
Lyrics and Other Poems by Constance Merritt. Publisher: Headmistress
Press
Poetry Anthology: Nebraska Poetry: A
Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867-2017 edited by Daniel Simon. Publisher:
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
The Celebration of Nebraska Books, free and open to the public, will also
honor winners of the 2018 Jane Geske and Mildred Bennett awards. The Mildred
Bennett Award recognizes individuals who have made a significant
contribution to fostering the literary tradition in Nebraska, reminding us
of the literary and intellectual heritage that enriches our lives and molds
our world. The Jane Geske Award is presented to a Nebraska organization for
exceptional contribution to literacy, books, reading, libraries, or
literature in Nebraska. It commemorates Geske’s passion for books, and was
established in recognition of her contributions to the well-being of the
libraries of Nebraska.
The 2018 One Book One Nebraska selection, Nebraska Presence: An
Anthology of Poetry (The Backwaters Press) edited by Greg Kosmicki and
Mary K. Stillwell will be featured in a keynote presentation at 2:45 p.m.
The Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting will be held at 1:30
p.m.—just prior to the 2:30-6:30 p.m. Celebration. An awards reception
honoring the winning authors, book signings, and introduction of the 2019
One Book One Nebraska/All Iowa Reads book choice will conclude the
festivities.
The Celebration of Nebraska Books is sponsored by Nebraska Center for the
Book and Nebraska Library Commission, with support from History Nebraska’s
Nebraska History Museum. Humanities Nebraska provides support for One Book
One Nebraska. 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 national Center for the
Book in the Library of Congress and the Nebraska Library Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission is an
advocate for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans. The
mission of the Library Commission is statewide promotion, development, and
coordination of library and information services, “bringing together people
and information.”
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