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Celebrate Nebraska’s 2020 Book Award Winners at Week Long Virtual Celebration
Celebrate Nebraska’s 2020 Book Award winners with author readings and an awards presentation ceremony at the Nebraska Center for the Book’s week long virtual Celebration of Nebraska Books starting October 19th. Winners of the 2020 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 2019. And the winners are:
Children’s Picture Book:
Your Bridge to History
by Portia Love & Preston Love, Jr. Illustrated by Regina Jeanpierre.
Publisher: Preston Publishing
Children’s Picture Book Honor:
Major: A Soldier Dog
by Trevor Jones. Illustrated by Ming Hai. Publisher: Six Foot Press
Cover/Design/Illustration:
The Spirit of Nebraska: A History of Husker Game Day Traditions - the Tunnel
Walk, Mascots, Cheer, and More
by Debra Kleve White. Design by Concierge Marketing and Publishing Services.
Publisher: Cheerful Books
Fiction:
See Willy See by Faith Colburn.
Publisher: Prairie Wind Press
Fiction Honor Series:
The Line Between: A Thriller
and A Single Light: A Thriller by
Tosca Lee. Publisher: Howard Books
Nonfiction Investigative Journalism:
Zoo Nebraska: Dismantling of an American Dream
by Carson Vaughan. Publisher: Little A
Nonfiction Nature Reference:
Great Plains Birds: Discover the Great Plains
by Larkin Powell. Publisher: Bison Books
Nonfiction Immigration Story:
Citizen Akoy: Basketball and the Making of a South Sudanese American
by Steve Marantz. Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Nonfiction Nebraska Perseverance:
Nebraska During the New Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project in the
Cornhusker State by Marilyn Irvin Holt. Publisher: Bison Books
Nonfiction Native American History:
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka
Hämäläinen. Publisher: Yale University Press
Poetry:
This Bright Darkness by Sarah McKinstry-Brown. Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Poetry Honor:
In a Good Time by Mark
Sanders. Publisher: WSC Press
The virtual Celebration of Nebraska Books will also honor winners of the
2020 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 2020 One Book One Nebraska selection, All the Gallant Men: An
American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor by Donald Stratton
with Ken Gire (William Morrow, 2016) will be featured in a keynote
presentation. The introduction of the 2021 One Book One Nebraska book choice
will conclude the festivities on Friday, October 23rd.
The Celebration of Nebraska Books is sponsored by Nebraska Center for the
Book and the 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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http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.