Public Information and Communication
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 13, 2005
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mary Jo Ryan
402-471-3434, 800-307-2665
Nebraska Books Honored by Center for the Book
The 2005 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: A Different Plain: Contemporary
Nebraska Fiction Writers, Ladette Randolph, Editor, University of Nebraska
Press
- Children: Going North, Janice N.
Harrington, Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrations), Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Children's Honor Book: Effie's Image,
N. L. Sharp, Dorothia Rohner (Illustrations), Prairieland Press
- Young Adult Honor Book: Worth, A. LaFaye,
Simon and Schuster
- Cover/Design/Illustration: On Ancient Wings,
Michael Forsberg, Michael Forsberg Photography
- Cover/Design/Illustration Honor Book: Mirror
of the Wood, Karen Kunc and Jukka Partanen, Blue Heron Press
- Fiction: Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane
Kozak, Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
- Fiction Honor Book: Little Men, Gerald
Shapiro, Ohio State University Press
- Non-Fiction: A Life with Dogs, Roger
Welsch, MBI Publishing Company
- Non-Fiction Honor Book On
Ancient Wings, Michael Forsberg, Michael Forsberg Photography
- Poetry: How Much Our Dancing Has Improved,
Barbara Schmitz, The Backwaters Press
Books published in 2005 will
be eligible for the 2006 Awards program. To receive notification of the 2006
Book Awards program, contact Maria Medrano-Nehls, 402-471-2045 or 800-307-2665.
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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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