Minnesota Book Award Winners
The 29th Annual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony was held Saturday, April 8, 2017 in St. Paul. Winners of the 2017 Minnesota Book Awards were:
Children’s Literature: Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian
General Nonfiction: The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It by Shawn Otto
Genre Fiction: The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction: The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang
Middle Grade Literature: The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse by Brian Farrey
Minnesota Nonfiction: The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape by Cheri Register
Novel & Short Story: Wintering by Peter Geye
Poetry: Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin
Young Adult Literature: The Memory Book by Lara Avery
For more information about the winners and the finalists in all nine categories, click here.