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The Nebraska Book Awards are sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, and honor books that are written by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, are set in Nebraska, or have Nebraska as their subject matter. Winners are presented each year at the annual Nebraska Book Festival. |
2007 |
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| Children/Young Adult | Dianne E. Gray (writer); Stephanie Cooper (illustrator) |
Tomorrow the River [j Gray] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration | Matt Mason | Things We Don't Know We Don't Know [811 Mas] |
| Fiction | Pamela Carter Joern | The Floor of the Sky [Joern] |
| Fiction Honor Book | Sean Doolittle | The Cleanup [Doolittle] |
| Non-Fiction | Francis Moul | The National Grasslands: A Guide to America's Undiscovered Treasures [577.4 Mou] |
| Non-Fiction Honor Book | Junior League of Omaha | Toast to Omaha: A Cookbook [641.505 Jun] |
| Poetry | Matt Mason | Things We Don't Know We Don't Know [811 Mas] |
2006 |
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| Anthology | J.M. Huscher, Matt Mason, Dan Leaman [eds.] | Slamma Lamma Ding Dong: An Anthology of Nebraska's Slam Poets [811.08 Hus] |
| Children/Young Adult | Jean A. Lukesh Jerome Lagarrigue (illustrator) |
The Nebraska Adventure [j 978.2 Luk] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration | Jim Reese | These Trespasses [Heritage 811 Ree] |
| Fiction | Ladette Randolph | This is Not the Tropics [Randolph] |
| Non-Fiction Honor Book | Michael Forsberg | Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots [598.32 qFor] |
| Poetry | Aaron Anstett | No Accident |
2005 |
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| Anthology | Ladette Randolph [ed.] | A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers [813.08 Ran] |
| Children/Young Adult | Janice N. Harrington Jerome Lagarrigue (illustrator) |
Going North [jP Harrington] |
| Children/Young Adult Honor Book | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan | Effie's Image [Heritage Sharp] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration | Michael Forsberg, Michael Forsberg Photography | On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America [598.32 qFor] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration Honor Book: | Karen Kunc and Jukka Partanen | Mirror of the Wood |
| Fiction | Harley Jane Kozak | Dating Dead Men [Kozak] |
| Fiction Honor Book | Gerald Shapiro | Little Men: Novellas and Stories [Shapiro] |
| Non-Fiction | Roger Welsch | A Life With Dogs [636.7 Wel] |
| Non-Fiction Honor Book | Michael Forsberg | On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America [598.32 qFor] |
| Poetry | Barbara Schmitz | How Much Our Dancing Has Improved [Heritage 811 Sch] |
2004 |
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| Anthology | Shelly Clark, Marjorie Saiser [eds.] | Road Trip: Conversations With Writers [808.02 Cla] |
| Children/Young Adult | N.L. Sharp Michael T. Hassler, Jr. (illustrator) |
The Ring Bear [jP Sharp] |
| Children/Young Adult Honor Book | Ruth Foreman | Free to Drink the Wind [jPB] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration | Shelly Clark, Marjorie Saiser [eds.], Randy Barger [photography], Chris Bristol [cover design] | Road Trip: Conversations With Writers [808.02 Cla] |
| Fiction | Jonis Agee | Acts of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories [Agee] |
| Non-Fiction | William Kloefkorn | Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer [B K69] |
| Poetry | Twyla Hansen | Potato Soup [811 Han] |
2003 |
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| Children/Young Adult | Dianne E. Gray | Together Apart [j Gray] |
| Children/Young Adult Honor Book | Bonnie Geisert | Prairie Summer |
| Cover Design/Illustration | Marjorie Saiser, Greg Kosmicki, Lisa Sandlin [eds.] | Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace: Writing by Women of the Great Plains/High Plains [CALL] |
| Cover Design/Illustration Book Arts Production Honor Book | Oliver B. Pollak | A Year at the Sorbonne: A Proustian Life |
| Fiction | Timothy Schaffert | The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters [Schaffert] |
| Fiction Short Story Collection Honor Book | Karen Gettert Shoemaker | Night Sounds and Other Stories [Shoemaker] |
| Non-Fiction | Ted Kooser | Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps [917.823 Koo] |
| Poetry | Suzan Aizenberg | Muse |
| Poetry Honor Book | Women of the Great Plains, Marjorie Saiser, Greg Kosmicki, Lisa Sandlin [eds.] | Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace [81082 Sai] |
2002 |
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| Fiction | Julia Alvarez, Belkis Ramirez and Bill Eichner | A Cafecito Story: El Cuento Del Cafecito [Alvarez] |
| Non-Fiction | Robert Vivian | Cold Snap as Yearning [814 Viv] |
| Non-Fiction Honor Book | Paul A. Johnsgard | The Nature of Nebraska [508.782 Joh] |
| Poetry | Ted Genoways | Bullroarer: A Sequence |
| Poetry Honor Book | Marjorie Saiser | Lost in Seward County [811 sai] |
| Poetry Honor Book | Hilda Raz | Trans [811 Raz] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration | Charles E. Hunt, Daryl Poulin | All the Horses That He'd Rode |
2001 |
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| Fiction | John McNally | Troublemakers |
| Non-Fiction | Marion Bahensky and Ron Sack | Entering Howard County: A History of the People and the Land of Howard County, Nebraska |
| Non-Fiction Honor Book | Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Hilda Neihardt, Lori Utecht [eds.] | Black Elk Lives: Conversations With the Black Elk Family [970.3 DakYb] |
| Poetry | Ted Kooser | Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison [811 Koo] |
| Children/Young Adult | Susan Buckley, Elspeth Leacock and Randya Jones | Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History [j973.5 Lea] |
| Cover/Design/Illustration | Robert Richter | Homefield: Sonata in Rural Voice [Heritage Richter] |
2000 |
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| Fiction | Jonis Agee | The Weight of Dreams [Agee] |
| Non-Fiction | Michael L. Tate | The Frontier Army and the Settlement of the West [978 Tat] |
| Non-Fiction Honor Book | James Potter and Robert Puschendorf | Spans in Time: A History of Nebraska Bridges [624.2 qPot] |
| Poetry | Marjorie Saiser | Bones of a Very Fine Hand [811 Sai] |
| Cover/Design/Illustrations | Larry D. Underwood | Abilene Lawman [978.103 Und] |