Winners have been selected for the 38th annual Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library and the Minnesota Center for the Book:
Children's Literature: All the Stars in the Sky by Art Coulson, illustrated by Winona Nelson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
General Nonfiction: Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie by David Hage and Josephine Marcotty (Random House)
Genre Fiction: The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens (Mulholland Books)
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction: Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage by Kelly Foster Lundquist (Eerdmans)
Middle Grade Literature: Weird Sad and Silent by Alison McGhee (Rocky Pond Books)
Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction: Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota During World War II by Ka F. Wong (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Novel & Short Story: Ashes to Ashes by Thomas Maltman (Soho Press)
Poetry: I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always by Douglas Kearney (Wave Books)
Young Adult Literature: The Flip Side by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond Books)
Special Awards:
Kay Sexton Award: Sun Yung Shin, poet, writer, editor, children's book author, and cultural worker
Hognander Minnesota History Award: It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom by Christopher P. Lehman (Minnesota Historical Society Press)