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THE NEBRASKA BOOK AWARDS
Nebraska Center for the Book

The 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.

Books published in 2007 will be eligible for the 2008 Awards program. For more information and a link to the entry form, go to the NLC Nebraska Book Awards Page

Winners in the 8th Annual Nebraska Book Awards Competition (2007)
for books published in 2006 are:

Children/Young Adult: Tomorrow the River, Dianne E. Gray, Houghton Mifflin Company

Cover/Design/Illustration: Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, Matt Mason, The Backwaters Press

Fiction: The Floor of the Sky, Pamela Carter Joern, University of Nebraska Press Flyover Fiction Series

Fiction Honor: The Cleanup, Sean Doolittle, Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Nonfiction: The National Grasslands, Francis Moul, Photography by Georg Joutras, University of Nebraska Press Bison Books

Nonfiction Honor: Toast to Omaha: A Cookbook, Junior League of Omaha, Omaha Books

Poetry:Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, Matt Mason, The Backwaters Press

Go to Previous Winners

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