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2007 Nebraska Book Award Winners

The 2007 Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, 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:

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, Quebecor Books

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

Award winners will be honored at the Nebraska Book Festival (http://www.nebraskabookfestival.org), at a presentation in the Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda, at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 27. Books published in 2007 will be eligible for the 2008 Awards program. To receive notification of the 2008 Book Awards program, contact Maria Medrano-Nehls (e-mail: mnehls@nlc.state.ne.us, 402-471-2045 or 800-307-2665).

The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the 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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