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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1992
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
*Note: No awards were held in 1990.
Please also note that the award winners listed for each year were awarded in the year following publication (i.e. winners published in 2007 were announced in 2008 at the 20th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).
(Winners indicated by the 
icon; all others are Finalists)
1992 Anthologies
The Graywolf Anthology Eight: The New Family
Scott Walker, editor
Graywolf Press
Mixed Voices: Contemporary Poems About Music.
Emilie Buchwald, editor
Ruth Roston, editor
Milkweed Editions
North Writers: A Strong Woods Collection.
John Henricksson, editor
University of Minnesota Press
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
Jack Zipes, translator and editor
Viking
The House on Via Gombito: Writing by North American Women Abroad
Madelon Sprengnether, editor
C.W. Truesdale, editor
New Rivers Press
Vital Signs: International Stories on Aging
Dorothy Sennett, editor
Anne Czarniecki, editor
Robertson Davies, introduction
Graywolf Press
1992 Biography
Matriarch of Conspiracy: Ruth von Kleist, 1867-1945
Jane Pejsa
Kenwood Publishing
I'm Mama D
Giovanna D'Agostino
Nodin Press; distributed by the Bookmen
Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
David Mura
Atlantic Monthly Press
Holy Cow! The Life and Times of Halsey Hall
Stew Thornley
Sue Hall Kennedy, foreword
Nodin Press; distributed by the Bookmen
1992 Fantasy & Science Fiction
Elsewhere
Will Shetterly
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
The Phoenix Guards
Steven Brust
A Tom Doherty Associates Book: TOR Fantasy
Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles
Emma Bull
Ace Books
Tam Lin (The Fairy Tale Series, created by Terri Windling)
Pamela Dean
A Tom Doherty Associates Book: TOR Fantasy
Young Bleys
Gordon Dickson
A Tom Doherty Associates Book: A TOR Book
D'Shai
Joel Rosenberg
Ace Books
Mairelon the Magician
Patricia C. Wrede
A Tom Doherty Associates Book: A TOR Fantasy
1992 Fiction
My Father's War and Other Stories
Barton Sutter
Sweet Eyes
Jonis Agee
Crown Publishers
The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories
Carol Bly
HarperCollins
Billy Brazil
Emilio DeGrazia
New Rivers Press
1992 Information
Walking Minnesota
Mary Jo Malach
Jim Malach
Mary Steffl, contributing writer
Martha McNey, contributing writer
Karen Berry, illustrator
Voyageur Press
When You're Sick and Don't Know Why: Coping with Your Undiagnosed Illness
Linda Hanner
John J. Witek, contributor
Robert B. Clift, contributor
DCI Publishing
Twin Cities Restaurant Guide
Jeremy Iggers
Beyond Words Editing & Publishing
Our Historic Upper Mississippi, Including a Traveler's Guide of Things to do Along the River
Duane R. Lund
Adventure Publications
The Dictionary of Bias-free Usage: A Guide to Non-Discriminatory Language
Rosalie Maggio
Oryx Press
1992 Non-Fiction
Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America
Jack Weatherford
Crown
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
Christina Baldwin
Susan Boulet, illustrator
Bantam
There is No November
Dave Hoium
Leon Oistad
Jeric Publications, Inc.
The Way of the Wolf
L. David Mech
Voyageur Press
Everyone's Country Estate: A History of Minnesota's State Parks
Roy W. Meyer
Minnesota Historical Society
A House of One's Own: An Architect's Guide to Designing the House of Your Dreams
James Stageberg
Susan Allen Toth
Clarkson Potter
1992 Older Children
Face to Face
Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion
Leona and Ike
Juanita Havill
Emily McCully, illustrator
Crown Publishers
The Secret of Sanctuary Island
A(nne) M. Monson
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
Everybody's Daughter
Marsha Qualey
Houghton Mifflin
River Rats
Caroline Stevermer
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: Jane Yolen Books
1992 Poetry
Lone Dog's Winter Count
Diane Glancy
West End Press
But I Won't Go Out In a Boat: Poems
Sharon Chmielarz
New Rivers Press
Witch Tree: A Collaboration
Joanne Hart, author
Hazel Belvo, illustrator
Holy Cow! Press
The Dead Get By With Everything: Poems
Bill Holm
Milkweed Editions
All Tangled Up With the Living
Louis Jenkins
Ally Press
Death Song
Thomas McGrath, author
Sam Hamill, editor
Dale Jacobson, introduction
Copper Canyon Press
Gravity
John Minczeski
Texas Tech University Press
1992 Younger Children
The Salamander Room
Steve Johnson, illustrator
Anne Mazer, author
Knopf: Distributed by Random House
Old Turtle
Douglas Wood
Cheng-Khee Chee, illustrator
Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers
Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year
Betsy Bowen
Joy Street Books
A Visit to Grandma's
Nancy Carlson
Viking
Chicken Man
Michelle Edwards
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
Tiger With Wings: The Great Horned Owl
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Mary Barrett Brown, illustrator
Orchard
On the Day You Were Born
Debra Frasier
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
The Wing Shop
Stephen Gammell, illustrator
Elvira Woodruff, author
Holiday House
Roxaboxen
Alice McLerran
Barbara Cooney, illustrator
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
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