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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1993
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)
1993 Collections
The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Rosalie Maggio, editor
Beacon Press
A World Treasury of Folk Wisdom
Reynolds Feldman, editor
Cynthia Voelke, editor
HarperCollins
Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War
Anthony Signorelli, editor
Paul MacAdam, editor
Inroads Press
1993 Cuisine
Scandinavian Feasts
Beatrice A. Ojankangas
Michael Grimaldi, photographer
Stewart, Tabori & Chang; distributed in the US by Workman Publishing Co.
The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, The Heartland of Northern Italian Food
Lynne Rossetto Kaspar
Morrow
Cafe Brenda Cookbook: Redefining Seafood and Vegetarian Cuisine
Brenda Langton
Margaret Stuart
Voyageur Press
Lutheran Church Basement Women
Janet Letnes Martin
Al Todnem
Redbird Production
1993 Fiction
Winter Roads, Summer Fields: Stories
Marjorie Dorner
Allen Servoss, illustrator
Milkweed Editions
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel
Judith Katz
Firebrand Books
Just This Side of Fargo
W. Scott Olsen
Ironwood Press
The Price of Eggs: Short Stories
Anne Panning
Coffee House Press
1993 Information
The Wild Gardener: The Life and Selected Writings of Eloise Butler
Martha E. Hellander
North Star Press of Saint Cloud
The Prepublishing Handbook: What You Should Know Before You Publish Your First Book
Patricia J. Bell, author
Don Poynter, foreword
Cat's Paw Press
How to Turn Your Money Life Around: The Money Book for Women
Ruth L. Hayden
Health Communications Incorporated
Lost Twin Cities
Larry Millett
Minnesota Historical Society Press
1993 Mystery & Detective
The Man Who Was Taller Than God
Harold Adams
Walker
Sweetgrass
Cass Dalglish
Lone Oak Press
Blood Kin
Marjorie Dorner
Morrow
Shooting Star
Kate Green
HarperCollins
1993 Non-Fiction
Dragon Within the Gates: The Once and Future AIDS Epidemic
Stephen C. Joseph
Carroll & Graf
Women With Alcoholic Husbands: Ambivalence and the Trap of Codependency
Ramona Marie Asher
University of North Carolina Press
Reforming Farm Policy: Towards a National Agenda
Willard Wesley Cochrane
C. Ford Runge
Iowa State University Press
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
William D. Phillips
Carla Rahn Phillips
Cambridge University Press
1993 Older Children
What's Your Story? A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction
Marion Dane Bauer
Houghton Mifflin: Clarion Books
If You Praise a Word, It Turns into a Poem: Selected Works from the COMPAS Writers and Artists in the School Program.
COMPAS, editor
Take Time to Play Checkers: Wise Words from Kids on Their Parents, Friends, Worries, Hopes and Growing Up
Misti Snow
Viking
1993 Personal Narrative
The Journey Goes On
David Nimmer
Nodin Press
Virgin Time
Patricia Hampl
Farrar Straus Giroux
Girl to Woman: A Gathering of Images
Susan Hauser
Astarte Shell Press
1993 Poetry
You Won't Remember This: Poems
Michael Dennis Browne
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Hogs and Personals: Poems
Leo Dangel
Spoon River Poetry Press
Minnesota Gothic
Mark Vinz
Wayne Gudmundson, photographer
Milkweed Editions
When I Looked Back, You Were Gone: Poems
Cary Waterman
Holy Cow Press; distributed by Talman
1993 Younger Children
Old Black Fly
Jim Aylsworth
Stephen Gammell, illustrator
Holt
Dreamcatcher
Audrey Osofsk
Ed Young, illustrator
Orchard Books
Hello, Crow
Jeff Daniel Marion
Leslie Bowman, illustrator
Orchard Books
Up North at the Cabin
Marsha Wilson Chall
Steve Johnson, illustrator
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Alef-Bet: A Hebrew Alphabet Book
Michelle Edwards
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Who Shrank My Grandmother's House? Poems of Discovery
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Eric Beddows, illustrator
HarperCollins
James Bear's Pie
Jim Latimer
Betsy Franco-Feeney, illustrator
C. Scribner's Sons
Lenore's Big Break
Susan Pearson
Nancy Carlson, illustrator
Viking
Purple-Delicious Blackberry Jam
Lisa Westberg Peters
Barbara McGregor, illustrator
Arcade Publishing
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