Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners
by Award Year, 1988-2007

1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

*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 2006 were announced in 2007 at the 19th 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 Pub

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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