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)

1999 Picture Books - Author

 Elizabeti's Doll
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
Lee & Low Publishing, Inc.

Rupa Raises the Sun
Marsha Wilson Chall
DK Ink Publishing

I Need a Snake
Lynne Jonell
G.P. Putnam's Sons

Letter to the Lake
Susan Marie Swanson
DK Publishing, Inc.

Making the World
Douglas Wood
Simon & Schuster

1999 Picture Books - Illustrator

 Out of the Ocean
Debra Frasier
Harcourt Brace & Company

M is for Minnesota
Dori Hillestad Butler
Janice Lee Porter, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press

Coppelia
Margot Fonteyn
Steve Johnson, illustrator
Lou Fancher, illustrator
Harcourt Brace & Company

Music Over Manhattan
Mark Karlins
Jack E. Davis, illustrator
Bantam, Doubleday, Dell

Scarecrow
Cynthia Ryland
Lauren Stringer, illustrator
Harcourt Brace & Company

1999 Children's Non-Fiction

 Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I
Jane Resh Thomas
Clarion Books

Gloria Steinem, Feminist Extraordinaire
Caroline Evensen Lazo
Lerner Publications Company

Jane Gibbs: Little Bird That Was Caught
Anne E. Neuberger
Ramsey County Historical Society

1999 Young People's Fiction

 Soldier's Heart
Gary Paulsen
Delacorte Press

Sooner
Patricia Calvert
Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster

Hard Ball
Will Weaver
HarperCollins

1999 Information

 Hiking Minnesota
John Pukite
Falcon

Bicycle Vacation Guide: Minnesota & Wisconsin
Doug Shidell and Vicky Vogels
Little Transport Press

Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
Stan Tekiela
Adventure Publications

1999 Help and Guidance

 Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World
Michael Obsatz
Augsburg/Augsburg Fortress

What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future
Peter L. Benson
Judy Galbraith
Pamela Espeland
Free Spirit Publishing

Sports Medicine for Young Athletes: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Coaches
Institute for Athletic Medicine
Scott Kulstad, editor
Fairview Press

1999 Non-Fiction

 The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
Sarah Susanka
Kira Obolensky
The Taunton Press, Inc.

Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-sex Relations and the YMCA
John Donald Gustav-Wrathall
The University of Chicago Press

No-Fault Politics: Modern Presidents, The Press, and Reformers
Eugene McCarthy
Times Books/Random House

1999 Creative Non-Fiction

 Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map
Barton Sutter
University of Minnesota Press

The Cold-and-Hunger Dance
Diane Glancy
University of Nebraska Press

Arousal: Bodies and Pleasures
Martha Roth
Milkweed Editions

The Ice Palace That Melted Away; Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life
Bill (William) Stumpf
Pantheon Books/Random House

1999 Nature

 Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region
Kim Alan Chapman
Adelheid Fischer
Mary Kinsella Ziegenhagen
North Star Press of St. Cloud

Black Bear Country
Michael Furtman
NorthWord Press

Winter Sign
Jim Dale Huot-Vickery
University of Minnesota Press

The Wolves of Denali
L.David Mech
Layne G. Adams
Thomas J. Meier
John W. Burch
Bruce W. Dale
University of Minnesota Press

1999 Illustrated Book

 Chased by the Light: A 90-Day Journey
Jim Brandenburg
NorthWord Press

Born to Pull
Gail de Marcken, illustrator
Bob Cary, author
Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers

Toy Farm Tractors
Bill Vossler
Andy Kraushaar, photography
Voyageur Press

1999 History

 Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish
Fred W. Peterson
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
Brenda J .Child
University of Nebraska Press

A Place at the Lake
Paul Clifford Larson
Afton Historical Society Press

The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today
Odd S. Lovoll
University of Minnesota Press

Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
Ivan Musicant
Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

1999 Biography

 A Lake Superior Lawyer: A Biography of Chester Adgate Congdon
Roy O. Hoover
Superior Partners

Louise's Legacy: Hamm Family Stories
Moira F. Harris, ed.
Pogo Press

Breaking Trail
Edgar E. Hetteen
Jay M. Lemke
Focus Publishing, Inc.

1999 Collected Works

 The Talking of Hands: Unpublished Writing by New Rivers Press Authors
New Rivers Press
New Rivers Press

Minnesota Seasons: Classic Tales of Life Outdoors
Scott Bestul, editor
The Cabin Bookshelf

Welcome to Your Life; Writings for the Heart of Young America
David Haynes, editor
Julie Landsman, editor
Milkweed Editions

1999 Fantasy & Science Fiction

 Komarr: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
Lois McMaster Bujold
Baen Books

Dragon
Steven Brust
Tor Books

Juniper, Gentian, & Rosemary
Pamela Dean
Tor Books

1999 Memoir

 The Witness of Combines
Kent Meyers
University of Minnesota Press

Barefoot on Crane Island
Marjorie Myers Douglas
Minnesota Historical Society Press

A Finntown of the Heart
Patricia Johnson Eilola
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.

Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art
George Morrison
as told to Margot Fortunato Galt
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Reluctant Dissenter: An Autobiography
James Patrick Shannon
The Crossroad Publishing Company

1999 Mystery

 Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger
Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster Inc.

Closed in Silence
Joan M. Drury
Spinsters Ink

The Big Law
Chuck Logan
HarperCollins

Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders: From the American Chronicles of John H. Watson
Larry Millett
M.D., Viking

1999 Novels and Short Stories

 Rainlight
Alison McGhee
Papier-Mache Press

How the Dead Live: Stories
Alvin Greenberg
Graywolf Press

Trip Sheets
Ellen Hawley
Milkweed Editions

Our Sometime Sister: A Novel
Norah Labiner
Coffee House Press

Range of Light: A Novel
Valerie Miner
Zoland Books, Inc.

Blue Bossa
Bart Schneider
Viking Penguin

1999 Poetry

 The Green Tuxedo
Janet A. Holmes
University of Notre Dame Press

Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day: Poems
Philip Bryant
New Rivers Press

Temporary Help: Poems
John Engman [Minneapolis, d. 1996]
Holy Cow! Press

The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Robert Hedin
Holy Cow! Press

Yesterday Had a Man in It
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Carnegie Mellon University Press

Sacred Vows
U Sam Oeur
Coffee House Press

1999 Fine Press

 Roar Shocks
David Rathman
Hermetic Press

Waterfalls of the Mississippi
Richard Fred Arey
with color engravings by Gaylord Schanilec
Minnesota Outdoors Press
*Winner of the 1999 John T. Flanagan Award

The Everyday Magic of Walterlee Higgins
David Haynes
Minnesota Center for Book Arts

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