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)

2001 Honor Award

 A Man's Reach
Gov. Elmer L. Andersen, author and Lori Sturdevant, editor
University of Minnesota Press

2001 Anthology & Collections

 Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson
Sheila Coghill, co-editor
Thom Tammaro, co-editor
University of Iowa Press

33 Minnesota Poets
Emilio DeGrazia, co-editor
Monica DeGrazia, co-editor
Nodin Press

100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors
Michael Dregni, editor
Voyageur Press

2001 Autobiography & Memoir

 Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
Cheri Register
Minnesota Historical Society Press

The Barn at the End of the World
Mary Rose O'Reilley
Milkweed Editions

Eccentric Islands
Bill Holm
Milkweed Editions

Honor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
Sarah Penman, editor
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Places in the World a Person Could Walk
David Syring
University of Texas Press

2001 Children

 The Hunter
Mary Casanova, author
Ed Young, illustrator
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Bonaparte
Marsha Wilson Chall, author
Wendy Anderson Halperin, illustrator
DK Publishing

Everything I Know About Pirates
Tom Lichtenheld, author & illustrator
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Grandma's Gone to Live in the Stars
Max Haynes, author & illustrator
Albert Whitman

2001 Fine Press

 The Summer House
Patricia Hampl, author
Harold Kyle, book artist
Michael Lizama, book artist
Mary Jo Pauly, book artist
Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Emerson Wulling: Printer for Pleasure
Gaylord Schanilec, author & book artist
Midnight Paper Sales Press

Gathering Black Walnuts
Robert Coats, author
Regula Russelle, book artist
Cedar Fence Press

May 31, 1944
Isabella Leitner, author
Gerson Leiber, book artist
Philip Gallo, book artist
Hermetic Press/Oil Creek Press

Velocities of the Possible
Gonzalo Rojas, author
John Oliver Simon, translator
Scott King, book artist
Red Dragonfly Press

2001 History and Biography

 The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
Steven R. Hoffbeck
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
Wang Ping
University of Minnesota Press

Classic Fishing Lures and Tackle
Eric L. Sorenson
Voyageur Press

Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939
Steven J. Keillor
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Dust: A History of the Small and Invisible
Joseph Amato
University of California Press

2001 Nature & Minnesota

 Wild Rice Cooking: History, Natural History, Harvesting, and Lore
Susan Carol Hauser
Lyons Press

Growing Home: Stories of Ethnic Gardening
Susan Davis Price
University of Minnesota Press

A Plague of Frogs
William Souder
Hyperion Books

The Wolves of Minnesota
L. David Mech, editor
Voyageur Press

2001 Novel & Short Story

 Shadow Baby
Alison McGhee
Harmony Books

Glory Goes and Gets Some
Emily Carter
Coffee House Press

The Pact
Walter J. Roers
New Rivers Press

Revenge of Underwater Man
Jarda Cervenka
University of Notre Dame Press

Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken
Shannon Olson
Viking

2001 Poetry

 Turtle Pictures
Ray Gonzalez
University of Arizona Press

Coming Back to the Body
Joyce Sutphen
Holy Cow! Press

Rafting on the Water Table
Susan Steger Welsh
New Rivers Press

The Winter Keeper
Eva Hooker
Chapiteau Press

The Winter Road
Louis Jenkins
Holy Cow! Press

2001 Popular Fiction

 Dark Coulee
Mary Logue
Walker and Company

Easy Prey
John Sandford
G. P. Putnam's Sons

The Last Good Man
Kathleen Eagle
William Morrow

Six Crooked Highways: A Novel
Wayne Johnson
Harmony Books

2001 Young Adult

 Curse of a Winter Moon
Mary Casanova
Hyperion Books for Children

Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press

Girls Think of Everything
Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin Company

The Journal of Otto Peltonen
William Durbin
Scholastic

Mummies, Bones and Body Parts
Charlotte Wilcox
Lerner Publishing Group

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