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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2002
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
*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)
2002 Anthology & Collections
The Cancer Poetry Project
Karin Miller, editor
Fairview Press
Kerlan Awards in Children's Literature 1975-2001
Ruth Berman, editor
Pogo Press, Inc.
Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories
Anton Treuer, editor & translator
Minnesota Historical Society Press
This Old Quilt
Margret Aldrich, editor
Voyageur Press
2002 Autobiography & Memoir
While the Locust Slept
Peter Razor
Minnesota Historical Society Press
The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s
Ricardo J. Brown
University of Minnesota Press
The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir
Valerie Miner
Michigan State University Press
Mountains of Memory: A Fire Lookout's Life in the River of No Return Wilderness
Don Scheese
University of Iowa Press
2002 Children
The Race of the Birkebeiners
Lise Lunge-Larsen
Mary Azarian, illustrator
Houghton Mifflin
The Day Ocean Came to Visit
Diane Wolkstein
Steve Johnson, co-illustrator
Lou Fancher, co-illustrator
Harcourt
Silver Seeds: A Book of Nature Poems
Paul Paolilli, co-author
Dan Brewer, co-author
Steve Johnson, co-illustrator
Lou Fancher, co-illustrator
Viking Children's Books
2002 Fine Press
Garment Register
Harriet Bart, book artist
Phillip Gallo, printer
Jill Jevne, binder
Harriet Bart
Ernest Morgan: Printer of Principle
Gaylord Shanilec, author & book artist
Midnight Paper Sales
The Geography of the Heart
Charlene Sexton, author & editor
Regula Russelle, book artist
Poetry and Spirituality Society
Ice Walk
Judith Guest
Michael Lizama, co-artist
Jana Pullman, co-artist
Minnesota Center for the Book Arts
2002 History & Biography
Views on the Mississippi: The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse
Mark Neuzil
University of Minnesota Press
Body of Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and the St. John's Pottery
Matthew Welch
Afton Historical Society Press
A Union Against Unions
William Millikan
Minnesota Historical Society Press
2002 Nature & Minnesota
In Search of Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Richard Olsenius, photographer
Viking Studio
Lake Street, U.S.A.
Wing Young Huie
Ruminator Books
Picturing Lake Minnetonka
James W. Ogland
Minnesota Historical Society Press
2002 Novel & Short Story
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins Books
In the Company of Angels
N. M. Kelby
Hyperion
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press
2002 Poetry
The Night Abraham Called to the Stars
Robert Bly
HarperCollins
Alembic
Vicki Graham
Red Dragonfly Press
The Bullfinch Rising from the Cherry Tree
Olav H. Hauge
Robert Hedin, translator
Brooding Heron Press
Bullroarer: A Sequence
Ted Genoways
Northeastern University Press
The Salt Hour
J.P. White
University of Illinois Press
2002 Popular Fiction
Purgatory Ridge: A Cork O'Conner Mystery
William Kent Krueger
Pocket Books
The End of Enemies
Grant Blackwood
Berkley Books
The Merchant of Venus
Ellen Hart
St. Martin's Press
2002 Youth Literature
Zazoo
Richard Mosher
Clarion Books
Four to the Pole!
Nancy Loewen, co-author
Ann Bancroft, co-author
Linnet Books
Memory Boy
Will Weaver
HarperCollins Children's Books
The Tiger Rising
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press
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