The Nebraska Center for the Book annually presents this award to an organization, business, library, school, association, or other group that has made an exceptional contribution to literacy, books, reading, libraries, or Nebraska literature. More...
2011 Award Recipient — Greg Kosmicki and The Backwaters Press
This award is given to an individual who provides leadership and service in the promotion of Nebraska literature. More...
2012 Award Recipient — Laureen Riedesel
The Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB), recognizes and honors books that are written by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, set in Nebraska or concerning Nebraska. More...
2011 Award Recipients
- Cover/Design/Illustration
- The Flower Girl/The Ring Bear, N.L. Sharp
- Illustrator: Tim Hantula
- Publisher: Prairieland Press
- Designer: Lynn Gibney
- Cover/Design/Illustration Honor
- Belle Boy, Anne Fuller
- Publisher: Fuller Minds LLC
- Designer: Gary James Withrow
- Fiction
- Lamb Bright Saviors, Robert Vivian
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Fiction Honor
- Stolen Horses, Dan O'Brien
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Nonfiction
- Life is What You Make It, Peter Buffet
- Publisher: Harmony Books
- Nonfiction Honor
- North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied: Volume 2, April-September 1833, Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher, Editors
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Poetry
- Cradling Monsoons, Sarah McKinstry-Brown
- Publisher: Blue Light Press
- Young Adult Fiction
- The Red Umbrella, Christina Diaz Gonzalez
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era, David L. Bristow
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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