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...
2012 Award Recipient — Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation
This award is given to an individual who provides leadership and service in the promotion of Nebraska literature. More...
2013 Award Recipient — Jane Hood
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...
2012 Award Recipients
- Anthology
- Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, edited by Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell
- Publisher: The Backwaters Press
- Anthology Honor
- Women on the North American Plains, edited by Renee Laegreid and Sandra K. Mathews
- Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
- Cover/Design/Illustration
- First Telegraph Line across the Continent: Charles Brown’s 1861 Diary, edited by Dennis Mihelich and James E. Potter
- Publisher: Nebraska State Historical Society Books
- Designer: Reigert Graphics
- Cover/Design/Illustration Honor
- Flushed During Play: 51 Pet Rodent Deaths, compiled by Jeff Lacey
- Artwork: Calvin Banks
- Fiction
- To Be Sung Underwater, Tom McNeal
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Nonfiction: Biography
- Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son's Search for His Father, Brent Spencer
- Publisher: The Backwaters Press
- Nonfiction: History
- The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the ‘68 Racial Divide, Steve Marantz
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Nonfiction: Nebraska as Place
- Portraits Of The Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather, Richard Schilling
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Nonfiction: Reference
- Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains, by Jon Farrar
- Publisher: University of Iowa Press
- Poetry
- Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet, Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom
- Publisher: The Backwaters Press
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