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2020 Award Recipient —
UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
This award is given to an individual who provides leadership and service in the promotion of Nebraska literature. More...
2020 Award Recipient —
Kimberly Verhines
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...
2021 (22nd annual) for books published in 2020
- Children's Picture Book
- Letters from Space, by Clayton Anderson
- Illustrated by Susan Batori
- Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
- Design
- Sy's Barbershop and Pool Hall: New and Selected Poems and Paintings, by Jay D. Gerber
- Publisher: Infusionmedia
- Illustration
- Lily Discovers People are Like Donuts, by Rob Otte
- Illustrated by Carey Goddard
- Publisher: Jelly Donut Publishing
- Illustration Honor
- The Day We Went to the Park, by Linda Stephen and Christine Manno
- Origami Artwork by Linda Stephen
- Publisher: Handersen Publishing
- Fiction
- The Brightest Place in the World, by David Philip Mullins
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press
- Nonfiction Legal History
- A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nationa's Founding to the Civil War, by William G. Thomas III
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Nonfiction Memoir
- Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime, by Debora Harding
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Nonfiction Memoir Honor
- Yards After Contact - Team Jack: Scoring a Touchdown Against Childhood Brain Cancer, by Andrew Hoffman, foreword by Rex Burkhead
- Publisher: Nico 11 Publishing and Design
- Nonfiction Military History
- A Mighty Force for Peace: A History of the Former Lincoln Air Force Base, by Robert M. Branting
- Publisher: Infusionmedia
- Nonfiction Nebraska History
- Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-1890, by Matthew S. Luckett
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Nonfiction Nebraska as Place
- Cut in Stone, Cast in Bronze: Nebraska Historical Markers and Monuments, 1854-1967, by Jeff Barnes
- Publisher: The Donning Company
- Nonfiction Solidary
- American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland, by Marie Mutsuki MOckett
- Publisher: Graywolf Press
- Nonfiction Urban History
- My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City, by Miss Cassette, forward by Chris Ware
- Publisher: Bison Books
- Poetry
- Two-Toned Dress, by Lucy Adkins
- Publisher: Blue Light Press
- Poetry Honor
- Forever War, by Kate Gaskin
- Publisher: YesYes Books
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