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The Minnesota Book Awards, a program of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, is a year-long program that fosters our statewide literary arts community and connects readers and writers throughout Minnesota.

05/14/2026
Drum roll please…we’ve come to the last award of the evening! Congratulations to Allen Eskens, author of “The Quiet Libr...
05/07/2026

Drum roll please…we’ve come to the last award of the evening! Congratulations to Allen Eskens, author of “The Quiet Librarian,” winner in the Genre Fiction category, sponsored by Macalester College. Congratulations to Allen and ALL the finalists and winners. Thanks again to presenting sponsor Education Minnesota and all of tonight’s sponsors and partners. Read local Minnesota!

For the Novel & Short Story category, sponsored by Minnesota Humanities Center, we’re pleased to announce the winner “As...
05/07/2026

For the Novel & Short Story category, sponsored by Minnesota Humanities Center, we’re pleased to announce the winner “Ashes to Ashes” by Thomas Maltman! We’re almost there!

The next award goes to “I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always” by Douglas Kearney, winner in the Poetry category, spon...
05/07/2026

The next award goes to “I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always” by Douglas Kearney, winner in the Poetry category, sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Jason Walz, author of “The Flip Side,” winner of this year’s award for the Young Adult Literature cat...
05/07/2026

Congratulations to Jason Walz, author of “The Flip Side,” winner of this year’s award for the Young Adult Literature category, sponsored by Red Balloon Bookshop. What a night!

Continuing with the youth categories, our next award goes to “Weird Sad and Silent” by Alison McGhee, from the Middle Gr...
05/07/2026

Continuing with the youth categories, our next award goes to “Weird Sad and Silent” by Alison McGhee, from the Middle Grade Literature category, sponsored by Education Minnesota. This is Alison’s fifth Minnesota Book Award, wow!

The award this year for Children’s Literature, sponsored by Beret Publishing, is “All the Stars in the Sky” by Art Couls...
05/07/2026

The award this year for Children’s Literature, sponsored by Beret Publishing, is “All the Stars in the Sky” by Art Coulson, illustrated by Winona Nelson. Congratulations!

“Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota During World War II” by Ka F. Wong is the winner of the Emilie Buch...
05/07/2026

“Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota During World War II” by Ka F. Wong is the winner of the Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction, sponsored by Annette and John Whaley

Our next winner is in the General Nonfiction category: “Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on th...
05/07/2026

Our next winner is in the General Nonfiction category: “Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie” by David Hage and Josephine Marcotty. Amazing! Stay tuned for more excitement at the !

We have our first winner of the evening! “Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage” by Kelly Foster Lundquist in the Memoir & Creat...
05/07/2026

We have our first winner of the evening! “Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage” by Kelly Foster Lundquist in the Memoir & Creative Nonfiction category. Congratulations Kelly, here we go!

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