Winners of the 2012 Minnesota Book Awards, a joint venture of Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, the St. Paul Public Library and the city of St. Paul, have been announced. This year's recipients are:
Children's literature: BookSpeak! Poems About Books by Laura Purdie Salas (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
General nonfiction: Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto (Rodale)
Genre fiction: Big Wheat by Richard A. Thompson (Poisoned Pen Press)
Memoir and creative nonfiction: A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer's and Love by Nancy Paddock (Blueroad Press)
Minnesota: Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota's First Generation of Women Artists by Julie L'Enfant (Afton Press)
Novel and short story: The Law of Miracles by Gregory Blake Smith (University of Massachusetts Press)
Poetry: Whorled by Ed Bok Lee (Coffee House Press)
Young people's literature: With or Without You by Brian Farrey (Simon Pulse/S&S)
Readers' choice award: The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis Scaletta (Knopf)
Kay Sexton Award for outstanding contributions to Minnesota's literary community: Allan Kornblum, founder of Coffee House Press
Book Artist Award: Bridget O'Malley and Amanda Degener of Cave Paper
Hognander Minnesota History Award: Mary Lethert Wingerd for North Country: The Making of Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press)
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