https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/
The winners for the 2020 Minnesota Book Awards were announced on Tuesday, April 28, in the first-ever virtual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony.
2020 Winners
Children’s Literature
Sponsor: Books for Africa
A Map Into the World
By Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Seo Kim
Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group*
General Nonfiction
Sponsor: Brainfuse
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
by David Treuer
Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House
Genre Fiction
Sponsor: Macalester College
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
By Marlon James
Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Sponsor: Bradshaw Celebration of Life Centers
All the Wild Hungers
By Karen Babine
Milkweed Editions*
Middle Grade Literature
Sponsor: Education Minnesota
The Line Tender
By Kate Allen
Dutton Children’s Books/Penguin Random House
Minnesota Nonfiction
Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State
By Christopher P. Lehman
Minnesota Historical Society Press*
Novel & Short Story
Sponsor: College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University
Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions
by Sheila O’Connor
Rose Metal Press
Poetry
Sponsor: Wellington Management, Inc.
Bodega
By Su Hwang
Milkweed Editions*
Young Adult Literature
Sponsor: United Educators Credit Union
Catfishing on CatNet
By Naomi Kritzer
Tor Teen/Macmillan Publishing Group
