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Staci Drouillard
Staci Lola Drouillard has won ANOTHER book award. This time for her wonderful stories about her enduring, loving, tough as nails aunts. The book is titled Seven Aunts and was published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Seven Aunts won Minnesota Book Award in the Memoir & Creative Nonfiction category, which was sponsored by Bradshaw Celebration of Life Centers.
Staci received her award at the May 2, 2023, Minnesota Book Awards ceremony which was held at the Ordway. The Minnesota Book Awards is a yearlong project undertaken by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library.
In summing up Seven Aunts the presenters wrote, “In this multifaceted portrait of her aunties, Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history. Unfolding against a personal view of the settler invasion of the Midwest by men who logged, fished, hunted, and mined, it reveals the true heart and soul of that history: women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to secure a place in the world for the next generation.
“Staci Lola Drouillard, a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe, lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. She has won the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History and the Northeast Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction.”
The Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History was awarded to Staci by the Midwestern History Association for her book Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe.
Minnesota Book Awards
The Minnesota Book Awards is a yearlong program of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library that connects readers and writers throughout the state with the stories of our neighbors. The process begins in the fall with book submissions and continues through winter with two rounds of judging. Winners are announced at the Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony each spring. Woven throughout the season are events that promote the authors and connect the world of Minnesota books – writers, artists, illustrators, publishers, editors, and more – to readers throughout the state. In recognition of this and its other statewide programs and services, the Library of Congress has recognized The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the state’s designated Center for the Book. For more information visit thefriends.org/mnba.
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