When the 2019 Annual Minnesota Book Awards finalists were announced in Saint Paul on January 26, 2019 by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, Tim Cochrane’s book, Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade (University of Minnesota Press) was named as a finalist.
Tim’s book is one of four entered into the Minnesota nonfiction category. Cary Griffith’s Gunflint Burning: Fire on the Boundary Waters is also up as a finalist in this category.
Twenty seven (27) judges from around the state – writers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and others from the literary community, picked finalists in nine categories.
Award winners will be announced at the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 6, at the InterContinental Hotel Saint Paul Riverfront. Presenting the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards will be Education Minnesota.
The Minnesota Book Awards is a yearlong program of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library that fosters our statewide literary arts community.
The process begins in the fall with book submissions and continues through winter with two rounds of judging until winners are announced at the Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony. 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 www.thefriends.org/mnba.
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