Owls and Sharks lead the list of Minnesota Book Award winners Authors Jonathan C. Slaght and Kawai Strong Washburn were among those honored in a virtual celebration. April 29, 2021 8:01pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The Minnesota Book Awards honored writers both established and emerging Thursday night in their second consecutive virtual awards ceremony.
Here s the full list of winners:
Novel & short story: Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Washburn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Seven-year-old Noa falls overboard and is carefully, tenderly returned to the boat by sharks. Washburn s story is about a working-class Hawaiian family touched by the gods.
General nonfiction: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World s Largest Owl, by Slaght (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The author spent five winters in far eastern Russia, tracking, banding and studying the rare Blakiston s fish owl in order to unde