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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
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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 ....

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