Images of the
19th Annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
at the UMD Weber Music Hall

2006 NEMBA Authors and Illustrators

Guest Speaker: Will Weaver

2006 NEMBA Award Winners:

Gunnard Landers, winner in the category of Fiction, Poetry, Drama for
The North Shore

with Bill Sozansky, UMD Library Director

Leanne Denise Knott, honorable mention in the catgory of Fiction, Poetry, Drama for
The Keeper's Daughter

A representative for Matthew Sanford, winnner in the category of Nonfiction, Memoir for
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence

Richard Hudelson, honorable mention in the category of Nonfiction, Memoir for
By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth

Mila Horak, illustrator and Kelly Emerling Rauzi, author, winners in the category of Children's Literature for
Fearless John: The Legend of John Beargrease

David Geister, illustrator and Aimee Jackson from Sleeping Bear Press for Kathy-jo Wargin, author,
honorable mention in the category of Children's Literature for
The Legend of Minnesota

Images from the Book Fair