The finalists for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards have been announced, you can see the entire list over at MinnPost. While I wish all the finalists hearty congratulations and the best of luck, I gotta give some mad props to the authors we’ve been fortunate to cover here on MN Reads:

• David Housewright was nominated Jelly’s Gold, and answered our 6 questions.
• We reviewed Scott Muskin’s The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson and he answered our 6 questions.
• Nicole Helget wrote one of my favorite novels of 2009 The Turtle Catcher (my review) and answered our 6 questions.
• Dobby Gibson’s poetry collection Skirmish was nominated, he answered our 6 questions too.
• Kent Nerburn was nominated for The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows which we haven’t had a chance to review yet, Ben’s a fan of his other books.
• Finally, Christa enjoyed the hell out of Kevin Kling’s Holiday Inn

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