2010 Colorado Book Awards - Winners Announced!

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ASPEN, CO­ - Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book announced the winners of the 2010 Colorado Book Award winners on Friday, June 25 at 2 p.m. at the Doerr-Hosier Center in Aspen. Sponsored this year by Vectra Bank and Outskirts Press, the Colorado Book Awards is one of the oldest state book award programs in the country, and the 2010 Winners represent the finest literary talent in the state and nation.  The Colorado Book Awards recognizes outstanding contributions by Colorado authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers in multiple categories.  This year, 146 books were entered into in the competition in thirteen categories.

The winners of the 2010 Colorado Book awards are:

Anthology/Collection
	A Dozen on Denver: Stories, Rocky Mountain News, editor, Fulcrum Publishing
Biography
	Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists, by Dyana Z. Furmansky, The University of Georgia Press
Children's Literature
	Grandmother, Have the Angels Come? by Denise Vega, illustrated by Erin Eitter Kono, Little, Brown and Company
Creative Nonfiction
	Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe, Scribner
General Nonfiction
	Voices of the American West by Corinne Platt & Meredith Ogilby, Fulcrum Publishing
Genre Fiction - Historical & Romance
	A Land Beyond Ravens: Book 4 of the Macsen's Treasure Series by Kathleen Cunningham Guler, Bardsong Press
Genre Fiction - Mystery/Thriller & Sci-Fi/Fantasy
	The Radio Magician and Other Stories by James Van Pelt, Fairwood Press
History
	First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army by Peter Eichstaedt, Lawrence Hill Books
Juvenile Literature
	Artsy-Fartsy: An Aldo Zelnick Comic Novel by Karla Oceanak, illustrated by Kendra Spanjer, Bailiwick Press
Literary Fiction
	Spoon by Robert Greer, Fulcrum Publishing
Pictorial
	Phlogs: Journey to the heart of the human predicament by George Stranahan & Nicole Beinstein Strait, People's Press
Poetry
	Theory of Mind: New & Selected Poems by Bin Ramke, Omnidawn Publishing
Young Adult Literature
	The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau, Delacorte Press