Connecticut Center for the Book is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards. The awards recognize and honor authors and illustrators who have created the best books in or about our state in the past year.
Winners of the 2020 Connecticut Book Awards
Nonfiction
Yale Needs Women, How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant – Anne Gardiner Perkins, Sourcebooks
Poetry
Winner: Afterswarm– Margot Schilpp, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Honorable Mention: Without My Asking – Robert Cording, CavenKerry Press
Fiction
Winner: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press
Honorable Mention: How Fires End – Marco Rafalà, Little A
Young Readers
Fiction
New Kid – Jerry Craft, HarperCollins Children’s Books
Nonfiction
I See Sea Food, Sea Creatures that Look Like Food – Jenna Grodzicki, Lerner Publishing Group
Picture Books
The Night Is Yours – Abdul-Razak Zachariah, Dial Books for Young Readers
2020 Spirit of Connecticut Winner
Fiction
Old Newgate Road – Keith Scribner, Alfred A. Knopf