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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Ohioana Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Ohioana Book Awards, including seven book awards and the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">First given in 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards are the second oldest, and among the most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation. Nearly every major writer from Ohio in
the past 82 years has been honored, from James Thurber to Toni Morrison.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Six of the Ohioana Book Award winners were selected by juries. The Readers’ Choice Award was determined by voters in a public online poll. More than 2,000 votes were cast in this
year’s Readers’ Choice Award poll!</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C82613">Ohioana Book Awards</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Listed below are the 2023 Ohioana Book Award winners. Click on the title to learn more about the author and their winning book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Nonfiction</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">: Ross Gay,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ross-gay/inciting-joy/9781643753041/"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">Inciting
Joy</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Fiction:</span></strong><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">Celeste
Ng,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710187/our-missing-hearts-by-celeste-ng/"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">Our
Missing Hearts</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Poetry:</span></strong><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">Saeed
Jones,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/products/alive-at-the-end-of-the-world"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">Alive
at the End of the World</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">About Ohio or an Ohioan:</span></strong><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">Kelcey
Ervick<em>,</em><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705548/the-keeper-by-kelcey-ervick/"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">The
Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Middle Grade/Young Adult:</span></strong><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">Jasmine
Warga,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-rovers-story-jasmine-warga?variant=39999856345122"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">A
Rover’s Story</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Juvenile:</span></strong><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">Marcy
Campbell,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667548/the-more-you-give-by-marcy-campbell-illustrated-by-francesca-sanna/"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">The
More You Give</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Readers’ Choice:</span></strong><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#444444">John
Scalzi,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765389138/thekaijupreservationsociety"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#2D5C88;text-decoration:none">The
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="xxcontentpasted1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">The Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant is a competitive prize. Named for Ohioana’s second director
and given since 1982, the Marvin Grant is awarded to an Ohio writer age 30 or younger who has not yet published a book. The 2023 Marvin Grant winner is Kortney Morrow. Kortney spent her early years making up stories, and she never stopped. Her writing has
been featured or is forthcoming in</span></span><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">The
Academy of American Poets</span></em><span class="xxcontentpasted1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">,</span></span><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Obsidian</span></em><span class="xxcontentpasted1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">,</span></span><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Prairie
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she’s not writing, you can find her daydreaming on her front porch. Kortney lives in Cleveland, where she was born and raised. Her winning entry will appear in this fall’s</span></span><span class="xxapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Ohioana</span></em><span class="xxcontentpasted1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#444444">Quarterly</span></em><span class="xxcontentpasted1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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