Western Writers of America announces 2021 Spur Award winners
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Monday, March 8, 2021
ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Robert M. Utley, the 91-year-old "Dean of Western History," and David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, are among the 2021 Spur Award winners, Western Writers of America has announced.
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- ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Robert M. Utley, the 91-year-old "Dean of Western History," and David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, are among the 2021 Spur Award winners, Western Writers of America has announced.
- Utley's The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas, published by the University of Nebraska Press, won for Best Historical Nonfiction.
- Weiden's Winter Counts (Echo/HarperCollins) won Spurs for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel.
- Winners and finalists are scheduled to be honored June 16-19 at WWA's convention in Loveland, Colo.
WWA promotes and honors the best in Western literature with the annual Spur Awards, selected by panels of judges.