The results are in and two UNP books have been named winners for the 2011 Nebraska Book Award!

Lamb Bright Saviors by Robert Vivian won the Fiction Award, and Stolen Horses by Dan O'Brien won the Fiction Honor Award.

Lamb Bright Saviors follows several troubled young men, a wandering preacher, and his young assistant, whose lives intersect for a few hours on a desolate Nebraska farmstead.

Stolen Horses takes readers to McDermot, Nebraska, a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley, as a local journalist uncovers a medical scandal epitomizing the problems facing the community.

Award winners will be honored on at the Nebraska Center for the Book’s Celebration of Nebraska Books on Oct. 22 at the Leid Center in Lincoln, Neb.

Congrats to Robert and Dan!

For a complete list of winners, click here.