1st_Lambda_Literary_Awards
1st Lambda Literary Awards
1989 Lambda Literary Awards
The 1st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1989 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1988.
More information Category, Winner ...
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Editor's Choice | Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski, Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? |
| Publisher Service | Sasha Alyson, Alyson Books |
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More information Category, Author ...
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS Literature | Paul Monette | Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir | Winner |
| Emmanuel Dreuilhe | Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS | Finalist | |
| Andrew Holleran | Ground Zero | Finalist | |
| Ines Rieder and Patricia Ruppelt | AIDS: The Women | Finalist | |
| Cindy Ruskin , Matt Herron, and Deborah Zemke | The Quilt | Finalist | |
| Gay Debut Fiction | Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming Pool Library | Winner |
| C.F. Borgman | River Road | Finalist | |
| Russell A. Brown | Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde | Finalist | |
| Joe Keenan | Blue Heaven | Finalist | |
| Stan Leventhal | Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square | Finalist | |
| Gay Fiction | Edmund White | The Beautiful Room Is Empty | Winner |
| Christopher Davis | Valley of the Shadow | Finalist | |
| Robert Ferro | Second Son | Finalist | |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming Pool Library | Finalist | |
| Stephen Spender | The Temple | Finalist | |
| Gay Mystery/Science Fiction | Michael Nava | Golden Boy | Winner |
| George Baxt | Who’s Next | Finalist | |
| Michael Bishop | Unicorn Mountain | Finalist | |
| Joseph Hansen | Obedience | Finalist | |
| Donald Ward | Death Takes the Stage | Finalist | |
| Gay Non-Fiction | Paul Monette | Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir | Winner |
| Betty Berzon | Permanent Partners | Finalist | |
| Warren Blumenfeld and Diane Raymond | Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life | Finalist | |
| Eric Marcus | The Male Couple’s Guide to Living Together | Finalist | |
| Will Roscoe | Living the Spirit | Finalist | |
| Gay Small Press | Ahmad al-Tifashi with Edward A. Lacey (trans.) | The Delight of Hearts, or What You Will Not Find in Any Book | Winner |
| Michael Nava | Golden Boy | Winner | |
| Thomas Cowan | Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World | Finalist | |
| Charles Jurrist | Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction | Finalist | |
| Leigh W. Rutledge | Unnatural Quotations | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Madelyn Arnold | Bird-Eyes | Winner |
| Joyce Bright | Sunday’s Child | Finalist | |
| Judy Grahn | Mundane’s World | Finalist | |
| Denise Ohio | The Finer Grain | Finalist | |
| Katherine Sturtevant | A Mistress Moderately Fair | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Fiction | Dorothy Allison | Trash: Short Stories | Winner |
| Rita Mae Brown | Bingo | Finalist | |
| Jan Clausen | The Prosperine Papers | Finalist | |
| Camarin Grae | The Secret in the Bird | Finalist | |
| Sarah Schulman | After Delores | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction | Antoinette Azolakov | Skiptrace | Winner |
| Sandy Bayer | The Crystal Curtain | Finalist | |
| Judy Grahn | Mundane’s World | Finalist | |
| Dolores Klaich | Heavy Gilt | Finalist | |
| Claire McNab | Lessons in Murder | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Non-Fiction | Sarah Lucia Hoagland | Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value | Winner |
| Betty Berzon | Permanent Partners | Finalist | |
| Karla Jay | The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien | Finalist | |
| Audre Lorde | A Burst of Light | Finalist | |
| Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski | Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? | Finalist | |
| Lesbian Small Press | Dorothy Allison | Trash: Short Stories | Winner |
| Alison Bechdel | More Dykes to Watch Out For | Finalist | |
| Pat Califia | Macho Sluts | Finalist | |
| Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski | Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? | Finalist | |
| A. Weiss and G. Schiller | Before Stonewall | Finalist | |
| Poetry | Carl Morse and Joan Larkin (eds.) | Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time | Winner |
| Josephine Balmer | Sappho: Poems and Fragments | Finalist | |
| James Merrill | The Inner Room | Finalist | |
| Paul Monette | Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog | Finalist | |
| May Sarton | The Silence Now | Finalist |
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