Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Ryan McBride - Thursday Jun 05 2008 4:23 pm
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Winners of the 20th annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced recently. The awards are sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, whose mission is to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature.
According to the press release,
Winners were chosen by a jury of judges who come from all walks of literary life: journalists, authors, booksellers, librarians, playwrights, illustrators. In all, 85 judges participated in the selection of winners from the pool of 463 books that were nominated by 190 publishers.
A complete list of winners follows.
- First Person Queer by and (Anthologies)
- The View From Here by (Arts and Culture) Hero by (Childrens/Young Adult)
- Return to the Caffe Cino edited by and George Birimisa (Drama/Theatre)
- Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica by (Erotica)
- Gay Artists in Modern American Culture by (Nonfiction)
- Blackbird and Wolf by (Poetry)
- The Dust of Wonderland by (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror)
- Between Women by (LGBT Studies)
- Split Screen by (Bisexual Interest)
- Transparent by (Transgender Interest)
- Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by (Lesbian Debut Fiction)
- A Push and a Shove by (Debut Gay Fiction)
- The IHOP Papers by (Women's Fiction)
- Out of Love by (Women's Romance)
- Wall of Silence by (Women's Mystery)
- And Now We Are Going to Have a Party by (Women's Memoir/Biography)
- Call Me By Your Name by (Men's Fiction)
- Changing Tides by (Men's Romance)
- Murder in the Rue Chartres by (Men's Mystery)
- Mississippi Sissy by (Men's Memoir/Biography)
For a listing of all winners and nominees from this and previous years, visit www.lambdaliterary.org.
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