1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Author: Edit Team

January 13, 2010

AIDS

• WINNER: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
• The Quilt by Cindy Ruskin, Matt Herron and Deborah Zemke (Pocket Books)
• AIDS: The Women edited by Ines Rieder and Patricia Ruppelt (Cleis Press)
• Ground Zero by Andrew Holleran (William Morrow)
• Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS by Emmanuel Dreuilhe (Hill & Wang)

EDITOR’S CHOICE

• WINNER: Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson And Julie Andrzejewski (Spinsters/Aunt Lute)

GAY MEN’S DEBUT FICTION

• WINNER: The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (Random House)
• River Road by C.F. Borgman (New American Library)
• Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square by Stan Levanthal (Banned Books)
• Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan (Viking)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde by Russell A. Brown (St. Martin’s Press)

GAY MEN’S FICTION

• WINNER: The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White (Alfred A. Knopf)
• The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (Random House)
• Valley of the Shadow by Christopher Davis (St. Martin’s Press)
• Second Son by Robert Ferro (Crown Publishing)
• The Temple by Stephen Spender (Grove Press)

GAY MEN’S MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION

• WINNER: Goldenboy by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
• Death Takes the Stage by Donald Ward (St. Martin’s Press)
• Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop (Willliam Morrow)
• Obedience by Joseph Hansen (Mysterious Press)
• Who’s Next by George Baxt (International Polygonics)

GAY MEN’S NONFICTION

• WINNER: Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
• Permanent Partners by Betty Berzon, Ph.D. (E.P. Dutton)
• The Male Couple’s Guide to Living Together by Eric Marcus (Harper & Row)
• Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life by Warren Blumenfeld and Diane Raymond (Philosophical Library)
• Living the Spirit edited by Will Roscoe (St. Martin’s Press)

GAY MEN’S SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD

• WINNER-Tie: Goldenboy by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
• WINNER-Tie: The Delight of Hearts by Ahmad al-Tifashi (Gay Sunshine Press)
• Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction edited by Charles Jurrist (Alyson Publications)
• Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World by Thomas Cowan (Mulvey Books)
• Unnatural Quotations by Leigh W. Rutledge (Alyson Publications)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

• WINNER: Bird-Eyes by Madelyn Arnold (Seal Press)
• Sunday’s Child by Joyce Bright (Naiad Press)
• Mundane’s World by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)
• The Finer Grain by Denise Ohio (Naiad Press)
• A Mistress Moderately Fair by Katherine Sturtevant (Alyson Publications)

LESBIAN FICTION

• WINNER: Trash by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand Books)
• After Delores by Sarah Schulman (E.P. Dutton)
• The Secret in the Bird by Camarin Grae (Naiad Press)
• The Prosperine Papers by Jan Clausen (Crossing Press)
• Bingo by Rita Mae Brown (Bantam)

LESBIAN MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION

• WINNER: Skiptrace by Antoinette Azolakov (Banned Books)
• Lessons In Murder by Claire McNab (Naiad Press)
• Mundane’s World by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)
• Heavy Gilt by Dolores Klaich (Naiad Press)
• The Crystal Curtain by Sandy Bayer (Alyson Publications)

LESBIAN NONFICTION

• WINNER: Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value by Sarah Lucia Hoagland (Institute for Lesbian Studies)
• The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien by Karla Jay (Indiana University Press)
• Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson & Julie Andzrejewski (Spinsters/Aunt Lute)
• A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde (Firebrand Books)
• Permanent Partners by Betty Berzon, Ph.D. (E.P. Dutton)

LESBIAN SMALL PRESS BOOK AWARD

• WINNER: Trash by Dorothy Allison (Firebrand Books)
• Before Stonewall by A. Weiss and G. Schiller (Naiad Press)
• More Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (Firebrand Books)
• Macho Sluts by Pat Califia (Alyson Publications)
• Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson & Julie Andrzejewski (Spinsters/Aunt Lute)

POETRY

• WINNER: Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time, edited by Carl Morse & Joan Larkin (St. Martin’s Press)
• Sappho: Poems and Fragments translated by Josephine Balmer (Meadowland Books)
• Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog by Paul Monette (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Silence Now by May Sarton (W.W. Norton)
• The Inner Room by James Merrill (Alfred A. Knopf)

PUBLISHER’S SERVICE AWARD

• WINNER: Sasha Alyson, Alyson Publications