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1st Lambda Literary Awards

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The 1st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1989 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1988.

Special awards

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Category Winner
Editor's Choice Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski, Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Publisher Service Sasha Alyson, Alyson Books

Nominees and winners

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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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