Awards & Winners

1988 Lambda Literary Award

Check winners and nominations of 1988 Lambda Literary Award. Check awards winners of 1988 Lambda Literary Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction

Antoinette Azolakov

Honored for : Skiptrace

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Nominee Nominated Work
Antoinette Azolakov Skiptrace
Claire McNab Lessons in Murder
Judy Grahn Mundane's World
Dolores Klaich Heavy Gilt
Sandy Bayer The Crystal Curtain
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery/Science Fiction

Michael Nava

Honored for : Goldenboy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Nava Goldenboy
Donald Ward Death Takes the Stage
Michael Bishop Unicorn Mountain
Joseph Hansen Obedience: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
George Baxt Who's Next
Lambda Literary Award for AIDS

Paul Monette

Honored for : Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Monette Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Matt Herron The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project
Deborah Zemke The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project
Cindy Ruskin The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project
Ines Rieder AIDS: The Women
Patricia Ruppelt AIDS: The Women
Andrew Holleran Ground Zero
Emmanuel Dreuilhe Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS
Lambda Literary Award for Editor's Choice Award

Karen Thompson, Julie Andrzejewski

Honored for : Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Debut Fiction

Alan Hollinghurst, Julie Andrzejewski

Honored for : The Swimming Pool Library

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Nominee Nominated Work
C.F. Borgman River Road
Stan Leventhal Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square
Joe Keenan Blue Heaven
Russell A. Brown Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction

Edmund White

Honored for : The Beautiful Room Is Empty

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Nominee Nominated Work
Edmund White The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming Pool Library
Julie Andrzejewski The Swimming Pool Library
Christopher Davis Valley of the Shadow
Robert Ferro Second Son
Stephen Spender The Temple
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Nonfiction

Paul Monette

Honored for : Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Monette Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Betty Berzon Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships That Last
Eric Marcus The Male Couple's Guide: Finding a Man, Making a Home, Building a Life
Warren J. Blumenfeld Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life
Diane Raymond Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life
Will Roscoe Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Small Press Book Award

Michael Nava

Honored for : Goldenboy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Nava Goldenboy
Ahmad al-Tifashi The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
Charles Jurrist Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction
Thomas Dale Cowan Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World
Leigh W. Rutledge Unnatural Quotations
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Small Press Book Award

Ahmad al-Tifashi

Honored for : The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book

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Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Nava Goldenboy
Ahmad al-Tifashi The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
Charles Jurrist Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction
Thomas Dale Cowan Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World
Leigh W. Rutledge Unnatural Quotations
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction

Madelyn Arnold

Honored for : Bird-Eyes

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Nominee Nominated Work
Madelyn Arnold Bird-Eyes
Joyce Bright Sunday\u2019s Child
Judy Grahn Mundane's World
Denise Ohio The Finer Grain
Katherine Sturtevant A Mistress Moderately Fair
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Dorothy Allison

Honored for : Trash

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Nominee Nominated Work
Dorothy Allison Trash
Sarah Schulman After Delores
Camarin Grae The Secret in the Bird
Jan Clausen The Prosperine Papers
Rita Mae Brown Bingo
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Sarah Hoagland

Honored for : Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sarah Hoagland Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value
Karla Jay The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien
Karen Thompson Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Julie Andrzejewski Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Audre Lorde A Burst of Light: Essays
Betty Berzon Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships That Last
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Small Press Book Award

Dorothy Allison

Honored for : Trash

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Nominee Nominated Work
Dorothy Allison Trash
Andrea Weiss Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
Greta Schiller Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
Alison Bechdel More Dykes to Watch Out For
Patrick Califia Macho Sluts
Julie Andrzejewski Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Karen Thompson Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Lambda Literary Award for Poetry

Joan Larkin, Carl Morse

Honored for : Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthology

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joan Larkin Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthology
Carl Morse Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthology
Josephine Balmer Sappho: Poems and Fragments
Paul Monette Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
May Sarton The Silence Now: New and Uncollected Earlier Poems
James Merrill The Inner Room
Lambda Literary Award for Publisher Service Award

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