Awards & Winners

Dorothy Allison

Date of Birth 11-April-1949
Place of Birth Greenville
(South Carolina, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Allison, Dorothy
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author, Poet
Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her writing includes themes of class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. She has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards.

Awards by Dorothy Allison

Check all the awards nominated and won by Dorothy Allison.

1998


Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Honored for : Cavedweller

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Cavedweller

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

1995


Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award
Honored for : Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Lambda Literary Award for Small Press Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction Bastard Out of Carolina

1988


Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Small Press Book Award
Honored for : Trash
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Honored for : Trash

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Trash
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Small Press Book Award Trash