Awards & Winners

Randall Kenan

Date of Birth 12-March-1963
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992. Kenan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award and the John Dos Passos Prize.

Awards by Randall Kenan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Randall Kenan.

1992


Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction
Honored for : Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Debut Fiction A Visitation of Spirits