1st Lambda Literary Awards
The 1st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1989 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1988.
Special awards
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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 |