1st Lambda Literary Awards

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

Special awards

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

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
AIDS Literature Blue ribbon Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
  • Cindy Ruskin, Matt Herron and Deborah Zemke, The Quilt
  • Ines Rieder and Patricia Ruppelt, AIDS: The Women
  • Andrew Holleran, Ground Zero
  • Emmanuel Dreuilhe, Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS
Gay Debut Fiction Blue ribbon Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library
  • 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
Gay Fiction Blue ribbon Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Gay Mystery/Science Fiction Blue ribbon Michael Nava, Golden Boy
Gay Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
  • Betty Berzon, Permanent Partners
  • Eric Marcus, The Male Couple’s Guide to Living Together
  • Warren Blumenfeld and Diane Raymond, Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life
  • Will Roscoe, Living the Spirit
Gay Small Press Blue ribbon Michael Nava, Golden Boy
Blue ribbon Ahmad al-Tifashi (Edward A. Lacey, translator), The Delight of Hearts, or What You Will Not Find in Any Book
  • Charles Jurrist, Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction
  • Thomas Cowan, Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World
  • Leigh W. Rutledge, Unnatural Quotations
Lesbian Debut Fiction Blue ribbon Madelyn Arnold, Bird-Eyes
  • Joyce Bright, Sunday’s Child
  • Judy Grahn, Mundane’s World
  • Denise Ohio, The Finer Grain
  • Katherine Sturtevant, A Mistress Moderately Fair
Lesbian Fiction Blue ribbon Dorothy Allison, Trash: Short Stories
Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction Blue ribbon Antoinette Azolakov, Skiptrace
  • Claire McNab, Lessons in Murder
  • Judy Grahn, Mundane’s World
  • Dolores Klaich, Heavy Gilt
  • Sandy Bayer, The Crystal Curtain
Lesbian Non-Fiction Blue ribbon Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value
  • Karla Jay, The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien
  • Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski, Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
  • Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
  • Betty Berzon, Permanent Partners
Lesbian Small Press Blue ribbon Dorothy Allison, Trash: Short Stories
Poetry Blue ribbon Carl Morse and Joan Larkin, eds., Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time
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