Lambda Literary Awards 1989
Winners and nominees of the 1989 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
AIDS literature
- ✦AIDS: The Women — Ines Rieder (nominee)
- ✦Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS — Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe (nominee)
Gay Debut Fiction
- ✦ River Road (nominee)
- ✦ Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde (nominee)
- ✦ Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square (nominee)
- ✦Blue Heaven — Joe Keenan(nominee)
- ✦River Road(nominee)
- ✦Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde(nominee)
- ✦Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦ Second Son (nominee)
- ✦ Valley of the Shadow (nominee)
- ✦Second Son(nominee)
- ✦Valley of the Shadow(nominee)
Gay Mystery or Science Fiction
- ✦Obedience — Joseph Hansen(nominee)
- ✦ Death Takes the Stage (nominee)
- ✦Who's Next — George Baxt (nominee)
- ✦Death Takes the Stage(nominee)
Gay Non-fiction
- ✦Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life — Diane Raymond (nominee)
- ✦Looking At Gay and Lesbian Life — Warren Blumenfeld (nominee)
- ✦ Living the Spirit (nominee)
- ✦The Male Couple's Guide to Living Together — Eric Marcus (nominee)
- ✦Permanent Partners — Betty Berzon (nominee)
- ✦Living the Spirit(nominee)
Gay Small Press
- ✦ Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World (nominee)
- ✦ Unnatural Quotations (nominee)
- ✦Shadows of Love: American Gay Fiction(nominee)
- ✦Gay Men & Women Who Enriched the World(nominee)
- ✦Unnatural Quotations(nominee)
Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award
- 🏆 Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? (winner)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
- 🏆Bird-Eyes — Madelyn Arnold (winner)
- ✦The Finer Grain — Denise Ohio (nominee)
- ✦ A Mistress Moderately Fair (nominee)
- ✦ Sunday's Child (nominee)
- ✦A Mistress Moderately Fair(nominee)
- ✦Sunday's Child(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Trash — Dorothy Allison(winner)
- 🏆Trash: Short Stories — Dorothy Allison(winner)
- 🏆Trash — Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (winner)
- ✦The Secret in the Bird — Camarin Grae (nominee)
- ✦ Camarin Grae (nominee)
- ✦The Prosperine Papers — Jan Clausen (nominee)
- ✦ Jan Clausen (nominee)
- ✦Rita Mae Brown(nominee)
- ✦After Delores — Sarah Schulman(nominee)
- ✦Sarah Schulman(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery or Science Fiction
- 🏆Skiptrace — Antoinette Azolakov (winner)
- ✦Heavy Gilt — Dolores Klaich (nominee)
- ✦ The Crystal Curtain (nominee)
- ✦Lessons In Murder(nominee)
- ✦The Crystal Curtain(nominee)
Lesbian Non-fiction
- ✦ Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? (nominee)
- ✦A Burst of Light — Audre Lorde(nominee)
- ✦Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value — Sarah Hoagland (nominee)
- ✦Permanent Partners — Betty Berzon (nominee)
- ✦Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?(nominee)
Lesbian Small Press
- 🏆Trash — Dorothy Allison(winner)
- 🏆Trash — Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (winner)
- ✦ Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? (nominee)
- ✦ Before Stonewall (nominee)
- ✦More Dykes to Watch Out For — Alison Bechdel(nominee)
- ✦Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?(nominee)
- ✦Before Stonewall(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir — Paul Monette(winner)
Poetry
- ✦Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog — Paul Monette(nominee)
- ✦Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time — Carl Morse (nominee)
- ✦The Silence Now — May Sarton(nominee)
- ✦Sappho: Poems and Fragments translated — Josephine Balmer (nominee)
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