1st Lambda Literary Awards

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

Special awards

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

Category	Winner	Nominated
AIDS Literature	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	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	Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty	Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library Christopher Davis, Valley of the Shadow Robert Ferro, Second Son Stephen Spender, The Temple
Gay Mystery/Science Fiction	Michael Nava, Golden Boy	Donald Ward, Death Takes the Stage Michael Bishop, Unicorn Mountain Joseph Hansen, Obedience George Baxt, Who’s Next
Gay Non-Fiction	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	Michael Nava, Golden Boy 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	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	Dorothy Allison, Trash: Short Stories	Sarah Schulman, After Delores Camarin Grae, The Secret in the Bird Jan Clausen, The Prosperine Papers Rita Mae Brown, Bingo
Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction	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	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	Dorothy Allison, Trash: Short Stories	A. Weiss and G. Schiller, Before Stonewall Alison Bechdel, More Dykes to Watch Out For Pat Califia, Macho Sluts Karen Thompson and Julie Andrzejewski, Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Poetry	Carl Morse and Joan Larkin, eds., Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time	Josephine Balmer, Sappho: Poems and Fragments Paul Monette, Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog May Sarton, The Silence Now James Merrill, The Inner Room

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