33rd Lambda Literary Awards
The 33rd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2020.[1][2] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no public ceremony; instead, the winners were announced in a livestreamed virtual gala.[3]
Nominees were announced in March 2021.[4]
Special awards
Category | Winner |
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Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Nancy Agabian[5] |
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Sarah Gerard, Brontez Purnell[5] |
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Taylor Johnson, T Kira Madden[5] |
Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction | Ana-Maurine Lara[6] |
Nominees and winners
Category | Winner | Nominated |
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Bisexual Fiction | Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much |
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Bisexual Nonfiction | Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays |
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Bisexual Poetry | Aricka Foreman, Salt Body Shimmer |
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Gay Fiction | Joon Oluchi Lee, Neotenica |
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Gay Memoir/Biography | Mohsin Zaidi, A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance |
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Gay Poetry | Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine |
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Gay Romance | Felice Stevens, The Ghost and Charlie Muir |
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Lesbian Fiction | Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical |
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Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers |
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Lesbian Poetry | Pamela Sneed, Funeral Diva |
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Lesbian Romance | Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars |
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LGBTQ Anthology | Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction |
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LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies |
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LGBTQ Drama | Yilong Liu, The Book of Mountains and Seas |
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LGBTQ Erotica | Lena Suksi, The Nerves |
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LGBTQ Comics | Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine |
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LGBTQ Mystery | Tom Ryan, I Hope You’re Listening |
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LGBTQ Nonfiction | Ashon T. Crawley, The Lonely Letters |
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LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel |
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LGBTQ Studies | Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World |
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LGBTQ Young Adult | Mike Curato, Flamer | |
Transgender Fiction | Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night |
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Transgender Nonfiction | J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, The Black Trans Prayer Book |
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Transgender Poetry | Sade LaNay, I Love You and I'm Not Dead |
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References
- ^ "2021 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ Jane Henderson, "Lambda Literary Awards announce winners". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 1, 2021.
- ^ "Lambda Literary Awards: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain, Samantha Irby's Wow, No Thank You featured in finalists' lists". Firstpost, March 16, 2021.
- ^ Jim Provenzano, "Lambda Literary Awards 2021 finalists announced". Bay Area Reporter, March 15, 2021.
- ^ a b c Leah Rachel Van Essen, "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards". Book Riot, June 2, 2021.
- ^ Dale Edwards, "Literary prize honoring Randall Kenan awarded". The News of Orange County, June 1, 2021.
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