The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013. [1] The list of nominees was released on March 6. [1]
The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America. [2]
Category | Winner |
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Pioneer Award | Kate Bornstein [2] |
Trustee Award | Alison Bechdel [2] |
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award | Imogen Binnie, Charles Rice-González [2] |
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Michael Thomas Ford, Radclyffe [2] |
Category | Winner | Nominated |
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Bisexual Fiction | Susan Choi, My Education [2] |
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Bisexual Non-Fiction | Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television [2] |
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Gay Erotica | Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox [2] |
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Gay Fiction | Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel [2] |
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Gay Memoir/Biography | Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals [2] |
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Gay Mystery | Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera [2] |
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Gay Poetry | Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden [2] |
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Gay Romance | TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown [2] |
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Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories [2] |
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Lesbian Fiction | Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water [2] |
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Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic [2] |
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Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert [2] |
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Lesbian Poetry | Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall [2] |
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Lesbian Romance | Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate [2] |
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LGBT Anthology | Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction Jim Elledge and David Groff, Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners [2] |
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LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing [2] |
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LGBT Debut Fiction | Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar [2] |
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LGBT Drama | Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm [2] |
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LGBT Graphic Novel | Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir [2] |
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LGBT Non-Fiction | Hilton Als, White Girls [2] |
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LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver [2] |
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LGBT Studies | Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence [2] |
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Transgender Fiction | Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic [2] |
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Transgender Non-Fiction | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco [2] |
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