Lambda Literary Award - Gay Fiction (Awarded by Lambda Literary Foundation)

Awards List

2015

I Loved You More
(Winner)
Tom Spanbauer

Bitter Eden
(Finalist)
Tatamkhulu Afrika

Next to Nothing: Stories
(Finalist)
Keith Banner

The City of Palaces
(Finalist)
Michael Nava

I Loved You More
(Finalist)
Tom Spanbauer

Little Reef and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Michael Carroll

All I Love and Know
(Finalist)
Judith Frank

Barracuda
(Finalist)
Christos Tsiolkas

Souljah
(Finalist)
John R. Gordon

2014

Mundo Cruel
(Winner)
Luis Negron

The City of Devi
(Finalist)
Manil Suri

Damn Love
(Finalist)
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara

An Honest Ghost
(Finalist)
Rick Whitaker

Necessary Errors
(Finalist)
Caleb Crain

Local Souls: Novellas
(Finalist)
Allan Gurganus

Fire Year
(Finalist)
Jason Friedman

A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Glenway Wescott

2013

Lovers
(Finalist)
Daniel Arsand

The Absolutist
(Finalist)
John Boyne

The Lava in My Bones
(Finalist)
Barry Webster

The Paternity Test
(Finalist)
Michael Lowenthal

Sighs Too Deep For Words
(Finalist)
William Jack Sibley

Unbuilt Projects
(Finalist)
Paul Lisicky

A Horse Named Sorrow
(Finalist)
Trebor Healey

These Things Happen
(Finalist)
Richard Kramer

2012

Leche
(Finalist)
R. Zamora Linmark

The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
(Finalist)
Paul Russell

2011

Union Atlantic
(Winner)
Adam Haslett

Children of the Sun
(Finalist)
Max Schaefer

By Nightfall
(Finalist)
Michael Cunningham

2010

Children of the Sun
(Finalist)
Max Schaefer

By Nightfall
(Finalist)
Michael Cunningham

2009

Salvation Army
(Finalist)
Abdellah Taia

Said and Done
(Finalist)
James Morrison

The River in Winter
(Finalist)
Matt Dean

2008

We Disappear
(Winner)
Scott Heim

The Torturer's Wife
(Finalist)
Thomas Glave

2006

Suspension
(Winner)
Robert Westfield

2005

The Sluts
(Winner)
Dennis Cooper

What We Do Is Secret
(Nominee)
Kief Hillsbery

2004

The Haunted Hillbilly
(Nominee)
Derek McCormack
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2003

Beijing
(Nominee)
Philip Gambone

Where The Boys Are
(Nominee)
William J. Mann

2002

Avoidance
(Nominee)
Michael Lowenthal

2001

The Practical Heart
(Winner)
Allan Gurganus

1999

Allan Stein
(Winner)
Matthew Stadler

1998

An Arrow's Flight
(Winner)
Mark Merlis

1997

The Far Euphrates
(Winner)
Aryeh Lev Stollman

Plays Well with Others
(Nominee)
Allan Gurganus

1996

Funny Boy
(Winner)
Shyam Selvadurai

1989

Eighty-sixed
(Winner)
David B. Feinberg

1988

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
(Winner)
Edmund White

Award Categories

Anthologies

Anthology

Bisexual

Bisexual Fiction

Bisexual Literature

Children/Young Adult

Debut Fiction

Drama/Theater

Editor's Choice

Erotica

Fiction Anthology

Gay Debut Fiction

Gay Erotica

Gay Fiction

Gay First Novel

Gay Memoir/Biography

Gay Men's SF/Fantasy

Gay Mystery

Gay Romance

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

Horror/SF/Fantasy

Humor

Lesbian Debut Fiction

Lesbian Erotica

Lesbian Fiction

Award Years

2015

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