AustLit
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The Lambda Awards are sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the USA's leading organisation for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender literature. The Awards are presented in twenty-one categories and are 'based principally on the quality of the writing and the LGBT content of the work. The sexual orientation of the author is secondary.'
Source: Lambda Literary Foundation website, http://www.lambdaliterary.org/
Sighted: 09/10/2007
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2022
winner (LGBTQ Comics) y Stone Fruit Lee Lai (illustrator), Melbourne : Brow Books , 2021 23674520 2021 single work graphic novel'Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seated personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties — Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother sister and Bron with her religious teenage sister who doesn’t fully grasp the complexities of gender identity. Taking a leap of faith, each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew.
'At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Stone Fruit reveals through intimately naturalistic dialog and blue-hued watercolor how painful it can be to truly become vulnerable to your loved ones — and how fulfilling it is to be finally understood for who you are. Lee Lai is one of the most exciting new voices to break into the comics medium and she has created one of the truly sophisticated graphic novel debuts in recent memory.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2019
winner (LGBTQ Graphic Novels) y The Lie and How We Told It United States of America (USA) : Fantagraphics Books , 2018 12884824 2018 single work graphic novel'After a chance encounter, two formerly close friends try to salvage whatever is left of their decaying relationship. They are in for an awkward, painful night that leaves them feeling lonelier, more uncertain, and more estranged than ever before. Parrish’s first graphic novel for Fantagraphics is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s ever-prevalent themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2006
winner (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror) y Izzy and Eve San Francisco : Green Candy Press , 2006 Z1296156 2006 single work novel