The winners of the Lambda Literary Awards, which honor outstanding achievement in LGBTQ+ books, were announced at an online ceremony on Saturday.
Yael van der Wouden won the lesbian fiction award for The Safekeep, her novel that previously won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Nino Bulling won the transgender fiction prize for Firebugs, with Muriel Leung winning the bisexual fiction award for How To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster and Allen Bratton taking home the gay fiction prize for Henry Henry.
Brad Gooch was named the winner of the gay memoir/biography award for Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, while Sandra Gail Lambert won the lesbian memoir/biography prize for My Withered Legs and Other Essays.
The transgender nonfiction prize went to KB Brookins for Pretty, while the LGBTQ+ children’s book prize was awarded to Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five, written by Phil Bildner and illustrated by Daniel J. O’Brien.
Mallory in Full Color, written by Elisa Stone Leahy and illustrated by Maine Diaz, won in the LGBTQ+ middle grade category, and the LGBTQ+ young adult prize went to Icarus by K. Ancrum.
The Lambda Literary Awards, or Lammys, were founded in 1989. Previous winners include Jennifer Finney Boylan for She’s Not There, Saeed Jones for How We Fight for Our Lives, and Catherine Lacey for Biography of X. A full list of this year’s winners is available at the Lambda Literary website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
