The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a work of fiction on gay male themes. As the award is presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer, women and heterosexual men may also be nominated for or win the award.
Recipients +Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners and finalists Year Author Title Result 1989Winner Second SonFinalist Valley of the Shadow1990Eighty-SixedWinner CloserFinalist In Memory of Angel Clare Shy Sure of You1991Winner Finalist Afterlife Music I Never Dreamed Of1992What the Dead RememberWinner FriskFinalist Halfway Home Language We Use Up Here Vanishing Rooms1993Let the Dead Bury Their DeadWinner Almost HistoryFinalist Dream Life Latin Moon in Manhattan Winter Eyes1994Living UpstairsWinner Fragments that RemainFinalist Martin and John Scissors, Paper, Rock 1995Winner American StudiesFinalist Cultural Revolution Nightswimmer Sacred Lips of the Bronx1996Flesh and BloodWinner Dream BoyFinalist Father of Frankenstein Like People in History Mysterious Skin1997Funny BoyWinner IowaFinalist Pagan's Father 1998Winner GossipFinalist Plays Well With Others 1999Winner Koolaids: The Art of WarFinalist Where the Rainbow Ends2000Allan SteinWinner Comfort and JoyFinalist In September, the Light Changes 2001Winner Between DancesFinalist Guess Again 2002Winner In the City of Shy HuntersFinalist 2003At Swim, Two BoysWinner AvoidanceFinalist Boulevard Letters to Montgomery Clift 2004Lives of the Circus AnimalsWinner BeijingFinalist War Against the Animals Where the Boys Are2005Winner CollageFinalist 2006Winner Acqua CaldaFinalist Faith for Beginners What We Do Is Secret2007SuspensionWinner Alternatives to SexFinalist Every Visible Thing Izzy and Eve Now Is the Hour2008Call Me By Your NameWinner Dark ReflectionsFinalist Fellow Travelers First Person Plural2009We DisappearWinnerStray Dog WinterFinalist 2010Lake OverturnWinnerSaid and DoneFinalist Salvation Army Silver Lake 2011Union AtlanticWinner By NightfallFinalistChildren of the SunConsolation2012Winner LecheFinalist 2013Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky ClubWinner Finalist Lovers Sighs Too Deep For Words Spreadeagle These Things Happen Unbuilt Projects2014 with Suzanne Jill Levine (trans.)Mundo CruelWinner with Jerry Rosco (ed.)Finalist Damn Love Fire Year Local Souls Necessary Errors 2015I Loved You MoreWinner All I Love and KnowFinalist Barracuda Bitter EdenLittle Reef and Other Stories Next to Nothing Souljah 2016God in PinkWinner Finalist Breathing Lessons Immaculate Blue JD Still Life, Las Vegas 2017Winner Black DeutschlandFinalist Hide Jazz Moon Moonstone What Belongs to You2018After the Blue HourWinner Fimí Sílè ForeverFinalist Less Outside Is the Ocean This Is How It Begins2019Jonny AppleseedWinner Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego TylerFinalist History of Violence Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement Some Hell Speak No Evil State of the Nation 2020LotWinner with Frank Wynne (trans.)AnimaliaFinalist In West Mills Like This Afternoon Forever with Edgar Garbelotto (trans.)Lord Murmur On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 2021NeotenicaWinner CleannessFinalistReal LifeShuggie Bain This Town Sleeps2022100 BoyfriendsWinnerBrickmakersFinalistGordoMy Good SonRainbow Milk2023Winner, trans. by Anna KushnerCall Me CassandraFinalistGod's Children Are Little Broken Things , trans. by Edgar GarbelottoHugs and CuddlesMy Government Means To Kill Me2024 Family MealWinner American Scholar Finalist Blackouts Brother & Sister Enter the Forest I Will Greet the Sun Again2025Henry HenryWinnerCinema LoveFinalistIn Tongues; translated by Mara Faye LethemNapalm in the HeartOur Evenings2026Nova Scotia HouseWinnerMothers and SonsFinalistWaiting for Something Else
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Lambda Literary Awards