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27th Lambda Literary Awards
The 27th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 1, 2015, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2014."The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists" , March 4, 2015. The list of nominees was released on March 4. The ceremony was held at . Special awards Nominees and winners References {{Lambda Literary Awards[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambda Literary Awards
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted in 1989. The program has grown from 14 awards in early years to 24 awards today. Early categories such as HIV/AIDS literature were dropped as the prominence of the AIDS crisis within the gay community waned, and categories for bisexual and transgender literature were added as the community became more inclusive. In addition to the primary literary awards, Lambda Literary also presents a number of special awards. Award categories Current Notes 1 In both the bisexual and transgender categories, presentation may vary according to the number of eligible titles submitted in any given year. If the number of titles warrants, then separate awards are presented in either two (Fiction and Nonfiction, with the Fiction category inclusive of poetr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a British actor. His London stage appearances include '' Hamlet'', the Maniac in '' Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' (for which he received an Olivier Award), the lead in ''Bent'', The National Theatre of Scotland's '' The Bacchae'' and Samuel Beckett's ''Endgame'' at The Old Vic, opposite Daniel Radcliffe. On Broadway, he has appeared in '' The Threepenny Opera'', as the master of ceremonies in '' Cabaret'' (for which he won a Tony Award), '' Design for Living'', and a one-man adaptation of ''Macbeth''. Cumming's film roles include his performances in ''Emma'', '' GoldenEye'' and as Nightcrawler in '' X2'' (X-Men 2), Loki in '' Son of the Mask'', and as Fegan Floop in the ''Spy Kids'' trilogy. Cumming also appeared on '' The Good Wife'', for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Satellite Award. Cumming starred in the 2018–2019 CBS TV series ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Carroll (American Writer)
Michael Carroll is an American writer. =Biography= White published his debut short story collection, ''Little Reef,'' in 2014. The collection, which portrays characters that, according to the UW Press, are "people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can’t envision a future". The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards"The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists" , March 4, 2015. and won the |
Michael Nava
Michael Angel Nava (born September 16, 1954) is an American attorney and writer. He has worked on the staff for the California Supreme Court, and ran for a Superior Court position in 2010. He authored a ten-volume mystery series featuring Henry Rios, an openly gay protagonist who is a criminal defense lawyer. His novels have received seven Lambda Literary Awards and critical acclaim in the GLBT and Latino communities. Early life and family Nava grew up in Gardenland, a predominantly working-class Mexican neighborhood in Sacramento, California that he described as "not as an American suburb at all, but rather as a Mexican village, transported perhaps from Guanajuato, where my grandmother's family originated, and set down lock, stock and chicken coop in the middle of California." His maternal family settled there in 1920 after escaping from the Mexican Revolution. Nava's grandmother was an "influential force" whose "piety and humility was highlighted by her Catholic beliefs." At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatamkhulu Afrika
Ismail Joubert (7 December 1920 – 23 December 2002), commonly known as Tatamkhulu Afrika, which is Xhosa for ''Grandfather Africa'', was a South African poet and writer. His first novel, ''Broken Earth'' was published when he was seventeen (under his "Methodist name"), but it was over fifty years until his next publication, a collection of verse entitled ''Nine Lives''. He won numerous literary awards including the gold Molteno Award for lifetime services to South African literature, and in 1996 his works were translated into French. His autobiography, ''Mr Chameleon'', was published posthumously in 2005. Biography Tatamkhulu Afrika was born Mogamed Fu'ad Nasif in Egypt to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother, and came to South Africa as a very young child. Both his parents died of flu, and he was fostered by family friends under the name John Carlton. He fought in World War II in the North African campaign and was captured at Tobruk. His experiences as a prisoner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television. Early life Tsiolkas was born and raised in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents, and was educated at Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas completed his Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne in 1987. He edited the student newspaper ''Farrago'' in 1987. Career Tsiolkas' first novel, '' Loaded'' (1995), about an alienated closet gay youth in Melbourne, was adapted as the feature film '' Head On'' (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades. His fourth novel, '' The Slap'', was published in 2008, and won several awards as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. It was also highly successful commercially; it was the fourth-highest selling bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Frank
Judith Frank is an American writer and professor. She has been a two-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, winning in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 17th Lambda Literary Awards in 2005 for her novel ''Crybaby Butch'', and being a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Fiction category at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for ''All I Love and Know''."The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists" Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015. She is Jewish. Originally from Evanston, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Spanbauer
Tom Spanbauer (born 1946) is an United States, American writer whose work often explores issues of sexuality, race, and the ties that bind disparate people together. Raised in Idaho, Spanbauer has lived in Kenya and across the United States. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches a course titled "dangerous writing". He graduated in 1988 from Columbia University with an MFA in Fiction and has written five novels. Biography As a gay writer, Spanbauer has explored issues of race and sexual identity, and has stated on his website that his work also addresses "how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born." Spanbauer's childhood in Idaho influences his writing. He attended Idaho State University and Columbia University, Columbia. He also was a member of the Peace Corps in Kenya. Spanbauer is the creator of the concept of dangerous writing, a technique he teaches with the philosophy outlined below: : "It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambda Literary Award For Gay Fiction
The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legaci ... 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 References External links Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Gay Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees Awards established in 1989 English-language literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Holden (writer)
William Franklin Holden (born Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film '' Stalag 17'' (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries '' The Blue Knight'' (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including '' Sunset Boulevard'' (1950), ''Sabrina'' (1954), ''Picnic'' (1955), ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969) and ''Network'' (1976). He was named one of the " Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. Early life and education Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven Kaldera
A raven is any of several larger-bodied bird species of the genus ''Corvus''. These species do not form a single taxonomic group within the genus. There is no consistent distinction between "crows" and "ravens", common names which are assigned to different species chiefly on the basis of their size. The largest raven species are the common raven and the thick-billed raven. Etymology The term "raven" originally referred to the common raven (''Corvus corax''), the type species of the genus ''Corvus'', which has a larger distribution than any other species of ''Corvus'', ranging over much of the Northern Hemisphere. The modern English word ''raven'' has cognates in all other Germanic languages, including Old Norse (and subsequently modern Icelandic) and Old High German , all of which descend from Proto-Germanic . Collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include "rave", "treachery", "unkindness" and "conspiracy". In practice, most people use the more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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