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30th Lambda Literary Awards
The 30th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2018, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2017."Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor" ''Windy City Times'', June 5, 2018. The list of nominees was released on March 6. ''The Forward'', March 6, 2018. Special awards |
Lambda Literary Awards
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary Foundation, 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 Ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rechy
John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is a Mexican-American novelist and essayist. His novels are written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matter. '' City of Night'', his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Mexican-American literature, notably with his novel ''The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez'', which has been taught in several Chicano studies courses throughout the United States. But, even after the success of his first novel, he still worked as a prostitute, teaching during the day, and hustling at night. He worked as a prostitute into his forties while also teaching at UCLA. Through the 1970's and 1980's he dealt with personal drug use, as well as the AIDS crisis, which killed many of his friends. Early life Rechy was born Juan Francisco Flores Rechy March 10, 1931, in El Paso, Texas. He was the youngest of five children born to Guadalupe (née Flores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Fries
Kenny Fries (born September 22, 1960) is an American memoirist and poet. He is the author of ''In the Province of the Gods'' (2017), ''The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory'' (2007), ''Body, Remember: A Memoir'' (1997), and editor of ''Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out'' (1997). He was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera to write the libretto for ''The Memory Stone,'' which premiered in 2013. His books of poems include ''In the Gardens of Japan'' (2017), ''Desert Walking'' (2006) and ''Anesthesia'' (2000). He received a 2009 Creative Capital grant in Innovative Literature, the 2007 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, a Creative Arts Fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the National Endowment, and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar (in Japan and Germany). In 2017, he created the Fries Test for disability in fiction and film, akin to the Bechdel Test for women. Early life and edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Antonio Rodríguez (writer)
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Jonathan Alexander (professor)
Jonathan Alexander (born October 2, 1967) is an American rhetorician and memoirist. He is Chancellor's Professor of English, Informatics, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His scholarly and creative work is situated at the intersections of digital culture, sexuality, and composition studies. For his work in cultural journalism and memoir, Tom Lutz, founding editor of the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', has called him "one of our finest essayists." Education Alexander received his BA in English and an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature (1993) from Louisiana State University. He studied with James Olney, who was the Voorhies Professor of English and an editor of ''The Southern Review''. Academic contributions Alexander has worked primarily as an academic, scholar, higher educator, and administrator, with a current appointment at UC, Irvine. He also works across media. He is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parvez Sharma
Parvez Sharma is a New York-based Indian filmmaker, author, and journalist. He is a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the film/video category. He was amongst the 173 fellows selected from 3000 applicants in the 94th year of the fellowship, which originally started in 1925. In an official press release by the foundation, president Edward Hirsch said, "The winners of the 94th annual competition as "the best of the best...This diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise." Sharma is best known for his two films ''A Jihad for Love'''','' '' A Sinner in Mecca','' and his 2017 book ''A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance''. ''A Jihad for Love'' was the world's first film documenting the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims. He received the 2009 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary amongst several other international awards for ''A Jihad for Love''. In 2016, Sharma was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chike Frankie Edozien
Chiké Frankie Edozien is a Nigerian-American writer and journalist. He is currently the director of New York University, Accra. He directed the New York University Journalism Institute's Ghana based Reporting Africa program from 2008 to 2019. He is a journalist who honed his skills writing about government, health and cultural issues for a variety of publications. He is the author of the 2017 book ''Lives of Great Men'', a Lambda Literary Award winner. ''Lives'' was shortlisted for the Randy Shilts Award for Non-Fiction in 2018 by the Publishing Triangle. Edozien has spoken about the themes of freedom, perseverance, and courage expressed in ''Lives'' around the world from India to Australia to New Zealand to South Africa and Nigeria as well as Ghana and the United States. His work has been examined in universities around the world from Yale University to New York University to Manchester Metropolitan University as well as Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore, University of Delhi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambda Literary Award For Gay Memoir Or Biography
The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography 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 memoir, biography, autobiography, or works of creative nonfiction by or about gay men. Works published posthumously and/or written with co-authors are eligible, but anthologies are not. Between 1994 and 2000, the award was given for gay biography/autobiography. From 2002–2006, there was no gay biography/autobiography category (and also no lesbian biography/autobiography category) but rather separate categories for biography and for autobiography/memoir. In 2007, the gay memoir/biography category was created (as was the lesbian memoir/biography category). Recipients References {{Lambda Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Dempsey
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Matthew Lansburgh
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Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer (born November 21, 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ''Less (novel), Less''. He is the author of ''The Story of a Marriage'', which ''The New York Times'' has called an "inspired, lyrical novel", and ''The Confessions of Max Tivoli'', which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and received a California Book Award. Biography Andrew Sean Greer was born in November 1970, in Washington, D.C., the child of two scientists. He grew up in Rockville, Maryland. He is an identical twin. He graduated from Georgetown Day School, and Brown University, where he studied with Robert Coover and Edmund White, and served as commencement speaker. He lives part-time in Italy. He is the author of six works of fiction. Greer taught at Free University of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Boyne
John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish author, novelist, and writer. He is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas, and one collection of short stories. Boyne's historical novel '' The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'', first published in 2006, was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name. As of 2022, the book has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. It has also been translated into 58 languages, and a sequel, '' All the Broken Places'', was published in 2022. Biography Boyne was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he still lives. His first short story was published by the ''Sunday Tribune'' and in 1993 was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. Boyne was educated at Terenure College, a Carmelite-run secondary school in Dublin. He read English at Trinity College Dublin, graduating BA in 1993. He subsequently obtained an MA in Creative Writing from the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
