21st Lambda Literary Awards
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The 21st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2009, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2008.
Special awards
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| Category | Winner |
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| Pioneer Award | Leslie Feinberg, The Violet Quill |
Nominees and winners
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!Category !Winner !Nominated |
| align="center"| Bisexual Literature
| Jenny Block, Open |
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| align="center"| Gay Debut Fiction
| Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater |
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| align="center"| Gay Erotica
| Richard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009 |
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| align="center"| Gay Fiction
| Scott Heim, We Disappear |
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| align="center"| Gay Memoir/Biography
| Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love |
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| align="center"| Gay Mystery
| Scott Sherman, First You Fall |
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| align="center"| Gay Poetry
| Mark Doty, Fire to Fire |
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| align="center"| Gay Romance
| Larry Duplechan, Got 'til it's Gone |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Debut Fiction
| Magdalena Zurawski, The Bruise |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Erotica
| Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Fiction
| Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Memoir/Biography
| Maureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Mystery
| Josie Gordon, Whacked |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Poetry
| Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling |
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| align="center"| Lesbian Romance
| Karin Kallmaker, The Kiss That Counted |
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| align="center"| LGBT Anthology
| Thomas Glave, Our Caribbean |
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| align="center"| LGBT Children's/Young Adult
| Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket |
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| align="center"| LGBT Drama
| Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc |
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| align="center"| LGBT Non-Fiction
| Jane Rule, Loving the Difficult |
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| align="center"| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
| Nicole Kimberling, Turnskin |
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| align="center"| LGBT Studies
| Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality |
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| align="center"| Transgender Literature
| Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) |
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External links
- [http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/02/18/lambda-literary-awards-2008-2/ 21st Lambda Literary Awards]
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