Oleh: Alex

Lambda Literary Awards adalah penghargaan yang diberikan untuk literatur LGBT di Amerika Serikat. Pemenang Lambda Literary Awards ke-19 tahun 2007 ini diumumkan tanggal 1 Juni 2007 dalam gala dinner yang dihadiri 300 orang di New York. Para juri terdiri atas jurnalis, penulis, penerbit, toko buku, dll, dan mereka menyeleksi 381 buku.

Beberapa novel lesbian yang menang pernah direview di blog Rahasia Bulan, yaitu The Night Watch, Fun Home, dan Between Mom and Jo. Fun Home sebuah memoar grafis karya Alison Bechdel juga dipilih majalah TIME sebagai Book of the Year for 2006 The Night Watch bahkan memperoleh nominasi Man Booker Prize dan Orange Prize 2006.

Berikut ini pemenang-pemenangnya:

Winner for LESBIAN FICTION
* The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)

Winner for CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT (tie)
* Full Spectrum, edited by David Levithan & Billy Merrell (Random House Children’s Books)
* Between Mom & Jo by Julie Anne Peters (Little Brown)

Winner for LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)

Winner for LESBIAN ROMANCE
* Fresh Tracks by Georgia Beers (Bold Strokes)

Winner for LESBIAN MYSTERY
* The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (Bantam)

Winner for LESBIAN POETRY
* Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)

Winner for LESBIAN EROTICA
* Walk Like a Man by Laurinda D. Brown (Q-Boro Books)

Winner for LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
* The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (Riverhead)

Winner for GAY FICTION
* Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

Winner for GAY ROMANCE
* When the Stars Come Out by Rob Byrnes (Kensington)

Winner for GAY MYSTERY
* The Lucky Elephant Restaurant by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press)

Winner for GAY POETRY
* A History of My Tattoo by Jim Elledge (Stonewall)

Winner for GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
* The Bill From My Father by Bernard Cooper (Simon & Schuster)

Winner for GAY EROTICA
* A History of Barbed Wire by Jeff Mann (Suspect Thoughts)

Winner for GAY DEBUT FICTION
· Suspension by Robert Westfield (Harper Perennial)

Winner for SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
* Izzy and Eve by Neal Drinnan (Green Candy Press)

Winner for TRANSGENDER
* The Transgender Studies Reader edited by Susan Stryker & Stephen Whittle (Routledge)

Untuk daftar lengkap pemenangnya, silakan klik:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current_winners.html

@Alex,SepociKopi, 2007