Winners of the 28th annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fiction, nonfiction and poetry published in 2015, were presented last night, including the inaugural Trans/Gender-Variant Literature Award. The winners are:
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| At the Publishing Triangle Awards last night: Carol Rosenfeld, Publishing Triangle; nonfiction winners Michelangelo Signorile, Marcia M. Gallo, Barney Frank; Trent Duffy, Publishing Triangle. | |
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction: A Poet of the Invisible World by Michael Golding (Picador)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks (BookThug)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City and the Myth of Urban Apathy by Marcia M. Gallo (Cornell University Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: (tie) Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank (FSG); and It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality by Michelangelo Signorile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: Chord by Rick Barot (Sarabande Books)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: No Confession, No Mass by Jennifer Perrine (University of Nebraska Press)
Trans/Gender-Variant Literature Award: The Middle Notebookes by Nathanaël (Nightboat Books)
The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement: Eloise Klein Healy, the author of eight books of poetry and three spoken-word recordings. She was named the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2012 and was the founding editor of Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press specializing in the work of lesbian authors. Her most recent book is A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings.
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A shortlist of six books has been announced for the £3,000 (about $4,299) Orwell Prize, which recognizes work that comes closest to George Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art." The winner will be named May 26. This year's shortlisted titles are:
The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke
Other People's Money by John Kay
The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount
The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky
The Unravelling by Emma Sky
Circling the Square by Wendell Steavenson
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Finalists have been named for the £10,000 (about $14,330) James Tait Black Prizes, which are given annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and best biography. The winners will be announced August 15 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Fiction
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
Biography
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare (Faber and Faber)
Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro