The Edmund White Award is an annual literary award, presented by

Publishing Triangle The Publishing Triangle, founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy, is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry. They sponsor an annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and have sponsored the annual Triangle Awards prog ...

to honour

debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ...

s by writers within the

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community. First presented in 2006, the award was named in honour of American novelist

Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. France made him (and later ) de l'Ordr ...

Winners

* 2006 — Mack Friedman, ''Setting the Lawn on Fire'' * 2007 — Martin Hyatt, ''A Scarecrow's Bible'' * 2008 —

Myriam Gurba Myriam Gurba is an American writer, story-teller, and visual artist. She is best known for her review, in Tropics of Meta, of American Dirt. In 2019, ''O, The Oprah Magazine'' called Gurba's work ''Mean'' (2017) one of the "Best LGBTQ Books o ...

, ''Dahlia Season'' * 2009 — Evan Fallenberg, ''Light Fell'' * 2010 — Lori Ostlund, ''The Bigness of the World'' * 2011 — Katharine Beutner, ''Alcestis'' * 2012 — Lara Fergus, ''My Sister Chaos'' * 2013 —

Lysley Tenorio Lysley A. Tenorio (born Olongapo City, Philippines) is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize ...

, ''Monstress'' * 2014 —

Sara Farizan Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature. Her debut novel, ''If You Could Be Mine'', won the Ferro-Grumley Award,

, ''

If You Could Be Mine ''If You Could Be Mine'' is a 2013 young adult novel by Sara Farizan. The book tells the story of Sahar, an Iranian teenage girl who is willing to go through sex reassignment surgery so she can marry her best friend, Nasrin. The book was received ...

'' * 2015 — Kim Fu, '' For Today I Am a Boy'' * 2016 — Carellin Brooks, ''One Hundred Days of Rain'' * 2017 — Joe Okonkwo, ''Jazz Moon'' * 2018 — SJ Sindu, '' Marriage of a Thousand Lies'' * 2019 — Joseph Cassara, ''The House of Impossible Beauties'' * 2020 — Téa Mutonji, ''Shut Up You're Pretty'' * 2021 —

Julia Serano Julia Michelle Serano (; born 1967) is an American writer, musician, spoken-word performer, trans– bi activist, and biologist. She is known for her transfeminist books ''Whipping Girl'' (2007), ''Excluded'' (2013), and ''Outspoken'' (2016). Sh ...

, ''99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel'' * 2022 — Robert Jones Jr., ''The Prophets''"Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"
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Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...

'', May 11, 2022.

References

External links

* Triangle Awards American fiction awards Awards established in 2006 First book awards LGBT literary awards {{lit-award-stub