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Edition 11 (1999)

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Winners

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Dorothy Allison どろしー ありそん Winner

A substantial novel about a woman returning home with old wounds and trying to reclaim the family she lost. It is a Southern story where violence and renewal intersect.

A heavy, searching homecoming story about reconnecting a damaged family.

434 pages
familytraumareturn homerenewalSouthern fiction
Alison Bechdel ありそん べくでる Winner

A retrospective look at the world of Dykes to Watch Out For, tracing Alison Bechdel's long-running comic and the creative background behind it. The book introduces the strip's context, characters, and comic sensibility with a mix of humor and critical reflection.

A look behind the strip, tracing the accumulated life of the comic.

224 pages
lesbian culturequeer communitycomic stripautobiographical elementscreative process
Joan Nestle じょーん ねすとる Winner

A collection of essays and narratives in which Joan Nestle writes about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, memory, history, and life with illness. Moving between intimacy and politics, the book reflects on the fragility and hope that shape community.

It gives language to lesbian history by moving between intimacy and difference.

495 pages
lesbian sexualitybutch-femme relationshipspreserving historymemory and lossillness and hope
Michael Thomas Ford まいける とーます ふぉーど Winner

Michael Thomas Ford's essay collection captures the humor and bittersweet edges of queer everyday life. Mixing romance, family, pop culture, and self-deprecation, it portrays gay life in the 1990s with brisk, comic energy.

It sketches the shape of queer life through sharp observation and self-mocking humor.

234 pages
gay lifehumorous essaysfamily and romanceself-deprecation1990s queer culture
Nicola Griffith にこら ぐりふぃす Winner

Former undercover cop Aud Torvingen is drawn into a dangerous chain of events in Atlanta. Through a bombing, money laundering, and a trip to Norway, the strong but emotionally guarded heroine is pushed out of her fragile balance.

A woman who feels truly alive only in danger steps into the middle of a case.

308 pages
crime thrillerfemale protagonistAtlantaNorwayviolence and suspense