ORGULLO BORICUA LGBTT: LUIS NEGRÓN GANA PREMIO POR SU LIBRO "MUNDO CRUEL"

Luis Negrón, escritor boricua gay, fue galardonado en la noche del 2 de junio 2014 por su libro Mundo Cruel. Este participaba en la categoría de Gay General Fiction en la 26th Annual Lammy. Premiación dirigida por Lambda Literary Foundation.

Esta organización, que trabaja desde el 1987, se encarga promover, cultivar, celebrar y preservar la literatura LGBT mediante programas de honor. Las premiaciones buscan destacar la excelencia literaria. Además de brindar apoyo para el nacimiento y desenvolvimiento de nuevos autores.

A continuación una lista de los otros autores que competían en la misma categoría:

GAY GENERAL FICTION

• A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
• An Honest Ghost, Rick Whitaker, Jaded Ibis Press
• The City of Devi, Manil Suri, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Damn Love, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Ig Publishing
• The Desperates, Greg Kearney, Cormorant Books
• Fire Year, Jason K. Friedman, Sarabande Books
• Local Souls, Allan Gurganus, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press
• Necessary Errors, Caleb Crain, Penguin Books
• The Red Shoes, John Stewart Wynne, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus

Aquí la lista de los ganadores en diferentes categorías:

GAY GENERAL FICTION: “Mundo Cruel: Stories,” by Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine (Seven Stories).

LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION: “Happiness, Like Water,” by Chinelo Okparanta (Mariner).

LGBT DEBUT: “Descendants of Hagar,” by Nik Nicholson (AuthorHouse).

TRANSGENDER FICTION: “Wanting in Arabic,” by Trish Salah (TSAR).

TRANSGENDER NONFICTION: “The End of San Francisco,” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (City Lights).

BISEXUAL NONFICTION: “The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television,” by Maria San Filippo (Indiana Univ.).

GAY POETRY: “Unpeopled Eden,” by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Four Way).

LESBIAN POETRY: “Rise in the Fall,” by Ana Bozicevic (Birds).

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY: “A Heaven of Words: Last Journals,” by Glenway Wescott, edited by Jerry Rosco (Univ. of Wisconsin).

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY: “Body Geographic,” by Barrie Jean Borich (Univ. of Nebraska).

GAY MYSTERY: “The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery,” by Janice Law (MysteriousPress/Open Road Media).

LESBIAN MYSTERY: “High Desert,” by Katherine V. Forrest (Spinsters Ink).

GAY ROMANCE: “Into This River I Drown,” by TJ Klune (Dreamspinner).

LESBIAN ROMANCE: “Clean Slate,” by Andrea Bramhall (Bold Strokes).

GAY EROTICA: “The Padisah’s Son and the Fox,” by Alex Jeffers (Lethe).

LESBIAN EROTICA: “Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories,” edited by Sacchi Green (Cleis).

LGBT ANTHOLOGY (FICTION): “Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction,” by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba (MaThoko’s Books).

LGBT ANTHOLOGY (NON-FICTION): “Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners,” edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff (Univ. of Wisconsin).

LGBT DRAMA: “Tom at the Farm,” by Michel Marc Bouchard (Talonbooks).

LGBT SF/F/HORROR: “Death by Silver,” by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold (Lethe).

LGBT STUDIES: “Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence,” by Christina B. Hanhardt (Duke Univ.).