Stonewall Writer of the Year Award
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The Stonewall Writer of the Year Award is one of the Stonewall Awards, presented annually since 2006 by Stonewall Equality Limited.
It should not be confused with the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored since 1971 by the American Library Association's GLBT Round Table.[1]
Winners to date have been:
- 2006: Sarah Waters
- 2007: Val McDermid for Beneath the Bleeding
- 2008: Stella Duffy for The Room of Lost Things
- 2009: Sarah Waters for The Little Stranger
- 2010: Jointly Stella Duffy for Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore and Rupert Smith for Man’s World
- 2011: Alan Hollinghurst for The Stranger’s Child
- 2012: Jeanette Winterson for Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- 2013: Damian Barr for Maggie and Me
- 2014: Sarah Waters for The Paying Guests
- 2015: Sarah Waters ("Writer of the Decade")
