The winner of the Green Carnation Prize 2012 has just been announced. ThePrize is a literary prize for any form of the written word by an LGBT writer.For the first time in the prizes history the judges announce two winners in a tie as Patrick Gale and André Carl Van Der Merwe become joint winners of The Green Carnation Prize 2012.
Patrick Gale’s A Perfectly Good Man is his sixteenth novel, a story of the moral dilemmas of a Cornish priest and his family and looks at what makes people good or bad. André Carl Van Der Merwe’s debut novel Moffie is a tale of coming out in South Africa in the military during some of the country’s most turbulent times.
Chair of the judges Rodney Troubridge said “I’m glad to see two novels win the Green Carnation Prize…from a much loved author, Patrick Gale, a challenging tale of moral choices and a visceral debut of love and prejudice from South Africa.”
The Green Carnation Prize got off to a great start in 2010 as an award that celebrated the best fiction and memoirs by gay men. It provoked debate, produced an intriguing shortlist and chose a worthy winner in Christopher Fowler’s Paperboy. In 2011 the prize came back even bigger and better opening its doors to all LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) writers. It was won by Catherine Hall for her second novel The Proof of Love.
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