Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest (born April 20, 1939 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer .

From 1984 to 1994 Forrest was the editor and editor of the largest and oldest lesbian publisher in Florida, Naiad Press . She is best known for the novels about the heroine Kate Delafield , a homicide detective. So far she has received five awards at the Lambda Literary Awards , arguably the most important gay and lesbian literary prize in the USA.

Awards

• 1990: Lambda Literary Award for The Beverly Malibu
• 1992: Lambda Literary Award for Murder by Tradition
• 1999: Pioneer Award at the Lambda Literary Awards
• 2005: Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Mystery category for Hancock Park
• 2006: Lambda Literary Award in the category Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror for Daughters of an Emerald Dusk
• 2014: Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Mystery category for High Desert

Works

The list of works is based on the date of first publication. The information on the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) refers to the first edition of the respective work.   

Daughters of the dawn

• Daughters Of A Coral Dawn . 1984, ISBN 0-930044-50-9

Daughters of the dawn . Argument , 2000, ISBN 3-88619-957-6

• Daughters Of An Amber Noon . 2002, ISBN 1-55583-663-1

Daughters of the midday sun . Argument, 2003 (translated by Britta Dutke), ISBN 3-88619-481-7

• Daughters Of An Emerald Dusk . 2005, ISBN 1-55583-823-5

Kate Delafield

• Amateur City . 1984 ISBN 0-930044-55-X

Amateurs . Argument, 1991 (Translated by Anke Grube, Maren Klostermann) ISBN 3-88619-515-5

• Murder At The Nightwood Bar . 1987 ISBN 0-930044-92-4

The dead person behind the Nightwood Bar . Argument, 1989 (transl. Gabriela Mischkowski) ISBN 3-88619-507-4

• The Beverly Malibu . 1989 ISBN 0-941483-47-9

Beverly Malibu . Argument, 1992 (Translated by Anke Grube, Maren Klostermann) ISBN 3-88619-529-5

• Murder By Tradition . 1991 ISBN 0-941483-89-4

Tradition . Argument, 1993 (Translated by Anke Grube, Maren Klostermann) ISBN 3-88619-537-6

Tradition . Argument, 2007 (Translated by Anke Grube, Maren Klostermann, Revised by Benjamin Bartel) ISBN 978-3-86754-009-4

• Liberty Square . 1996 ISBN 0-425-15467-X

Meeting point Washington . Argument, 1998 (Translated by Anke Grube, Silvia Mayer) ISBN 3-88619-837-5

• Apparition Alley . 1997 ISBN 0-425-15966-3

Crossfire . Argument, 1999 (Translated by Monika Brinkmann) ISBN 3-88619-843-X

• Sleeping bones . 1999 ISBN 0-425-17029-2

Backbreaking job . Argument, 2000 (transl. Britta Dutke) ISBN 3-88619-855-3

• Hancock Park . 2004 ISBN 0-425-19598-8

Full intoxication . Argument, 2005 (transl. Sonja Finck ) ISBN 3-88619-885-5

• High desert . 2013 ISBN 978-1-935226-65-9

Desert fire . Krug & Schadenberg, 2017 (transl. Adele Marx) ISBN 978-3-95917-008-6

More novels

• Curious Wine . 1983, ISBN 0-930044-43-6

Strange wine . Daphne, 1985 (translated by Heidi Ballschmiede), ISBN 3-89137-002-4

• To Emergence of Green . 1986, ISBN 0-930044-69-X

The stranger in the pool . Frauenoffensive, 1988 (translated by Gerlinde Kowitzke), ISBN 3-88104-176-1

• Flashpoint . 1994, ISBN 1-56280-043-4

The order of the day . Frauenoffensive, 1994 (translated by Gerlinde Kowitzke), ISBN 3-88104-255-5

stories

• Dreams and Swords . 1987, ISBN 0-941483-03-7

The Gift

Jessie

Benny's Place

Xessex

Force majeur

Mother Was an Alien (excerpt from Daughters of a Coral Dawn )

Mandy Larkin

Survivor

O Captain, My Captain

The test

Edward L. Ferman published Forrest's short story Xessex under her pseudonym M. Catherine McKinlay in 1983 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction .

As editor

• The Erotic Naiad - Love Stories by Naiad Press Authors . 1992, together with Barbara Grier, ISBN 1-56280-026-4
• Diving Deep - Erotic Lesbian Love Stories . 1993, together with Barbara Grier, ISBN 1-872642-14-4
• The Romantic Naiad - Love Stories by Naiad Press Authors . 1993, together with Barbara Grier, ISBN 1-56280-054-X
• The Mysterious Naiad - Love Stories by Naiad Press Authors . 1994, together with Barbara Grier, ISBN 1-56280-074-4
• Diving Deeper - More Erotic Lesbian Love Stories . 1994, together with Barbara Grier, ISBN 1-872642-22-5
• Deeply Mysterious - Erotic Lesbian Stories . 1995, together with Barbara Grier, ISBN 1-872642-31-4
• All in the Seasoning - And Other Holiday Stories . 2002, ISBN 1-887237-04-6
• Lesbian Pulp Fiction - The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 . 2005, ISBN 1-57344-210-0
• Women of mystery - An Anthology . 2006, ISBN 1-56023-543-8
• Love, Castro Street - Reflections of San Francisco . 2007, together with Jim Van Buskirk, ISBN 978-1-55583-997-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Katherine V. Forrest in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katherine V. Forrest website
• Katherine V. Forrest in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Katherine V. Forrest at Open Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Works by Katherine V. Forrest in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ Fantastic Fiction: Works by Katherine V. Forrest
3. ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) : Works by Katherine V. Forrest
4. ↑ Pit in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019