Dagger Award
The Dagger Award is an award for crime fiction in the UK . It has been awarded in a varying number of categories by the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) since 1955 . Dagger is the English word for a classic murder weapon, the dagger .
The CWA currently awards eleven z. Some of the awards are sponsored by sponsors . Between 2006 and 2008 the British private bank Duncan Lawrie private bankers was the main sponsor of the British Crime Writers' Association ; as a result, the Gold Dagger was renamed in favor of the sponsor in Duncan Lawrie Dagger and briefly the highest endowed crime prize in the world with £ 20,000. The global financial crisis forced the sponsor to withdraw. The endowment of the (re-established) CWA Gold Dagger dropped to £ 2,500 at the 2009 awards ceremony. Prize money for other categories also fell significantly, and the name changes made in 2006 in favor of the sponsor were reversed. Thanks to a new sponsor, the award has been called Goldsboro Gold Dagger since 2013 . An award for the second best detective novel of the year - Silver Dagger - has not been awarded since 2006.
Since 2006, the CWA has also presented an award for the best international crime novel translated into English (initially Duncan Lawrie International Dagger , since 2009 CWA International Dagger ). The former John Creasey Memorial Dagger operated under the name New Blood Dagger from 2006 to 2008 , and has been published as John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger since 2009 with the withdrawal of Duncan Lawrie private bankers .
The award for the best historical crime novel, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger , has been called the Ellis Peters Historical Award since 2006 and has been called the CWA Endeavor Historical Dagger since 2014 due to a change of sponsor . With the Publishers' Award , the CWA 2019 brings a new distinction after more than 10 years; this time for publishers who have made a name for themselves through excellent and diverse publications of crime literature.
Categories
Current categories
category | Original title | awarded since |
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Best English-language detective novel * | Gold dagger | 1955 |
Best detective novel translated into English * | International Dagger | 2006 |
Best first novel * | John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (until 2005 John Creasey Memorial Dagger ) |
1973 |
Best Thriller * | Ian Fleming Steel Dagger | 2002 |
Lifetime Achievement Award * | CWA Diamond Dagger (until 2011 Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award ) |
1986 |
Best non-fiction book in crime fiction * | Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction | 1978 |
Author of the year in the lending libraries * | Dagger in the Library (in 1994 The Golden Handcuffs ) | 1994 |
Best short story | Short story dagger | 1995 |
Best work by a previously unpublished author * (young talent competition) |
Debut Dagger | 1998 |
Best historical detective novel * | CWA Historical Dagger (until 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Award ) |
1999 |
Best National Crime Fiction Publisher * | Publishers' Award | 2019 |
The winners of the categories marked with an asterisk are listed below
Dagger Awards, which are given once
category | Original title | year |
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Critical Award | Critical Award | 1964 |
Special Merit Award | Special Merit Award | 1966 |
Special Award | Special Award | 1975 |
Special Silver Dagger Award | Special Silver Dagger Award | 1980 |
Best detective novel * of the 1930s | Rusty Dagger | 1996 |
Best detective novel * of the last 50 years | Dagger of Daggers | 2005 |
The winners of the categories marked with an asterisk are listed below
Dagger Awards that are no longer given
category | Original title | awarded from to |
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Best foreign crime novel | Best Foreign Novel | 1964-1969 |
Best British detective novel | Best British Novel | 1965-1967 |
Second best detective novel | Silver Dagger | 1969-2005 |
Second best non-fiction book in crime fiction | Silver Dagger fo Non-Fiction | 1978-1979 |
Best police novel | Police Review Award | 1985-1987 |
Most humorous detective novel | Last Laugh Dagger (Punch Award) | 1988-1996 |
CWA '92 Award | CWA '92 Award | 1990-1992 |
Rumpole Award | Rumpole Award | 1990-1992 |
These categories are all listed below
Award winners
Best English-language detective novel - Gold Dagger
The oldest award, named Gold Dagger since 1955 - the award for the best English-language novel - of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has changed its official name several times over the decades. As a rule, it was sponsors who provided financial support for a limited period of time and whose names were included in the title of the award. From 2006 to 2008, sponsor Duncun Lawrie private bankers made the prize briefly the world's most endowed crime prize at £ 20,000. As of 2009, the winner has received £ 2,500.
year | Prize winner |
Original English title Publisher, Place Year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
Crossed Red Herrings Award | |||
1955 | Winston Graham | The Little Walls Hodder & Stoughton, London 1955 |
Abyss of the heart Scherz, Bern a. a. 1959 |
1956 | Edward Grierson | The Second Man Chatto & Windus, London 1956 |
The lady in the black robe Wunderlich, Tübingen 1957 |
1957 | Julian Symons | The Color of Murder Collins, London 1957 |
The laughter of the murderer Dörner, Düsseldorf 1959 |
1958 | Margot Bennett | Someone from the Past Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1958 |
Someone from the past Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1982 |
1959 | Eric Ambler | Passage of Arms Heinemann, London 1959 |
Arms smuggling Rowohlt, Reinbek 1963 |
CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction | |||
1960 | Lionel Davidson | The Night of Wenceslas Gollancz, London 1960 |
The night of Wenceslaus Blanvalet, Munich 1988 |
1961 | Mary Kelly | The Spoilt Kill Michael Joseph, London 1961 |
Smashed porcelain nest, Frankfurt am Main 1962 |
1962 | Joan Fleming | When I Grow Rich Gollancz, London 1962 |
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1963 | John le Carré | The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Gollancz, London 1963 |
The spy who came out of the cold Zsolnay, Vienna 1964 |
1964 | HRF Keating | The Perfect Murder Collins, London 1964 |
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1965 | Ross Macdonald | The Far Side of the Dollar Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1965 |
The other side of the dollar Diogenes, Zurich 1971 |
1966 | Lionel Davidson | A Long Way to Shiloh Gollancz, London 1966 |
The secret of the menorah Goldmann, Munich 1993 |
1967 | Emma Lathen | Murder Against the Grain Macmillan, New York 1967 |
Not a grain of truth Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1972 |
1968 | Peter Dickinson | Skin Deep Hodder & Stoughton, London 1968 |
Avenging Past Desch, Munich a. a. 1971 |
1969 | Peter Dickinson | A Pride of Heroes Hodder & Stoughton, London 1969 |
Heroes in droves Goldmann, Munich 1973 |
1970 | Joan Fleming | Young Man I Think You're Dying Collins, London 1970 |
One-way street to Death Goldmann, Munich 1971 |
1971 | James McClure | The Steam Pig Gollancz, London 1971 |
A cheeky child Scherz, Bern a. a. 1975 |
1972 | Eric Ambler | The Levanter Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1972 |
The Levantine Diogenes, Zurich 1973 |
1973 | Robert Littell | The Defection of AJ Lewinter Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1973 |
Moscow there and back Zsolnay, Vienna 1974 |
1974 | Anthony Price | Other Paths to Glory Gollancz, London 1974 |
Detours to fame Wunderlich, Tübingen 1977 |
1975 | Nicholas Meyer | The Seven Per Cent Solution Dutton, New York 1974 |
No coke for Sherlock Holmes Marion von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1976 |
1976 | Ruth Rendell | A Demon in my View Hutchinson, London 1976 |
Demon behind top stores Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1976 |
1977 | John le Carré | The Honorable Schoolboy Hodder & Stoughton, London 1977 |
A kind of hero Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1977 |
1978 | Lionel Davidson | The Chelsea Murders Jonathan Cape, London 1978 |
Death in Chelsea Goldmann, Munich 1992 |
1979 | Dick Francis | Whip Hand Michael Joseph, London 1979 |
Handicap Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1980 |
1980 | HRF Keating | The Murder of the Maharajah Collins, London 1980 |
Death of a high-ranking personality Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982 |
1981 | Martin Cruz Smith | Gorky Park Random House, New York 1981 |
Gorki Park Scherz, Bern a. a. 1982 |
1982 | Peter Lovesey | The False Inspector Dew Macmillan, London 1982 |
Farewell in English Droemer Knaur, Munich 1983 |
1983 | John Hutton | Accidental Crimes Bodley Head, London 1983 |
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1984 | Barbara M. Gill | The Twelfth juror Hodder & Stoughton, London 1984 |
The twelfth juror Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986 |
1985 | Paula Gosling | Monkey Puzzle Macmillan, London 1985 |
Death on the Rowohlt campus , Reinbek 1988 |
1986 | Ruth Rendell | Live Flesh Hutchinson, London 1986 |
In a blind panic Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987 |
1987 | Barbara Vine | A Fatal Inversion Viking, London 1987 |
The sun is shining so beautifully Diogenes, Zurich 1989 |
1988 | Michael Dibdin | Ratking Faber & Faber, London 1988 |
Kidnapping in Italian Goldmann, Munich 1992 |
1989 | Colin Dexter | The Wench is Dead Macmillan, London 1989 |
Murder on the Oxford Canal Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990 |
1990 | Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence Collins, London 1990 |
The dark lady means it Ernst Europe, Hamburg 2003 |
1991 | Barbara Vine | King Solomon's Carpet Viking, London 1991 |
King Solomon's Carpet Diogenes, Zurich 1993 |
1992 | Colin Dexter | The Way Through the Woods Macmillan, London 1992 |
Sinister Reasons Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993 |
1993 | Patricia Cornwell | Cruel and Unusual Scribner’s, New York 1993 |
Unsuccessful all-clear Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994 |
1994 | Minette Walters | The Scold's Bridle Macmillian, London 1994 |
The Shame Mask Goldmann, Munich 1996 |
Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction | |||
1995 | Val McDermid | The Mermaids Singing HarperCollins, London 1995 |
The song of the sirens Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997 |
1996 | Ben Elton | Popcorn Simon & Schuster, London 1996 |
Popcorn Goldmann, Munich 1997 |
1997 | Ian Rankin | Black and Blue Orion, London 1997 |
The souvenir of the murderer Goldmann, Munich 2005 |
1998 | James Lee Burke | Sunset Limited Doubleday, New York 1998 |
Bog fever Goldmann, Munich 2000 |
1999 | Robert Wilson | A Small Death in Lisbon HarperCollins, London 1999 |
Death in Lisbon Goldmann, Munich 2002 |
2000 | Jonathan Lethem | Motherless Brooklyn Doubleday, New York 1999 |
Motherless Brooklyn Tropen, Cologne 2001 |
2001 | Henning Mankell | Sidetracked Harvill, London 2000 |
The wrong track Zsolnay, Vienna 1999 |
2002 | José Carlos Somoza | The Athenian Murders Abacus, London 2002 |
The riddle of the philosopher Claassen, Munich 2002 |
CWA Gold Dagger | |||
2003 | Minette Walters | Fox Evil Macmillan, London 2002 |
Fox hunt Goldmann, Munich 2003 |
2004 | Sara Paretsky | Blacklist Putnam’s, New York 2003 |
Blacklist Goldmann, Munich 2004 |
2005 | Arnaldur Indriðason | Silence of the Graves Harvill, London 2005 |
Todeshauch Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2004 |
Duncan Lawrie Dagger | |||
2006 | Ann Cleeves | Raven Black Pan Macmillan, London 2005 |
The Night of the Ravens Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007 |
2007 | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore Quercus, London 2006 |
Cold August Bertelsmann, Munich 2007 |
2008 | Frances Fyfield | Blood from Stone Little, Brown Book Group, London 2008 |
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CWA Gold Dagger | |||
2009 | William Brodrick | A Whispered Name Little, Brown Book Group, London 2009 |
The Silence of the Monk List, Berlin 2009 |
2010 | Belinda Bauer | Blacklands Corgi, London 2010 |
The grave in the moor Goldmann, Munich 2010 |
2011 | Tom Franklin | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Macmillan, London 2011 |
Crooked type, crooked type, Pulp Master 2018 |
2012 | Gene Kerrigan | The Rage Harvill Secker, London 2011 |
Die Wut Polar Verlag, Hamburg 2014 |
Goldsboro Gold Dagger | |||
2013 | Mick Herron | Dead Lions Soho Crime, New York 2013 |
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2014 | Wiley Cash | This Dark Road to Mercy William Morrow, New York 2014 |
Don't look back Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2014 |
2015 | Michael Robotham | Life or Death Sphere, London 2015 |
For life and death Goldmann, Munich 2015 |
2016 | Bill Beverly | Dodgers No Exit Press, Harpenden 2016 |
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CWA Gold Dagger | |||
2017 | Jane Harper | The Dry Flatiron Books, New York 2017 |
The Dry Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek 2016 |
2018 | Steve Cavanagh | The Liar Orion, London 2017 |
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2019 | MW Craven | The Puppet Show Constable, London 2018 |
Flames of Retribution Weltbild, Augsburg 2018 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best detective novel translated into English - International Dagger
The International Dagger, awarded since 2006 (between 2006 and 2008 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger), is the first international prize awarded by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for the best foreign-language novel in crime fiction translated into English. The authors received £ 5,000 in prize money and the translators £ 1,000. The endowment was reduced to £ 1,000 with the departure of sponsor Duncan Lawrie private bankers and to £ 500 for the translator.
year |
Award winner nationality |
English title publisher, location year 1 |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
Duncan Lawrie International Dagger | ||||
2006 |
Fred Vargas France |
The Three Evangelists Harvill, London 2006 |
Debout les morts Viviane Hamy, Paris 1995 |
The beautiful diva by Saint-Jacques Aufbau, Berlin 1999 |
2007 |
Fred Vargas France |
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand Harvill, London 2006 |
Sous les vents de Neptune Viviane Hamy, Paris 2004 |
The fourteenth stone structure, Berlin 2005 |
2008 |
Dominique Manotti France |
Lorraine Connection Arcadia Books, London 2007 |
Lorraine connection Editions Payot & Rivages, Paris 2006 |
The last layer Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2010 |
CWA International Dagger | ||||
2009 |
Fred Vargas France |
The Chalk Circle Man Knopf, Toronto 2009 |
L'Homme aux cercles bleus Viviane Hamy, Paris 1996 |
A train leaves the Gare du Nord Aufbau, Berlin 1999 |
2010 |
Johan Theorin Sweden |
The Darkest Room Doubleday, London 2009 |
Nattfåk Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 2008 |
Fog storm Piper, Munich 2009 |
2011 |
Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström Sweden |
Three Seconds Quercus, London 2010 |
Tre sekunder Piratförlaget, Stockholm 2009 |
Three seconds of joke, Frankfurt am Main 2010 |
2012 |
Andrea Camilleri Italy |
The Potter's Field Penguin Books, New York 2011 |
Il campo del vasaio Sellerio editore, Palermo 2008 |
The ritual of revenge Lübbe, Cologne 2012 |
2013 |
Pierre Lemaitre France |
Alex Quercus, London 2012 |
Alex Michel, Paris 2011 |
I want to see you die Ullstein, Berlin 2012 |
Fred Vargas France |
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec Harvill Secker, London 2013 |
L'Armée furieuse Éd. de Noyelles, Paris 2011 |
The night of anger build-up, Berlin 2012 |
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2014 |
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Spain |
The Siege Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2013 |
El asedio Alfaguara, Madrid 2010 |
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2015 |
Pierre Lemaitre France |
Camille Quercus, London 2014 |
Travail soigné (Une enquête de Camille Verhoeven) Éditions du Masque, Paris 2006 |
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2016 |
Pierre Lemaitre France |
The Great Swindle MacLehose Press, London 2015 |
Au revoir là-haut Albin Michel, Paris 2013 |
See you up there at Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014 |
2017 |
Leif GW Persson Sweden |
The Dying Detective Doubleday, London 2016 |
The dozing detective Bonnier, Stockholm 2010 |
The dying detective btb, Munich 2011 |
2018 |
Henning Mankell Sweden |
After the Fire Harvill Secker, London 2017 |
Svenska gummistövlar Leopard, Stockholm 2015 |
The Swedish Zsolnay rubber boots , Vienna 2016 |
2019 |
Dov Alfon Tunisia / Israel |
A Long Night at Paris MacLehose Press, London 2019 |
לילה ארוך בפריז (Lailah arokh be-Pariz) Zemorah-Bitan, Ḥevel Modiʻin 2016 |
Unit 8200 Rowohlt, Reinbek 2019 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or translated first editions
Best First Novel - John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (John Creasey Memorial Dagger)
With the John Creasey Memorial Dagger - New Blood Dagger since 2006 - the British Crime Writers Association (CWA) has honored the best first novel since 1973. The award is named after John Creasey , the founder of the CWA. Without changing the name of the award, it was sponsored by Chivers Press Publishers from 1973 to 2002 and by BBC Audiobooks from 2003 to 2005 . When Duncan Lawrie private bankers took over the main sponsorship (2006-2008), the name of the award changed to New Blood Dagger . After their withdrawal, the name changed to John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in 2009 . The prize pool is £ 1,000. In 1993 and 1996 there was no award.
year | Prize winner |
Original English title Publisher, Place Year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
John Creasey Memorial Dagger | |||
1973 | Kyril Bonfiglioli | Don't point That Thing at Me Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1972 |
Take that thing away from there Piper, Munich 1992 |
1974 | Roger L. Simon | The Big Fix Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco 1973 |
The business with power Goldmann, Munich 1979 |
1975 | Sara George | Acid drop Macmillan, London 1975 |
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1976 | Patrick Alexander | Death of a Thin Skinned Animal Macmillan, London 1976 |
A ball for the Teufel Scherz, Bern u. a. 1980 |
1977 | Jonathan Gash | The Judas Pair Collins, London 1977 |
The shot out of nowhere Scherz, Bern u. a. 1980 |
1978 | Paula Gosling | A Running Duck Macmillan, London 1978 |
Killing is a lonely business Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980 |
1979 | David Serafin | Saturday of Glory Collins, London 1979 |
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1980 | Liza Cody | Dupe Collins, London 1980 |
Video pirate Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1986 |
1981 | James Leigh | The Ludi Victor Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1980 |
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1982 | Andrew Taylor | Caroline Miniscule Gollancz, London 1982 |
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1983 | Carol Clemeau | The Ariadne Clue Scribner’s, New York 1982 |
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Eric Wright | The Night the Gods Smiled Collins, London 1983 |
The night when the gods smiled Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990 |
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1984 | Elizabeth Ironside | A Very Private Enterprise Hodder & Stoughton, London 1984 |
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1985 | Robert Richardson | The Latimer Mercy Gollancz, London 1985 |
Boards that mean death Volk & Welt, Berlin 1992 |
1986 | Neville Steed | Tinplate Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1986 |
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1987 | Denis Kilcommons | Dark Apostle Bantam Books, London 1987 |
The sun is shining so beautifully Diogenes, Zurich 1989 |
1988 | Janet Neel | Death's Bright Angel Constable, London 1988 |
The shining angel of death Econ, Düsseldorf 1992 |
1989 | Annette Roome | A Real Shot in the Arm Hodder & Stoughton, London 1989 |
Career with Schuß Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992 |
1990 | Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem Scribner’s, New York 1990 |
Murder on Saturday morning Droemer Knaur, Munich 1992 |
1991 | Walter Mosley | Devil in a Blue Dress Norton, New York 1990 |
Teufel in Blau Knaus, Munich 1992 |
1992 | Minette Walters | The Ice House Macmillan, London 1992 |
In the Ice House Goldmann, Munich 1994 |
1994 | Doug J. Swanson | Big Town HarperCollins, New York 1994 |
Big Town Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996 |
1995 | Janet Evanovich | One for the Money Scribner’s, New York 1994 |
Once is not even Goldmann, Munich 1996 |
1997 | Paul Johnston | Body Politic Hodder & Stoughton, London 1997 |
The cold city of Droemer Knaur, Munich 2000 |
1998 | Denise Mina | Garnet Hill Batam Press, London 1998 |
Scream louder, Mauren Lichtenberg, Munich 1999 |
1999 | Dan Fesperman | Lie in the Dark Soho Press, New York 1999 |
Lies in the Dark List, Munich 2000 |
2000 | Boston Teran | God is a Bullet Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1999 |
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2001 | Susanna Jones | The Earthquake Bird Picador, London 2001 |
Where the earth quakes Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001 |
2002 | Louise Welsh | The Cutting Room Canongate, Edinburgh 2002 |
Darkroom Kunstmann, Munich 2004 |
2003 | William Landay | Mission Flats Delacorte Press, New York 2003 |
Heyne hunting area , Munich 2008 |
2004 | Mark Mills | Amagansett Fourth Estate, London 2004 |
Amagansett Blessing, Munich 2004 |
2005 | Dreda Say Mitchell | Running Hot Maia, London 2004 |
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New Blood Dagger | |||
2006 | Louise Penny | Still Life Hodder Headline, London 2005 |
Because everyone is to blame Limes, Munich 2006 |
2007 | Gillian Flynn | Sharp Objects Shaye Areheart Books, New York 2006 |
Cry Baby Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2007 |
2008 | Matt Rees | The Bethlehem Murders Houghton Mifflin Mariner, Boston 2007 as: The Collaborator of Bethlehem |
The traitor of Bethlehem Beck, Munich 2008 |
2009 | Johan Theorin | Echoes from the Dead Doubleday, New York 2008 |
Öland Piper, Munich 2009 |
2010 | Ryan David Jahn | Acts of Violence Macmillan New Writing, Basingstoke 2009 |
An act of violence Heyne, Munich 2011 |
2011 | SJ Watson | Before I Go to Sleep Doubleday, London 2011 |
I. may. Not. sleep. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2011 |
2012 | Wiley Cash | A Land More Kind than Home Doubleday, London 2012 |
Fear Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013 |
2013 | Derek B. Miller | Norwegian by Night Faber and Faber, London 2013 |
A strange place to die Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013 |
2014 | Ray Celestin | The Axeman's Jazz Mantle, Croydon, London 2012 |
Hell Jazz in New Orleans Piper, Munich 2018 |
2015 | Smith Henderson | Fourth of July Creek ECCO, New York 2014 |
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2016 | Bill Beverly | Dodgers No Exit Press, Harpenden 2016 |
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2017 | Chris Whitaker | Tall Oaks twenty7, 2016 |
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2018 | Melissa Scrivner Love | Lola Point Blank, 2017 |
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2019 | Chris Hammer | Scrublands Wildfire, London 2019 |
Outback Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2019 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Lifetime Achievement Award - CWA Diamond Dagger (Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award)
The Cartier Diamond Dagger has been awarded since 1986 and is in principle the most important award of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA), similar to its American counterpart, the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA). It is only granted to outstanding authors who have made special contributions to the English-language crime thriller during their previous literary life, if necessary whose works have been translated into English and published. Cartier UK sponsored the award for the last time in 2011 .
year |
Award winner nationality |
year |
Award winner nationality |
year |
Award winner nationality |
year |
Award winner nationality |
Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award | |||||||
1986 |
Eric Ambler England |
1987 |
PD James England |
1988 |
John le Carré England |
1989 |
Dick Francis England |
1990 |
Julian Symons England |
1991 |
Ruth Rendell England |
1992 |
Leslie Charteris England |
1993 |
Ellis Peters England |
1994 |
Michael Gilbert England |
1995 |
Reginald Hill England |
1996 |
HRF Keating England |
1997 |
Colin Dexter England |
1998 |
Ed McBain USA |
1999 |
Margaret Yorke England |
2000 |
Peter Lovesey England |
2001 |
Lionel Davidson England |
2002 |
Sara Paretsky United States |
2003 |
Robert Barnard England |
2004 |
Lawrence Block USA |
2005 |
Ian Rankin England |
2006 |
Elmore Leonard United States |
2007 |
John Harvey England |
2008 |
Sue Grafton USA |
2009 |
Andrew Taylor England |
2010 |
Val McDermid Scotland |
2011 |
Lindsey Davis England |
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CWA Diamond Dagger | |||||||
2012 |
Frederick Forsyth England |
2013 |
Lee Child England |
2014 |
Simon Brett England |
2015 |
Catherine Aird England |
2016 |
Peter James England |
2017 |
Ann Cleeves England |
2018 |
Michael Connelly USA |
2019 |
Robert William Goddard England |
Best nonfiction book in crime fiction - Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
With the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction , the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has also been presenting an award for the best non-fiction book in crime fiction since 1978. It is currently rewarded with £ 1,000 and a Gold Dagger. Macallan Distillers sponsored the award between 1995 and 2002, which resulted in the temporary name change to Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction . Owatonna Media sponsored the award in 2008 and the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) from London took over this in 2018.
In 1978 and 1979 there was a Silver Dagger for Non-Fiction for the runner -up . In 2007 and 2009 there was no award.
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
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CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction | ||||
1978 | Audrey Williamson | The Mystery of the Princes Alan Sutton, Dursley 1978 |
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1979 | Shirley Green | Rachman Michael Joseph, London 1979 |
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1980 | Anthony Summers | Conspiracy Fontana, London 1980 |
The truth about the Kennedy murder Langen Müller, Munich / Berlin 1983 |
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1981 | Jacobo Timerman | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number Alfred Knopf, New York 1973 |
We roared inwards: Torture in the dictatorship today Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982 |
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1982 | John Cornwell | Earth to Earth Allan Lane, London 1982 |
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1983 | Peter Watson | Double Dealer Hutchinson, London 1983 |
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1984 | David Yallop | In God's Name Jonathan Cape, London 1984 |
In the name of God? Droemer Knaur, Munich 1984 |
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1985 | Brian Masters | Killing for Company Jonathan Cape, London 1985 |
Lifeless lovers: the murders of Dennis Nilsen Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994 |
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1986 | John Bryson | Evil Angels Viking, Melbourne / Australia 1985 |
A scream in the dark Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989 |
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1987 |
Bernard Taylor and Stephen Knight |
Perfect Murder Grafton, London 1987 |
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1988 | Bernard Wasserstein | The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988 |
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1989 | Robert Lindsey | A Gathering of Saints Simon & Schuster, New York 1988 |
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1990 | Jonathan Goodman | The Passing of Starr Faithfull Piatkus, London 1990 |
Mörder in Weiss Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1993 |
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1991 | John Bossy | Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair Yale University Press, New Haven 1991 |
Agent of the Queen Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995 |
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1992 | Charles Nicholl | The Reckoning Jonathan Cape, London 1992 |
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1993 | Alexandra Artley | Murder in the Heart Hamish Hamilton, London 1993 |
In the heart of the Heyne family , Munich 1995 |
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1994 | David Canter | Criminal Shadows Hutchinson, London 1992 |
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Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction | ||||
1995 | Michael Harris | The Prodigal Husband McClelland & Stewart, Toronto / Canada 1994 |
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1996 | Antonia Fraser | The Gunpowder Plot Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1996 |
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1997 | Paul Britton | The Jigsaw Man Bantam Books, London 1997 |
The profile of the murderer Econ, Düsseldorf / Munich 1998 |
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1998 | Gitta Sereny | Cries Unheard Eyre Methuen, London 1972 |
Screams that nobody hears Blessing, Munich 1998 |
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1999 | Brian Cathcart | The Case of Stephen Lawrence Penguin Books, London 2000 |
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2000 | Edward Bunker | Mr. Blue No Exit Press, Harpenden 1999 |
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2001 |
Philip Etienne , Martin Maynoard , and Tony Thompson |
The Infiltrators Michael Joseph, London 2000 |
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2002 | Lilian Pizzichini | Dead Men's Wages Picador, London 2002 |
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CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction | ||||
2003 | Samantha Vineyard | Pointing from the Grave Miramax Books, New York 2003 |
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2004 | John Dickie | Cosa Nostra Hodder & Stoughton, London 2004 |
Cosa Nostra S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006 |
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Sarah Wise | The Italian Boy Metropolitan Books, New York 2004 |
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2005 | Gregg and Gina Hill | On the Run: A Mafia Childhood Warner Books, Clayton / Australia 2004 |
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2006 |
Linda Rhodes , Lee Shelden and Kathryn Abnett |
The Dagenham Murder The Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London 2005 |
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2008 | Kester Aspden | Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale Random House UK, London 2007 |
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2010 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice Harvill Secker, London 2009 |
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2011 | Douglas Starr | The Killer of Little Shepherds Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2010 |
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2012 | Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan | The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden Ballantine Books, New York 2011 |
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2013 | Paul French | Midnight in Peking Viking, Beijing 2011 |
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2014 | Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark | The Siege Viking UK, London 2013 |
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2015 | Dan Davies | In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile Quercus, London 2014 |
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2016 | Andrew Hankinson | You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] Scribe, 2016 |
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2017 | Stephen Purvis | Close but No Cigar Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017 |
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CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction | ||||
2018 | Thomas Harding | Blood on the Page. A Murder, a Secret Trial, a Search for the Truth Heinemann, 2018 |
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2019 | Ben Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor Viking, London 2018 |
1 = publisher and year information refer to the English-language original or German first editions
Best work by an unpublished author - Debut Dagger
The Debut Dagger has been awarded by the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for previously unpublished stories since 1998 . Authors from all over the world who have not yet had any publications may take part. The work can contain a maximum of 3,000 words and must be written in English. The award is sponsored by the London publisher Orion . The prize pool is currently £ 700.
year | Prize winner | Original title |
1998 | Joolz Denby | Stone Baby (Ger. In the heart the darkness . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001) |
1999 | Caroline Seed | Blood Junction |
2000 | Simon Levack | A flowery death |
2001 | Edward Wright | Clea's Moon |
2002 | Ilona van Mill | Sugarmilk Falls |
2003 | Kirsty Evans | The cuckoo |
2004 | Ellen Grubb | The Doll Makers |
2005 | Ruth Dugdall | The Woman Before Me |
2006 | Otis Twelve | Imp: Being the Lost Notebooks of Rufus Wilmot Griswold In the Matter of the Death of Edgar Allan Poe |
2007 | Alan Bradley | The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie (Eng. Mord im Gurkenbeet . Penhaligon, Munich 2009) |
2008 | Amer Anwar | Western fringes |
2009 | Catherine O'Keefe | The pathologist |
2010 | Patrick Eden | A place of dying |
2011 | Michèle Rowe | What Hidden Lies (German Cape of Lies . Knaur TB, Munich 2014) |
2012 | Sandy Gingras | Beached |
2013 | Finn Clarke | Call time |
2014 | Jody Sabral | The Movement |
2015 | Greg Keen | Last of the Soho Legends |
2016 | Mark Brandi | Wimmera |
2017 | Sherry Rankin | Strange Fire |
2018 | Bill Crotty | The Eternal Life of Ezra Ben Simeon |
2019 | Shelley Burr | Wake up |
Best Historical Detective Novel - CWA Historical Dagger (Ellis Peters Historical Award)
As the Ellis Peters Historical Award (until 2005: Ellis Peters Historical Dagger ), the award has been given since 1999 by the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) "for novels with a criminal background and a subject matter from the period before 1960" . The award was financed from the estate of the writer and namesake Ellis Peters (* 1913 - † 1995, pseudonym of Edith Mary Pargeter ) and the sponsorship of her publishers Headline Book Publishing Group and Little, Brown Book Group . The prize money was £ 3,000. With the awarding of the award in 2014 a new sponsor was found: The London e-book publisher Endeavor Press will support the CWA in the future with the award of historical crime literature. In recognition of this commitment, the CWA renames the Ellis Peters Historical Award after 15 years as the CWA Endeavor Historical Dagger . Sapere Books Ltd., London has been sponsoring the historic Dagger since 2019 ; hence it is now called CWA Sapere Books Historical Dagger .
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger | |||
1999 | Lindsey Davis | Two for the Lions Century, London 1998 |
The lion to eat Droemer Knaur, Munich 2001 |
2000 | Gillian Linscott | Absent Friends Virago, London 1999 |
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2001 | Andrew Taylor | The Office of the Dead HarperCollins, London 2000 |
A mass for the dead Zsolnay, Vienna 2002 |
2002 | Sarah Waters | Fingersmith Virago, London 2002 |
As long as you lie Rütten and Loening, Berlin 2003 |
2003 | Andrew Taylor | The American Boy Flamingo, London 2003 |
The Sleep of the Dead Goldmann, Munich 2005 |
2004 | Barbara Cleverly | The Damascened Blade Constable & Robinson, London 2003 |
The death of Khan Goldmann, Munich 2005 |
2005 | CJ Sansom | Dark Fire Macmillan, London 2004 |
Fire of Retribution Joke, Frankfurt am Main 2005 |
Ellis Peters Historical Award | |||
2006 | Edward Wright | Red Sky Lament Orion, London 2006 |
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2007 | Ariana Franklin | Mistress of the Art of Death Bantam Press, London 2007 |
The death reader Droemer, Munich 2007 |
2008 | Laura Wilson | Stratton's War Orion, London 2008 |
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2009 | Philip Kerr | If the Dead Rise Not Quercus, London 2009 |
The Adlon Conspiracy Wunderlich, Reinbek 2010 |
2010 | Rory Clements | Revenger John Murray, London 2010 |
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2011 | Andrew Martin | The Somme Stations Faber & Faber, London 2011 |
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2012 | Aly Monroe | Icelight John Murray, London 2011 |
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2013 | Andrew Taylor | The Scent of Death HarperCollins, London 2012 |
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Endeavor Historical Dagger | |||
2014 | Antonia Hodgson | Devil in the Marshalsea Hodder & Stoughton, London 2013 |
The Teufelsloch Knaur, Munich 2014 |
2015 | SG MacLean | The Seeker Quercus, London 2014 |
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2016 | David Young | Stasi Child twenty7, 2016 |
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2017 | Abir Mukherjee | A Rising Man Harvill Secker, London 2016 |
A respected man Heyne, Munich 2017 |
2018 | Rory Clements | Nucleus Zaffre Publishing, 2018 |
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Sapere Books Historical Dagger | |||
2019 | SG MacLean | Destroying Angel Quercus, London 2018 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Libraries Author of the Year - Dagger in the Library (The Golden Handcuffs)
The Dagger in the Library is awarded to the living British authors whose novels have been the most loaned and thus achieved the greatest readership. The winners are not nominated by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) but by British libraries; the final decision will be made by a jury of British librarians. After a five-year hiatus, the Random House Group has sponsored the award since 2002 with prize money of £ 1,500.
year | Prize winner | year | Prize winner | year | Prize winner |
1994 | Robert Barnard | 1995 | Lindsey Davis | 1996 | Marian Babson |
2002 | Peter Robinson | 2003 | Stephen Booth | 2004 | Alexander McCall Smith |
2005 | Jake Arnott | 2006 | Jim Kelly | 2007 | Stuart MacBride |
2008 | Craig Russell | 2009 | Colin Cotterill | 2010 | Ariana Franklin |
2011 | Mo Hayder | 2012 | Steve Mosby | 2013 | Belinda Bauer |
2014 | Sharon Bolton | 2015 | Christopher Fowler | 2016 | Elly Griffiths |
2017 | Mari Hannah | 2018 | Martin Edwards | 2019 | Kate Ellis |
Best thriller - Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is a relatively new award for the best English language thriller , the style of which is based on the tradition of James Bond’s . The award has been presented since 2002 and is supported by Ian Fleming (Glidrose) Publications Ltd. Sponsored. The prize money is £ 2,000.
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
2002 | John Creed | The Sirius Crossing Faber & Faber, London 2002 |
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2003 | Dan Fesperman | The Small Boat of Great Sorrows Random House, New York 2002 |
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2004 | Jeffery Deaver | Garden of Beasts Simon & Schuster, New York 2004 |
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2005 | Henry Porter | Brandenburg Orion, London 2005 |
Brandenburg Ullstein, Berlin 2006 |
2006 | Nick Stone | Mr Clarinet Michael Joseph, London 2006 |
Voodoo Goldmann, Munich 2007 |
2007 | Gillian Flynn | Sharp Objects Random House, New York 2006 |
Cry Baby Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2007 |
2008 | Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 Simon & Schuster UK, London 2008 |
Child 44 DuMont, Cologne 2008 |
2009 | John Hart | The Last Child John Murray, London 2009 |
The last child C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010 |
2010 | Simon Conway | A Loyal Spy Hodder & Stoughton, London 2010 |
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2011 | Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist Minotaur Books, New York 2009 |
The man from the Safe Droemer HC, Munich 2012 |
2012 | Charles Cumming | A Foreign Country HarperCollins, London 2012 |
The Tunis Affaire Goldmann, Munich 2014 |
2013 | Roger Hobbs | Ghostman Doubleday, London 2013 |
Ghostman Goldmann, Munich 2013 |
2014 | Robert Harris | To Officer and a Spy Hutchinson, London 2013 |
Intrige Heyne, Munich 2013 |
2015 | Karin Slaughter | Cop Town Delacorte Press, New York 2014 |
Cop Town - City of Fear Blanvalet, Munich 2015 |
2016 | Don Winslow | The Cartel William Heinemann, New York 2015 |
The Droemer cartel , Munich 2015 |
2017 | Mick Herron | Spook Street John Murray, 2017 |
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2018 | Attica Locke | Bluebird, Bluebird Serpent’s Tail |
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2019 | Holly Watts | To the Lions Raven Books, London 2019 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best National Crime Fiction Publisher - Publishers' Award
The prize, which is the first new award in over 10 years, is intended to honor publishers whose services mark outstanding achievements and diversity in the publication of crime literature.
year | Prize winner | year | Prize winner | year | Prize winner |
2019 | No Exit Press (Oldcastle Books Group) |
Dagger Awards, which are given once
Best Detective Novel of the 1930s - Rusty Dagger
Among the different price categories, the Rusty Dagger is a curiosity. It is awarded in 1996 for the best detective novel of the 1930s. The German translation of the award-winning novel has also been available since 1980 under the title Der Glockenschlag (see on this term: Wechseläuten ).
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1996 | Dorothy L. Sayers | The Nine Tailors Gollancz, London 1934 |
The nine tailors Wunderlich, Tübingen 1958 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best detective novel of the last 50 years - Dagger of Daggers
The Dagger of Daggers is the result of a vote by around 450 members of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA). In 2005, to mark the 50th anniversary of the CWA, the authors were asked to choose the best novel, the Dagger of Daggers , from the Gold Dagger award winners .
space | Author |
Original English title Publisher, Place Year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
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Winner of the Dagger of Daggers | ||||
1 | John le Carré | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Gollancz, London 1963 |
The spy who came out of the cold Zsolnay, Vienna 1964 |
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Still nominated | ||||
2 | Reginald Hill | Bones and Silence Collins, London 1990 |
The dark lady means it Ernst Europe, Hamburg 2003 |
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3 | Peter Lovesey | The False Inspector Dew Macmillan, London 1982 |
Farewell in English Droemer Knaur, Munich 1983 |
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4th | Val McDermid | The Mermaids Singing HarperCollins, London 1995 |
The song of the sirens Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997 |
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5 | Anthony Price | Other Paths To Glory Gollancz, London 1974 |
Detours to fame Wunderlich, Tübingen 1977 |
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6th | Martin Cruz Smith | Gorky Park Random House, New York 1981 |
Gorki Park Scherz, Bern a. a. 1982 |
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7th | Barbara Vine | A Fatal Inversion Viking, London 1987 |
The sun is shining so beautifully Diogenes, Zurich 1989 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Dagger Awards that are no longer given
Best Foreign Crime Novel - Best Foreign Novel
With the Best Foreign Novel British award-winning Crime Writers' Association (CWA) irregularly 1964-1969 English or translated into English detective novels by authors who were not from England. Until 1963 there was probably the conviction that only works by English authors would be honored in the long term . After 1969, the Best Foreign Novel was no longer awarded. To compensate, the Gold Dagger was also awarded for foreign, English-language original titles - in 1973 for the first time to the American Robert Littell for his novel The Defection of AJ Lewinter . It was not until 28 years later that the CWA awarded Henning Mankell for the first time to a foreign, foreign-language author with the Gold Dagger .
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1964 | Patricia Highsmith | The Two Faces of January Garden City, New York 1964 |
Accident on Crete Rowohlt, Reinbek 1966 |
1966 | John Ball | In the Heat of the Night Harper & Row, New York 1965 |
In the heat of the night Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1984 |
1968 | Sébastien Japrisot | The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun Simon & Schuster, New York 1967 |
Portrait of a lady in a car with glasses and rifle Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967 |
1969 | Rex stout | The Father Hunt Viking Press, New York 1968 |
The sins of the fathers Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1968 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Best British Detective Novel - Best British Novel
The British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) awarded the Best British Novel in 1965 and 1967 to two detective novels that belong to the (espionage) thriller sub- genre.
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1965 | Gavin Lyall | Midnight Plus One Hodder and Stoughton, London 1965 |
Midnight plus one Blanvalet, Berlin 1966 |
1967 | Eric Ambler | Dirty Story Bodley Head, London / Sydney 1967 |
Dirty story Diogenes, Zurich 1968 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Second best English-language novel - Silver Dagger for Fiction
The British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) awarded the Silver Dagger for Fiction to the second-placed detective novel (after the Gold Dagger) . The prize was awarded between 1969 and 2005, was renamed in 1995 and officially carried the title Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction until 2002 - in favor of the sponsor Macallan Distillers . Once in 1994, a non-English speaking author conquered the Silver Dagger: The Dane Peter Høeg with his well-known and filmed novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow . The prize money for the Silver Dagger was £ 2,000 (approx. € 2,850).
year | Prize winner |
Original English title Publisher, Place Year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
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CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction | ||||
1969 | Francis Clifford | Another Way of Dying Hodder & Stoughton, London 1968 |
The cowardly hero Schneekluth, Munich 1970 |
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1970 | Anthony Price | The Labyrinth Makers Gollancz, London 1970 |
Labyrinth Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1986 |
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1971 | PD James | Shroud for a Nightingale Faber & Faber, London 1971 |
Death in a white bonnet Wunderlich, Tübingen 1978 |
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1972 | Victor Canning | The Rainbird Pattern Heinemann, London 1972 |
On the trail of Günther, Stuttgart 1974 |
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1973 | Gwendoline Butler | A Coffin for Pandora Macmillan, London 1973 |
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1974 | Francis Clifford | The Grosvenor Square Goodbye Hodder & Stoughton, London 1974 |
The double motif Schneekluth, Munich 1977 |
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1975 | PD James | The Black Tower Faber & Faber, London 1975 |
The Wunderlich Black Tower , Tübingen 1982 |
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1976 | James McClure | Rogue Eagle Macmillan, London 1976 |
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1977 | William McIlvanney | Laidlaw Hodder & Stoughton, London 1977 |
Basically a very poor dog Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979 |
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1978 | Peter Lovesey | Waxwork Macmillan, London 1978 |
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1979 | Colin Dexter | Service of all the Dead Macmillan, London 1979 |
A fair for all the dead Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986 |
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1980 | Ellis Peters | Monk's Hood Collins, London 1980 |
The monk's herb Heyne, Munich 1986 |
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1981 | Colin Dexter | The Dead of Jericho Macmillan, London 1981 |
The dead by Jericho Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986 |
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1982 | ST Haymon | Ritual Murder Constable, London 1982 |
Ritual murder Piper, Munich 1986 |
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1983 | William McIlvanney | The Papers of Tony Veitch Hodder & Stoughton, London 1983 |
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1984 | Ruth Rendell | The Tree of Hands Hutchinson, London 1984 |
The mothers Rowohlt's masks , Reinbek 1985 |
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1985 | Dorothy Simpson | Last Seen Alive Michael Joseph, London 1985 |
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1986 | PD James | A Taste for Death Faber & Faber, London 1986 |
The aftertaste of death Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988 |
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1987 | Scott Turow | Presumed Innocent Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York 1987 |
For lack of evidence Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988 |
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1988 | Sara Paretsky | Blood Shot (en: Toxic Shock) Delacorte, New York 1988 |
Blood Shot Piper, Munich 1990 |
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1989 | Desmond Lowden | The Shadow Run Andre Deutsch, London 1989 |
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1990 | Mike Phillips | The Late Candidate Michael Joseph, London 1990 |
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1991 | Frances Fyfield | Deep Sleep Heinemann, London 1991 |
Deep sleep Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1991 |
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1992 | Liza Cody | Bucket Nut Chatto & Windus, London 1992 |
Heavy gun Goldmann, Munich 1993 |
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1993 | Sarah Dunant | Fatlands Hamish Hamilton, London 1993 |
Fette Weide Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995 |
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1994 | Peter Høeg | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Harvill, London 1993 |
Miss Smilla's feeling for snow Hanser, Munich 1994 |
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Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction | ||||
1995 | Peter Lovesey | The Summons Little, Brown, London 1995 |
Justice for a murderer Piper, Munich 1999 |
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1996 | Peter Lovesey | Bloodhounds Little, Brown, London 1996 |
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1997 | Janet Evanovich | Three to get Deadly Scribner’s, New York 1997 |
One, two, three and you're free Goldmann, Munich 1998 |
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1998 | Nicholas Blincoe | Manchester Slingback Picador, London 1998 |
Manchester Slingback dtv, Munich 2000 |
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1999 | Adrian Mathews | Vienna Blood Cape, London 1999 |
Wiener Blut Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002 |
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2000 | Donna Leon | Friends in High Places Heinemann, London 2000 |
Fine friends Diogenes, Zurich 2001 |
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2001 | Giles Blunt | Forty Words for Sorrow Random House Canada, Toronto 2000 |
Frozen Souls Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003 |
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2002 | James Crumley | The Final Country Mysterious Press, New York 2001 |
Land of Lies Shayol, Berlin 2007 |
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CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction | ||||
2003 | Morag Joss | Half-Broken Things Hodder & Stoughton, London 2002 |
The house's guardian Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003 |
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2004 | John Harvey | Flesh and Bloodt Heinemann, London 2004 |
Don't shout so loud dtv, Munich 2007 |
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2005 | Barbara Nadel | Deadly Web Headline, London 2005 |
Death on the Bosporus List, Munich 2006 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Second best nonfiction book in crime fiction - Silver Dagger for Non-Fiction
In 1978 and 1979 , the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) awarded the Silver Dagger for Non-Fiction - in addition to the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction - an award for the second-placed non-fiction book in crime fiction.
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year |
1978 |
Jon Connell and Douglas Sutherland |
Fraud Hodder & Stoughton, London 1978 |
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1979 | Harry Hawkes | The Capture of the Black Panther Harrap, London 1978 |
1 = publisher and year data refer to the original British editions
Best Police Novel - Police Review Award
The British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) awarded the Police Review Award between 1985 and 1987 to the best English-language crime novel in the sub-genre “Polizeiroman” (police procedural crime novel) . The award was sponsored by The Police Review .
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1985 | Andrew Arncliffe | Murder After the Holiday Hale, London 1985 |
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1986 | Bill Knox | The Crossfire Killings Century, London 1986 |
The dead from Loch Lomond Goldmann, Munich 1987 |
1987 | Roger Busby | Snow man Collins, London 1987 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Most humorous detective novel - Last Laugh Dagger (Punch Award)
With the Last Laugh Dagger (given in the first year under the name The Punch Award ), the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) honored the most humorous English-language crime novel from 1988 to 1996. There was no sponsor for this award. The small selection and the supposed contradiction between “detective novel” and “humor” led to the premature end of the award. Maybe a new Last Laugh Award has been revived - at least in name - in Bristol / UK at the CrimeFest crime festival there .
year | Prize winner |
Original English title Publisher, Place Year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1988 | Nancy Livingston | Death in a Distant Land Gollancz, London 1988 |
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1989 | Mike Ripley | Angel Touch Collins, London 1989 |
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1990 | Simon Shaw | Killer Cinderella Gollancz, London 1990 |
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1991 | Mike Ripley | Angel in Arms Collins, London 1991 |
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1992 | Carl Hiaasen | Native Tongue Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1991 |
Big animals Bertelsmann, Munich 1993 |
1993 | Michael Pearce | The Mamur Zapt and The Spoils of Egypt Collins, London 1992 |
The treasures of Pharaoh Diana, Munich 2000 |
1994 | Simon Shaw | The Villian of the Earth Gollancz, London 1994 |
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1995 | Laurence Shame | Sunburn Hyperion, New York 1995 |
Sunburn or Silent Days in Key West Europe, Munich a. a. 1996 |
1996 | Janet Evanovich | Two for the Dough Scribner’s, New York 1996 |
Twice is once too much Goldmann, Munich 1997 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
CWA '92 Award
Between 1990 and 1992 , the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) presented the CWA '92 Award to the best English-language detective novel set on mainland Europe. The award of the prize took place in honor of the European Economic Community , which expanded its tasks in 1992 (common foreign and security policy, police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, etc.) and henceforth European Community (EC) - without particular emphasis on economic cooperation - called.
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1990 | Michael Dibdin | Vendetta Faber & Faber, London 1990 |
Vendetta Goldmann, Munich 1993 |
1991 | Barbara Wilson | Gaudi Afternoon Seal Press, Berkeley (CA) 1990 |
An afternoon with Gaudi's argument, Hamburg 1992 |
1992 | Timothy Williams | Black August Gollancz, London 1992 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
Rumpole Award
The British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) awarded the Rumpole Award in 1990 and 1992 to the best English-language detective novel that most typically captured everyday British life.
year | Prize winner |
Original title publisher, location year 1 |
German title publisher, location year 1 |
1990 | Frances Fyfield | Trial by Fire Heinemann, London 1990 |
Feuerfüchse dtv, Munich 1991 |
1992 | Peter Rawlinson | Hatred and Contempt Chapmans, London 1992 |
1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition
See also
Web links
- Official website of the CWA (English)
Remarks
- ↑ This refers to the London bookstore Goldsboro Books , 23-25 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ
- ↑ The only currently known reference to this award (chiseled dagger, wooden base with applied brass plate and inscription "Crimer Writers' Association, Critical Award 1964, Patricia Highsmith") is in the estate of crime author Patricia Highsmith, which is administered in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern
- ↑ Published as an e-book in 2010 by William Morrow, New York
- ↑ The English-language original edition appeared after WorldCat 2017, the German-language first edition appeared according to DNB as early as 2016
- ↑ On their HP, the CWA incorrectly assigns the prize to David Serafin in 1978 and Paula Gosling in 1979. Serafin's book was only published in 1979, however, Gosling's book in 1978.
- ↑ Gillian Flynn also won the award in the "Best Thriller" category with Sharp Objects (Eng .: Cry Baby )
- ↑ cf. Message from the English Cartier representative Arnaud Bamberger at the award ceremony on May 16, 2011 (English, accessed October 25, 2014)
- ↑ A first English-language edition is listed for 1973. In Spanish, the title is under Preso sin nombre, celda sin número for the first time in 1981 in editions of Random House, New York (sic!) And Ed. Ateneo de Caracas / Venezuela. In 1983 a television film was made under the American book title (Eng. The path through hell) with Roy Scheider .
- ↑ cf. WorldCat, not listed in the DNB
- ↑ cf. WorldCat The revised British edition was only published in 1989 by Penguin Books, London
- ↑ The original British edition was published under the title The Case of Mary Bell . The revised British edition on which the award is based was published in 1998 by Macmillan, London under the expanded title Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell .
- ↑ The consideration in the award ceremony in 2013 is obviously based on the publication by the English publisher Viking Books Ltd., London 2012. Nevertheless, the English-language edition from Beijing is the original edition.
- ↑ Coroline Carver's pseudonym
- ^ Pseudonym of DV Wesselmann
- ↑ Gillian Flynn won the award in the category "Best First Novel" with Sharp Objects (Eng .: Cry Baby ) .
- ↑ The order is quoted from: Roger M. Sobin: The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librians. Scottsdale, Arizona: Poisened Pen Press, Edition 2007, p. 116.
- ↑ a b published at the same time in the USA
- ↑ pseudonym of writer Barbara Sjoholm
- ↑ In Roger M. Simon, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Scottsdale / Arizona: Poisened Pen Press, Edition 2007, p. 115, named Gaudi Collective as the winner of the award . This is very likely to be incorrect. This title cannot be found in WorldCat or other directories under the pseudonym Barbara Wilson or Barbara Sjoholm . Under Archive Link ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. there is, however, an indication of the correctness of Gaudi Afternoon as the winning title.