Dagger Award

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2014 Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Spain
The Siege
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2013
El asedio
Alfaguara, Madrid 2010
2015 Pierre Lemaitre
France
Camille
Quercus, London 2014
Travail soigné (Une enquête de Camille Verhoeven)
Éditions du Masque, Paris 2006
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
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
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
1982 Andrew Taylor Caroline Miniscule
Gollancz, London 1982
1983 Carol Clemeau The Ariadne Clue
Scribner’s, New York 1982
Eric Wright The Night the Gods Smiled
Collins, London 1983
The night when the gods smiled
Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990
1984 Elizabeth Ironside A Very Private Enterprise
Hodder & Stoughton, London 1984
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
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
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
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
2016 Bill Beverly Dodgers
No Exit Press, Harpenden 2016
2017 Chris Whitaker Tall Oaks
twenty7, 2016
2018 Melissa Scrivner Love Lola
Point Blank, 2017
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
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
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
1978 Audrey Williamson The Mystery of the Princes
Alan Sutton, Dursley 1978
1979 Shirley Green Rachman
Michael Joseph, London 1979
1980 Anthony Summers Conspiracy
Fontana, London 1980
The truth about the Kennedy murder
Langen Müller, Munich / Berlin 1983
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
1982 John Cornwell Earth to Earth
Allan Lane, London 1982
1983 Peter Watson Double Dealer
Hutchinson, London 1983
1984 David Yallop In God's Name
Jonathan Cape, London 1984
In the name of God?
Droemer Knaur, Munich 1984
1985 Brian Masters Killing for Company
Jonathan Cape, London 1985
Lifeless lovers: the murders of Dennis Nilsen
Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994
1986 John Bryson Evil Angels
Viking, Melbourne / Australia 1985
A scream in the dark
Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989
1987 Bernard Taylor and
Stephen Knight
Perfect Murder
Grafton, London 1987
1988 Bernard Wasserstein The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988
1989 Robert Lindsey A Gathering of Saints
Simon & Schuster, New York 1988
1990 Jonathan Goodman The Passing of Starr Faithfull
Piatkus, London 1990
Mörder in Weiss
Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1993
1991 John Bossy Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
Yale University Press, New Haven 1991
Agent of the Queen
Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995
1992 Charles Nicholl The Reckoning
Jonathan Cape, London 1992
1993 Alexandra Artley Murder in the Heart
Hamish Hamilton, London 1993
In the heart of the Heyne family
, Munich 1995
1994 David Canter Criminal Shadows
Hutchinson, London 1992
Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
1995 Michael Harris The Prodigal Husband
McClelland & Stewart, Toronto / Canada 1994
1996 Antonia Fraser The Gunpowder Plot
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1996
1997 Paul Britton The Jigsaw Man
Bantam Books, London 1997
The profile of the murderer
Econ, Düsseldorf / Munich 1998
1998 Gitta Sereny Cries Unheard
Eyre Methuen, London 1972
Screams that nobody hears
Blessing, Munich 1998
1999 Brian Cathcart The Case of Stephen Lawrence
Penguin Books, London 2000
2000 Edward Bunker Mr. Blue
No Exit Press, Harpenden 1999
2001 Philip Etienne ,
Martin Maynoard ,
and Tony Thompson
The Infiltrators
Michael Joseph, London 2000
2002 Lilian Pizzichini Dead Men's Wages
Picador, London 2002
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
2003 Samantha Vineyard Pointing from the Grave
Miramax Books, New York 2003
2004 John Dickie Cosa Nostra
Hodder & Stoughton, London 2004
Cosa Nostra
S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006
Sarah Wise The Italian Boy
Metropolitan Books, New York 2004
2005 Gregg and Gina Hill On the Run: A Mafia Childhood
Warner Books, Clayton / Australia 2004
2006 Linda Rhodes ,
Lee Shelden
and Kathryn Abnett
The Dagenham Murder
The Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London 2005
2008 Kester Aspden Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale
Random House UK, London 2007
2010 Ruth Dudley Edwards Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice
Harvill Secker, London 2009
2011 Douglas Starr The Killer of Little Shepherds
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2010
2012 Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
Ballantine Books, New York 2011
2013 Paul French Midnight in Peking
Viking, Beijing 2011
2014 Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark The Siege
Viking UK, London 2013
2015 Dan Davies In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
Quercus, London 2014
2016 Andrew Hankinson You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]
Scribe, 2016
2017 Stephen Purvis Close but No Cigar
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017
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
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
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
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
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
2011 Andrew Martin The Somme Stations
Faber & Faber, London 2011
2012 Aly Monroe Icelight
John Murray, London 2011
2013 Andrew Taylor The Scent of Death
HarperCollins, London 2012
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
2016 David Young Stasi Child
twenty7, 2016
2017 Abir Mukherjee A Rising Man
Harvill Secker, London 2016
A respected man
Heyne, Munich 2017
2018 Rory Clements Nucleus
Zaffre Publishing, 2018
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
2003 Dan Fesperman The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
Random House, New York 2002
2004 Jeffery Deaver Garden of Beasts
Simon & Schuster, New York 2004
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
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
2018 Attica Locke Bluebird, Bluebird
Serpent’s Tail
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
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
Still nominated
2 Reginald Hill Bones and Silence
Collins, London 1990
The dark lady means it Ernst
Europe, Hamburg 2003
3 Peter Lovesey The False Inspector Dew
Macmillan, London 1982
Farewell in English
Droemer Knaur, Munich 1983
4th Val McDermid The Mermaids Singing
HarperCollins, London 1995
The song of the sirens
Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997
5 Anthony Price Other Paths To Glory
Gollancz, London 1974
Detours to fame
Wunderlich, Tübingen 1977
6th Martin Cruz Smith Gorky Park
Random House, New York 1981
Gorki Park
Scherz, Bern a. a. 1982
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
CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction
1969 Francis Clifford Another Way of Dying
Hodder & Stoughton, London 1968
The cowardly hero
Schneekluth, Munich 1970
1970 Anthony Price The Labyrinth Makers
Gollancz, London 1970
Labyrinth
Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1986
1971 PD James Shroud for a Nightingale
Faber & Faber, London 1971
Death in a white bonnet
Wunderlich, Tübingen 1978
1972 Victor Canning The Rainbird Pattern
Heinemann, London 1972
On the trail of
Günther, Stuttgart 1974
1973 Gwendoline Butler A Coffin for Pandora
Macmillan, London 1973
1974 Francis Clifford The Grosvenor Square Goodbye
Hodder & Stoughton, London 1974
The double
motif Schneekluth, Munich 1977
1975 PD James The Black Tower
Faber & Faber, London 1975
The Wunderlich Black Tower
, Tübingen 1982
1976 James McClure Rogue Eagle
Macmillan, London 1976
1977 William McIlvanney Laidlaw
Hodder & Stoughton, London 1977
Basically a very poor dog
Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979
1978 Peter Lovesey Waxwork
Macmillan, London 1978
1979 Colin Dexter Service of all the Dead
Macmillan, London 1979
A fair for all the dead
Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986
1980 Ellis Peters Monk's Hood
Collins, London 1980
The monk's herb
Heyne, Munich 1986
1981 Colin Dexter The Dead of Jericho
Macmillan, London 1981
The dead by Jericho
Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986
1982 ST Haymon Ritual Murder
Constable, London 1982
Ritual murder
Piper, Munich 1986
1983 William McIlvanney The Papers of Tony Veitch
Hodder & Stoughton, London 1983
1984 Ruth Rendell The Tree of Hands
Hutchinson, London 1984
The mothers Rowohlt's masks
, Reinbek 1985
1985 Dorothy Simpson Last Seen Alive
Michael Joseph, London 1985
1986 PD James A Taste for Death
Faber & Faber, London 1986
The aftertaste of death
Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988
1987 Scott Turow Presumed Innocent
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York 1987
For lack of evidence
Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988
1988 Sara Paretsky Blood Shot (en: Toxic Shock)
Delacorte, New York 1988
Blood Shot
Piper, Munich 1990
1989 Desmond Lowden The Shadow Run
Andre Deutsch, London 1989
1990 Mike Phillips The Late Candidate
Michael Joseph, London 1990
1991 Frances Fyfield Deep Sleep
Heinemann, London 1991
Deep sleep
Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1991
1992 Liza Cody Bucket Nut
Chatto & Windus, London 1992
Heavy gun
Goldmann, Munich 1993
1993 Sarah Dunant Fatlands
Hamish Hamilton, London 1993
Fette Weide
Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995
1994 Peter Høeg Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Harvill, London 1993
Miss Smilla's feeling for snow
Hanser, Munich 1994
Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction
1995 Peter Lovesey The Summons
Little, Brown, London 1995
Justice for a murderer
Piper, Munich 1999
1996 Peter Lovesey Bloodhounds
Little, Brown, London 1996
1997 Janet Evanovich Three to get Deadly
Scribner’s, New York 1997
One, two, three and you're free
Goldmann, Munich 1998
1998 Nicholas Blincoe Manchester Slingback
Picador, London 1998
Manchester Slingback
dtv, Munich 2000
1999 Adrian Mathews Vienna Blood
Cape, London 1999
Wiener Blut
Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002
2000 Donna Leon Friends in High Places
Heinemann, London 2000
Fine friends
Diogenes, Zurich 2001
2001 Giles Blunt Forty Words for Sorrow
Random House Canada, Toronto 2000
Frozen Souls
Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003
2002 James Crumley The Final Country
Mysterious Press, New York 2001
Land of Lies
Shayol, Berlin 2007
CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction
2003 Morag Joss Half-Broken Things
Hodder & Stoughton, London 2002
The house's guardian
Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003
2004 John Harvey Flesh and Bloodt
Heinemann, London 2004
Don't shout so loud
dtv, Munich 2007
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
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
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
1989 Mike Ripley Angel Touch
Collins, London 1989
1990 Simon Shaw Killer Cinderella
Gollancz, London 1990
1991 Mike Ripley Angel in Arms
Collins, London 1991
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
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

Remarks

  1. This refers to the London bookstore Goldsboro Books , 23-25 ​​Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ
  2. 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
  3. Published as an e-book in 2010 by William Morrow, New York
  4. The English-language original edition appeared after WorldCat 2017, the German-language first edition appeared according to DNB as early as 2016
  5. 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.
  6. Gillian Flynn also won the award in the "Best Thriller" category with Sharp Objects (Eng .: Cry Baby )
  7. cf. Message from the English Cartier representative Arnaud Bamberger at the award ceremony on May 16, 2011 (English, accessed October 25, 2014)
  8. 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 .
  9. cf. WorldCat, not listed in the DNB
  10. cf. WorldCat The revised British edition was only published in 1989 by Penguin Books, London
  11. 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 .
  12. 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.
  13. Coroline Carver's pseudonym
  14. ^ Pseudonym of DV Wesselmann
  15. Gillian Flynn won the award in the category "Best First Novel" with Sharp Objects (Eng .: Cry Baby ) .
  16. 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.
  17. a b published at the same time in the USA
  18. pseudonym of writer Barbara Sjoholm
  19. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barbarasjoholm.com