Grand prix de littérature policy
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The Grand prix de littérature policière (German: "Grand Prize for Crime Literature") is a French literary prize that is considered the most important award for works of crime literature . The prize was launched in 1948 by the French detective writer , translator and literary critic Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe (1918–2005). Since then, the best French detective novel and the best foreign detective novel in French translation have been selected every autumn in the categories National and International .
The winners are determined by a jury of up to ten members, which also consists of authors. Each of the jury members puts their favorite new publications over the year for discussion, after which a list of titles is drawn up, on which the jury gives its opinion. Well-known names like Eric Ambler , Didier Daeninckx , Mary Higgins Clark , Elizabeth George , Thomas Harris , Patricia Highsmith , Arnaldur Indriðason , PD James , Léo Malet and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán are among the honored authors of the last decades .
Award winners
National
year | Award winners | Novel title | German title | |
1948 | Léo Malet | Le Cinquième Procédé | The fifth method | |
1949 | Odette Sorensen | La parole est au mort | ||
1950 | Géo-Charles Véran | Jeux pour mourir | ||
1951 |
Jacques Decrest Germaine Decrest |
Fumées sans feu | The shadow of Clémentine | |
1952 | André Piljean | Passons la monnaie! | ||
1953 | Jean-Pierre Conty | Opération Odyssée | ||
1954 | François Brigneau | La beauté qui meurt | ||
1955 | Gilles Morris-Dumoulin | Assassin, mon frère | ||
1956 | Guy Venayre | Les petites mains de la justice | ||
Michel Lebrun | Pleins feux sur Sylvie | |||
1957 | Frédéric Dard | Le bourreau pleure | Angels of Death also cry tears | |
1958 | Fred Kassak | On n'enterre pas le dimanche | The dead man in the Bois de Boulogne | |
1959 | Paul Gerrard | Deuil en rouge | ||
1960 | Hubert Monteilhet | Les mantes religieuses | Deadly marriages | |
1961 | Prize not awarded | |||
1962 | Pierre Forquin | Le Procès du diable | ||
1963 | Sébastien Japrisot | Piège pour Cendrillon | Trap for Cinderella | |
1964 | Michel Carnal | La jeune morte | ||
1965 | Marc Delory | Bateau en Espagne | ||
1966 | Laurence Oriol | The internal service | Short circuit | |
1967 | Jean-Pierre Alem | Le Crocodile dans l'escalier | ||
1968 | Dominique Fabre | Un beau monstre | ||
1969 | Françis Ryck | Drôle de pistolet | ||
1970 | Paul Andréota | Zigzags | Zigzag murder | |
1971 | René Reouven | L'assassin maladroit | ||
1972 | Gilbert Tanugi | Le canal rouge | ||
1973 | Jean-Patrick Manchette | Ô dingos, ô châteaux! | Deadly castles in the air | |
1974 | André-Paul Duchâteau | De cinq à sept avec la mort | Murder in the blue hour | |
1975 | Yvon Toussaint | Un incident independent de notre volonté | ||
1976 | Jean-François Coatmeur | Les sirènes de minuit | Sirens at midnight | |
1977 | Christopher Diable | La plus longue course d'Abraham Coles chauffeur de taxi | The longest ride of the taxi driver Abraham Coles | |
1978 | Madeleine Coudray | Denouement avant l'aube | ||
1979 | Joseph Bialot | Le salon du prêt-à-saigner | The children's gang | |
1980 | Dominique Roulet | Le crime d'Antoine | Antoine's crime | |
1981 | Pierre Siniac | Aime le maudit L'unijambiste de la côte 284 Reflets changeants sur mare de sang |
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1982 | Jean-Pierre Cabanes | L'audience solennelle | ||
1983 | Jean Mazarin | Collabo song | ||
1984 | René Belletto | Sur la terre comme au ciel | Heavenly days and deadly affairs | |
1985 | Didier Daeninckx | Meurtres pour mémoire | If you remember murder / unauthorized persons | |
1986 | Gérard Delteil | N'oubliez pas l'artiste! | ||
Christian Gernigon | La queue du scorpion | |||
1987 | Jacques Sadoul | Trois morts au soleil | ||
1988 | Jean-Paul Demure | Aix abruptly | ||
1989 | Tito Topin | Un gros besoin d'amour | There is always blood flowing in the last act | |
1990 | Michel Quint | Billiards à l'étage | Billiards on the first floor | |
1991 | Hervé Jaouen | Hôpital basement | ||
1992 | Tonino Benacquista | La Commedia des ratés | Itaker blues | |
1993 | Paul Couturiau | Boulevard des ombres | ||
1994 | Jean-Jacques Fiechter | Tiré à part | Manuscript resulting in death | |
1995 | Philippe Huet | La main morte | ||
1996 | Jean-Hugues Oppel | Ambernave | ||
1997 | Brigitte Aubert | La mort des bois | In the dark of the woods | |
1998 | Serge Gardebled | Sans homicide fixe | ||
1999 | Laurent Bénégui | La paresse de Dieu | ||
2000 | Pascal Dessaint | You bruit sous le silence | ||
2001 | Michel Crespy | Chasseurs de têtes | ||
2002 | Patrick Pécherot | Les brouillards de la butte | Fog on Montmartre | |
2003 | Laurent Martin | L'ivresse des dieux | ||
2004 | Virginie Brac | Double peine | You wrote a dark song with my blood | |
2005 | Philip Le Roy | Le dernier testament | ||
2006 | Catherine Fradier | La colère des enfants déchus | ||
2007 | DOA | Citoyens clandestins | ||
2008 | Caryl Férey | Zulu | Zulu | |
2009 | Hervé Le Corre | Les cœurs déchirés | ||
2010 | Alexandra Schwartzbrod | Goodbye Jerusalem | ||
2011 |
DOA Dominique Manotti |
L'Honorable Société | The honorable company | |
2012 | Karim Miské | Arab jazz | You can never escape | |
2013 | Sandrine Collette | Des nœuds d'acier | ||
2014 | Antoine Chainas | Pure | ||
2015 | Joseph Incardona | Derriere les panneaux il ya des hommes | Asphalt jungle | |
2016 | Luc Chomarat | Un trou dans la toile | ||
2017 | Hannelore Cayre | La Daronne | The old | |
2018 | Marion Brunet | L'été circulaire |
International
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year | Award winners | French novel title (original title) | German title | |
1948 | Frances Noyes Hart | Le procès Bellamy (The Bellamy trial) |
The Bellamy case | |
1949 | Patrick Quentin | Puzzle au Mexique (Puzzle for pilgrims) |
Bloody revenge | |
1950 | Martha Albrand | Les Morts ne parlent plus (After Midnight) |
After midnight | |
1951 | Joel Townsley Rogers | Jeu de massacre (The Red right hand) |
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1952 | Patricia MacGerr | Bonnes à tuer (Follow as the Night) |
Dinner for five | |
1953 | Geoffrey Holiday Hall | L'homme de nulle part (The End is known) |
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Louis Malley | La “famille” pied-de-bouc (Horns for the devils) |
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1954 | Cornell Woolrich | Un pied dans la tombe (The Body in Grant's tomb) |
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1955 | Michael Gilbert | Un mort dans le tunnel (Death in captivity) |
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1956 | Joseph Hayes | Terreur dans la maison (The desperate hours) |
On a day like any other | |
Charles Williams | Peaux de bananes (Nothing in her way) |
The big twist | ||
1957 | Patricia Highsmith | Plein soleil - Monsieur Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley) |
The talented Mr. Ripley | |
1958 | Chester Himes | La rein des pommes (The five-cornered square) |
The Harlem Money Makers | |
1959 | Donald Downes | Bourreau, fais ton métier! (Orders to kill) |
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1960 | Thomas Sterling | Le Tricheur de Venise (The Evil of the day) |
The fox of Venice | |
1961 | Prize not awarded | |||
1962 | Susan Blanc | Feu vert pour la mort (The Green Stone) |
The green gem | |
1963 | Shelley Smith | La Fin des fins (The ballad of the running man) |
The second man | |
1964 | John D. MacDonald | La Tete sur le billot (A key to the suite) |
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1965 | Nicolas Freeling | Frontière belge (Gun before butter / Question of loyalty) |
Van der Valk and the smuggler | |
1966 | Adam Hall | Berlin memorandum (The Berlin Memorandum) |
The Berlin Memorandum | |
1967 | Audrey Erskine-Lindop | Comptes à rebors (I start counting) |
Dashed the bill | |
1968 | Giorgio Scerbanenco | A tous les râteliers (Traditori di tutti) |
The betrayed / Death to the conspirators / Killed twice is better | |
1969 | Josephine Tey | La Fille du temps (The daughter of time) |
Alibi for a King / Richard the Slandered | |
John Dickson Carr | Here, vous tuerez (Fire, burn!) |
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1970 | Antonis Samarakis | La Faille (Tò láthos) |
The mistake | |
1971 | Not so with Bodelsen | Crime sans châtiment (Hændeligt uheld) |
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Dorothy Uhnak | Le Registre (The Ledger) |
Which was to be proved ... | ||
1972 |
Laird Koenig Peter L. Dixon |
Attention, les enfants regardent (The children are watching) |
Children's hour | |
1973 | Howard Fast | La poudre aux yeux (Millie) |
Milly | |
1974 | Stanley Ellin | Miroir, miroir, dis-moi (Mirror, mirror, on the wall) |
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1975 |
Edward Boyd Roger Parkes |
Le Fil rompu (The Dark number) |
The dark angel | |
1976 | Eric Ambler | Docteur Frigo (Doctor Frigo) |
Doctor Frigo | |
1977 | Herbert H. Lieberman | Nécropolis (City of the Dead) |
necropolis | |
1978 | Ellery Queen | Et le huitième jour (And on the eighth day) |
Murder in Paradise | |
1979 | Stanislaw Lem | Le Rhume (Qatar) |
The cold | |
1980 | Mary Higgins Clark | La nuit du renard (A stranger is watching) |
The grace period | |
1981 | Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | Marquises, si vos rivages (Los mares del sur) |
Tahiti is near Barcelona | |
1982 | John Crosby | Le Clou de la Saison (Party of the year) |
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1983 | Frederick Forsyth | Sans bavures (No comebacks) |
There are no snakes in Ireland | |
1984 | Janwillem van de Wetering | Le Massacre du Maine (The Maine massacre) |
Maine massacre | |
1985 | Peter Lovesey | Trois flics dans un canot (Swing, swing together) |
River section to the gallows | |
1986 | Elmore Leonard | La Loi de la cité (City primeval) |
High Noon in Detroit / Decision in Detroit | |
1987 | Tony Hillerman | Là où dansent les morts (Dance hall of the dead) |
Shots from the Stone Age | |
1988 | PD James | Un Certain goût pour la mort (A taste for death) |
The aftertaste of death | |
Andrew Vachss | La Sorcière de Brooklyn (Strega) |
Strega | ||
1989 | Bill Pronzini | Hidden Valley (Snowbound) |
The snow was red with blood | |
1990 | Elizabeth George | Enquête dans le brouillard (A great deliverance) |
God save this house | |
1991 | Thomas Harris | Le silence des agneaux (The silence of the lambs) |
The silence of the Lambs | |
1992 | James Lee Burke | Black cherry blues (Black cherry blues) |
Black cherry blues | |
1993 | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | Le tableau du maître flamand (La tabla de Flandes) |
The secret of the black lady | |
1994 | Michael Dibdin | Cabale (Cabal) |
Ascension | |
1995 | Richard North Patterson | Degré de culpabilité (Degree of guilt) |
The measure of guilt | |
1996 | Caleb Carr | L'Aliéniste (The alienist) |
The encirclement | |
1997 | Stuart Woods | Change mortel (Imperfect strangers) |
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1998 | Frances Fyfield | Ombres chinoises (shadow play) |
Night terrors | |
1999 | Michael Connelly | Créance de sang (Blood work) |
The second heart | |
2000 | Rennie Airth | Un fleuve de ténèbres (River of darkness) |
Night without a face | |
2001 | Peter Robinson | Season sèche (In a dry season) |
In a hot summer | |
2002 | Peter Dickinson | Retour chez les vivants (One foot in the grave) |
With one leg in the grave | |
2003 | Deon Meyer | Les soldiers de l'aube (Orion) |
Death before dawn | |
2004 | John Katzenbach | L'Analyste (The analyst) |
The patient | |
2005 | Ian Rankin | La Mort dans l'âme (Dead souls) |
The souls of the dead | |
2006 | Larry Beinhart | Le bibliothécaire (The librarian) |
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2007 | Arnaldur Indriðason | La voix (Röddin) |
Angelic voice | |
2008 | Camilla Läckberg | La princesse des glaces (Isprinsessan) |
The ice princess is sleeping | |
2009 | Ken Bruen | La main droite du diable (Priest) |
Jack Taylor and the Prodigal Son | |
2010 | William Gay | La Mort au crépuscule (Twilight) |
Night incidents | |
2011 | Yishai Sarid | Le Poète de Gaza (Limassol) |
Limassol | |
2012 | Donald Ray Pollock | Le diable, tout le temps (The devil all the time) |
The devil's craft | |
2013 | James Sallis | Le tueur se meurt (The killer is dying) |
The killer dies | |
2014 | Ron Rash | Une terre d'ombre (The Cove) |
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2015 | Víctor del Árbol | Toutes les vagues de l'océan (Un millón de gotas) |
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2016 | Boris Quercia | Tant de chiens (Perro muerto) |
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2017 | Sara Lövestam | Chacun sa vérité (Sanning med modification) |
The truth behind the lie | |
2018 | Jake Hinkson | Sans lendemain (No Tomorrow) |
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See also
Web links
- Prize winners from 1948 to 2010 at polars.org (French). Accessed December 8, 2011