Hammett Prize

The Hammett Prize (also: Dashiell Hammett Award; not to be confused with the Spanish Premio Hammett ) has been awarded annually since 1992 by the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers (IACW / NA) for the most excellent literary work published in the previous year Crime fiction given in English. The award ceremony takes place at a special event, the Bloody Words Conference .

Only works by authors who are permanent residents of the United States or Canada are considered. Nominations are made by an annually changing nominating committee consisting of members of the IACW. A minimum of three and a maximum of five works make it into the final round. The decision is made by a jury of three people: A well-known US or Canadian author who does not work in the field of crime literature. Second, a well-known editor or publisher and third, a well-known critic or bookseller who is also primarily not active in the field of crime literature. A categorization such as B. “Best Novel” or “Best First Novel”, as is often the case, was waived - only one prize is awarded: a statue by the German sculptor Peter Boiger, who lives in San Francisco , depicting a thin man. The name of the statue Thin Man indicates namesake and origin of the Hammett Prize: Dashiell Hammett , the pioneer of the American hard-boiled crime episode, wrote in 1934 his last novel The Thin Man (dt .: The Thin Man ), who also filmed has been.

Award winners

Chuck Hogan, 2005 Prize Winner, at the American Library Association Conference in Boston, January 2010

George Pelecanos, 2009 winner, at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival

year	Award winners	Original title publisher, location year 1	German title publisher, location year 1
1992	Elmore Leonard	Maximum Bob Delacorte Press, New York 1991	Alligator Goldmann, Munich 1994
1993	Alice Hoffman	Turtle Moon Putnam, New York 1992	Zaubermond Goldmann, Munich 1994
1994	James Crumley	The Mexican Tree Duck Mysterious Press, New York 1993	Tequila Blues Goldmann, Munich 1996
1995	James Lee Burke	Dixie City Jam Hyperion, New York 1994	Mississippi Jam Heyne, Munich 2017
1996	Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle's Cellar Doubleday, New York 1995	Under the Käfer Keller Goldmann, Munich 1998
1997	Martin Cruz Smith	Rose Random House, New York 1996	The black rose Knaus, Munich 1996
1998	William Deverell	Trial of Passion McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1997
1999	William Hoffman	Tidewater Blood Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill / North Carolina 1998	Atonement Knaur, Munich 2000
2000	Martin Cruz Smith	Havana Bay Random House, New York 1999	Night in Havana C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1999
2001	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2000	The blind murderer Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2000
2002	Alan Furst	Kingdom of Shadows Random House, New York 2000	The Realm of Shadows Knaus, Munich 2002
2003	Owen Parry	Honor's Kingdom Thorndike Press, Waterville / Maine, 2002
2004	Carol Goodman	The Seduction of Water Ballantine Books, New York 2003
2005	Chuck Hogan	Prince of Thieves Scribner's, New York 2004	Heyne final , Munich 2008
2006	Joseph Canon	Alibi Henry Holt, New York 2005	City without memory Blessing, Munich 2006
2007	Dan Fesperman	The Prisoner of Guantanamo Random House, New York 2006
2008	Gil Adamson	The Outlander House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2007	In the far distance, the dogs C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009
2009	George Pelecanos	The Turnaround Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2008
2010	Jedediah Berry	The Manual of Detection Penguin Press, New York 2009	Handbook for Detectives C. H. Beck, Munich 2010
2011	Olen Steinhauer	The Nearest Exit Minotaur Books, New York 2010	Last exit Heyne, Munich 2011
2012	James Sallis	The Killer is Dying Walker & Co., New York 2011	The killer dies Liebeskind, Munich 2011
2013	Howard Owen	Oregon Hill Permanent Press, Sag Harbor / New York 2012
2014	Richard Lange	Angel Baby Mulholland Books, New York 2013	Angel Baby Heyne, Munich 2015
2015	Stephen King	Mr. Mercedes Scribner, New York 2014	Mr. Mercedes Heyne, Munich 2014
2016	Lisa Sandlin	The Do-Right Cinco Puntos Press, Louisville 2015	A job for Delpha Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017
2017	Domenic Stansberry	The White Devil Molotov Editions, San Francisco / California, 2016

1 = Publisher and year information refer to the original or German first edition

Hints

1. ↑ Deviating from the following annual figures, the IACW / NA does not designate the year of the award ceremony, but the year of the book publication

See also

• List of crime writers

Web links

• Hp of the IACW (English)