Maltese Falcon Award

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The Maltese Falcon Award ( Japanese フ ァ ル コ ン 賞 Farukon Shō , also: Falcon Award , not to be confused with the Norman Falcon Award ) is an international Japanese literary award for crime literature that is also known in Western Europe and the USA . Only novels that follow the tradition of American hard-boiled crime novels are honored.

The award has been presented by The Maltese Falcon Award Society in Japan (TMFS) since 1983 . The choice of the best novel is reserved exclusively for TMFS members. The award - a certificate and a wooden sculpture of the "Maltese Falcon" - reveals the connection to the founder of the hard-boiled novel Dashiell Hammett and his most famous novel, The Maltese Falcon , published in 1930 and filmed several times (including 1941 as " Die Spur des Falken" "with Humphrey Bogart in the lead role as Sam Spade).

Award winners

(No award 1996, 1998, 2000–2004, 2012–2013)

year Award winners American novel title
US publisher, location year
German title
publisher, location year
1983 Robert B. Parker Early Autumn
Delacorte Press, New York 1981
Final in autumn
Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1982
1984 LA Morse The Old Dick
William Morrow, New York 1981
Old brooms sweep well
Heyne, Munich 1983
1985 James Crumley The Wrong Case
Random House, New York 1975
Beautiful women don't lie
Piper, Munich 1998
1986 Joe Gores Hammett
Putnam's, New York 1975
Dashiell Hammett's last case,
Goldmann, Munich 1978
1987 Lawrence Block When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
Arbor House, New York 1986
After curfew
Heyne, Munich 1987
1988 Michael Z. Lewin Hard Line
William Morrow, New York 1982
1989 Andrew Vachss Strega
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1987
Strega
Ullstein, Berlin 1989
1990 Ryō Hara ( 原 尞 ) A Girl Who I Killed
1991 Sue Grafton F is for Fugitive
Henry Holt, New York 1989
She knew him briefly.
Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1990
1992 Lawrence Block A Ticket to the Boneyard
William Morrow, New York 1990
A ticket for the Heyne cemetery
, Munich 1991
1993 Stephen Greenleaf Book Case
William Morrow, New York 1991
Book of Lies
Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1993
1994 Don Winslow A Cool Breeze on the Underground
St, Martin's Press, New York 1991
A cold breath in the underground
Piper, Munich 1997
1995 Michael Connelly The Black Ice
Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1993
Schwarzes Eis
Heyne, Munich 1996
1997 James Ellroy White Jazz
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1992
White Jazz
Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1992
1999 George P. Pelecanos The Big Blowdown
St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 1999
The big killing
DuMont, Cologne 1999
2005 Toshihiko Yahagi ロ ン グ ・ グ ッ ド バ イ (Rongu guddobai = The Wrong Goodbye)
Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo 2004
2006 Michael Connelly Lost Light
Little, Brown & Co., Boston 2003
Last warning
Heyne, Munich 2005
2007 James Carlos Blake Under the Skin,
William Morrow, New York 2003

2008 Cormac McCarthy No Country For Old Men
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005
No land for old men
Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008
2009 SJ Rozan Winter and Night
St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2002

2010 Don Winslow The Power of the Dog
Heinemann, London 2004
Days of the Dead
Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010
2011 Don Winslow The Winter of Frankie Machine
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2006
Frankie Machine
Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2009
2014 Dennis Lehane Live by Night
William Morrow, New York 2012
In the night of
Diogenes, Zurich 2013
2015 Roger Hobbs Ghostman
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2013
Ghostman
Goldmann, Munich 2013
2016 Don Winslow Missing
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014
Missing. New York
Droemer, Munich 2014
2017 Nanami Wakatake Kurai Etsuryu
Kōbunsha, Tokyo 2014
2018 Robert Crais The Promise
G. P. Putnam's, New York 2015
Time of the Hunt
Heyne, Munich 2016
2019 Don Winslow The Force
Hāpākorinzujapan, Tokyo 2018
Corruption
Droemer, Munich 2018

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Basic information from Asahi in Japanese and English
  2. so far only published in Japanese (07/2009)