Marlowe (Literature Prize)

The Marlowe was a German literary prize for crime literature that was awarded in several categories by the Raymond Chandler Society (Germany) eV between 1992 and 2002 . Philip Marlowe is the most important protagonist in the novels of the American writer Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) and the namesake of the undoped award.

The society, founded by literary scholars and linguists in 1991, laid down a number of main criteria that applied to the work to be awarded: It had to be of convincing literary quality, make a valuable contribution to crime fiction and ultimately be based on originality and sophisticated content. Jurors were scientists of the association, but also critics, authors and other people.

Categories

category	awarded from - to
Best detective novel - International	1992-1999
Best Detective Novel - National	1993-2002
Best Detective Short Story - National	1996-2002

Award winners

Best detective novel - International

For this category only the foreign language original edition was evaluated. Any existing German translation was of no importance to the jurors; it was usually only available later - or not at all.

year	Prize winner	Original title publisher, location year	German title publisher, location year 1
1992	Michael Z. Lewin	Called by a Panther Mysterious Press, New York 1991	Call from the Panther Diogenes, Zurich 1992
1993	Sara Paretsky	Guardian Angel Delacorte Press, New York 1992	One for all Piper, Munich 1993
1994	Minette Walters	The Sculptress Macmillan, London 1993	The sculptor Goldmann, Munich 1995
1995	Lawrence Block	The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams Thorndike Press, Waterville / ME 1994
1996	Simon Beckett	Animals Allison & Busby, London 1995	Animals Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011
1997	Michael Connelly	The Poet Little, Brown & Co., New York 1996	The poet Heyne, Munich 1998
1998	Liza Cody	Musclebound Bloomsbury, London 1997	Flowers for Mama Goldmann, Munich 1998
1999	George P. Pelecanos	The Sweet Forever Little, Brown & Co., New York 1998	A sweet eternity DuMont, Cologne 2003

Best Detective Novel - National

year	Prize winner	title	publishing company
1993	Robert Brack	The girl with the flashlight	Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1992
1994	Christine Grän	Marx is dead	Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993
1995	Thea Dorn	Berlin Enlightenment	Rotbuch, Hamburg 1994
1996	Frank Goyke	Stupid boy, dead boy	Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1995
1997	Jürgen Alberts	The great sleep of JB Cool	Haffmans, Zurich 1996
1998	Horst Eckert	Whipped up	Grafit, Dortmund 1997
1999	Hans Schmidt Petersen	The deceivers	Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1998
2000	Monika Geier	How can you sleep	Argument, Hamburg 1999
2001	Roger M. Fiedler	Dreamin 'elephantz	Rotbuch, Hamburg 2000
2002	Jan Costin Wagner	Night drive	Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2001

Best Detective Short Story - National

year	Prize winner	title	Anthologie Verlag, location year
1996	Tatjana Kruse	Cool man strikes	The murderer comes on gentle paws (Ed. Leo P. Ard), Grafit, Dortmund 1995
1997	Robert Brack	The Easter bunny weekend	Bloody Bunny (Ed. Janwillem van de Wetering), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996
1998	Karina Lübke	make a wish	A corpse for a birthday (Ed. Janwillem van de Wetering), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997
1999	Carmen Korn	Death in Harvestehude	Black Issues No. 8 Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 1998
2000	Annette Döbrich	Model Venus	Ten murderous ways to happiness (Ed. Sara Paretsky), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999
2001	Birgit H. Hölscher	Sweet swamp	Black Issues No. 27 Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 2000
2002	Robert Lynn	The samurai in the Elbberg	Black Issues No. 31 Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 2001

See also

• List of crime writers

Itemization and comments

1. ↑ Various websites, such as B. Krimi-Couch.de
   (URL: http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/page,krimi-autoren-az,letter,b.html (under Block, Lawrence, accessed on January 11, 2012) ) incorrectly refer to the award as the “Philip Marlowe Award” .
   In English-speaking category is Best crime novel also found as Raymond Chandler Society Best Crime Novel .
2. ^ William Adamson (Ed.): Raymond Chandler Yearbook. 1. Andreas Haller Verlag, Passau 1996, p. 109.
3. ↑ The publisher and year information refer to the original or German first editions
4. ↑ The publisher and year information refer to the German-language original editions
5. ↑ Listed in the DNB as Hans S. Petersen
6. ↑ The publisher and year information refer to the German-language original editions