Ngaio Marsh Award
The Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel is New Zealand's first national literary award for the best crime novel by a New Zealand writer. The award is named after the well-known New Zealand writer and theater director Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), whose works are also available in German translation.
The award has been presented by the Christchurch City Libraries since 2010 during the Christchurch Writers Festival . A special event during the festival, the setting the Stage for Murder in 2011 , provides the framework for this. Before the award winner is announced, the finalists will be presented to the public in a discussion round. The 7-member jury, consisting of local and international professionals from the literary scene, selects the winner from the best publications of the previous year that have to be published in New Zealand.
The winner will receive a hand-molded trophy from New Zealand artist Gina Ferguson , a full edition of the Ngaio Marsh novels from HarperCollins, and a cash award of $ 1,000 donated by the Christchurch Writers Festival Trust .
Award winners
- 2010 Alix Bosco for Cut & Run (German Cut & run: nothing like gone . Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86913-166-5 )
- 2011 Paul Cleave for Blood Men (Ger. Death in me . Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-45343-511-7 )
- 2012 Neil Cross for Luther. The Calling (German Luther. The threat . DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-6198-9 )
- 2013 Paul Thomas for Death on Demand
- 2014 Liam McIlvanney for Where the Dead Men Go
- 2015 Paul Cleave for Five Minutes Alone (German: The 5-Minute-Killer . Heyne, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-41847-9 )
- 2016 Paul Cleave for Trust no one (dt. Slashed . Heyne, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-43855-2 )
- 2017 Fiona Sussman for The Last Time We Spoke
- 2018 Alan Carter for Marlborough Man (German Marlborough Man . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-46932-3 )
- 2019 Fiona Kidman for This Mortal Boy
Web links
- Official website of the Christchurch City Libraries with winners and nominees (English retrieved on 25 November 2017)
- Setting the stage for murder . Christchurch Arts Festival, 2011, archived from the original onFebruary 7, 2013; accessed on February 4, 2016(English, original website no longer available).
- Report of the 2013 award ceremony from the Scoop Review of Books of December 2, 2013 (accessed March 22, 2014)