Poloni Prize

The Poloni Prize (original: Polonipriset ) was a national Swedish literary prize for crime literature , which was awarded briefly between 1998 and 2001 by the crime magazine Jury . Prize winners were only allowed to be crime authors. The award was named after the first Swedish crime writer Helena Poloni ( pseudonym of Ingegerd Stadener (1903–1968)).

With this award, the jury wanted to encourage the small number of up-and-coming Swedish authors observed up until the 1990s to devote themselves to the crime genre. The fact that the Swedish publishing houses had different contracts for male and female authors, the worse contracts for the women crime writers, turned out to be less lucrative. This led to the founding of the Piratförlaget in 1999 , which agreed with its authors a fairer 50% share of the profits.

In addition, female authors could hardly be identified in the literary awards of the Svenska Deckarakademin (Swedish Criminal Academy). An example was the award of the Swedish Crime Prize , which has existed since 1971, in the category of Best Swedish First Novel (Bästa svenska Debut): It wasn't until 1998 that he and Liza Marklund went to a crime writer. After the turn of the millennium, the number of female prize winners increased and became comparable to the female winners of crime literature prizes in other European countries.

Prize winners

• 1998 Liza Marklund for Sprängaren (German Olympic fire . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-455-04775-0 )
• 1999 Aino Trosell for Ytspänning ( Ger . Die Taucherin . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-378-00635-8 )
• 2000 Åsa Nilsonne for Kyskhetsbältet (German rivals . Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-45148-5 )
• 2001 Eva-Marie Liffner for Camera (German Camera . Reclam, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-379-00798-6 )

See also

• List of crime writers

Web links

• Short biography of Aino Trosell on the official Hp des Lindelöws Bokförlag (Swedish, accessed February 13, 2012)
• Portrait of Åsa Nilsonne on Schwedenkrimi.de

Notes / evidence

1. ↑ Best Swedish Crime Novel by a Female Writer in the English-speaking world , occasionally also Poloni Prize
2. ↑ founded in 1972, discontinued in 2008
3. ↑ cf. Jost Hindersmann (Ed.): Fjords, Elche, Murderers - The Scandinavian detective novel . Nordpark, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 3-935421-16-8
4. ↑ cf. z. B. Friedrich Glauser Prize - Best First Novel category , the New Blood Dagger of the British Crime Writers' Association or the Danish Palle Rosenkrantz Prize
5. ↑ 2001 filmed as Deadline - Terror in Stockholm , see IMDb
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Publisher's information and ISBN refer to the German first editions
7. ↑ Awarding of the award to Åsa Nilsonne ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report by Marie Hillblom in Folket (Swedish, accessed February 13, 2012)