Prix du Quai des Orfèvres
The Prix du Quai des Orfèvres ([ ˌpʁidyˌkɛdezɔʁ'fɛvrə ]; German: "Preis des Quai des Orfèvres") is a French literary prize that was launched in 1946 by the publisher Jacques Catineau . Catineau, who u. a. Maintained contacts with the police and high officials, wanted to improve the cooperation between them and the lawyers and created the award, with which an as yet unpublished detective novel in French is chosen every year . Since then, the prize has been awarded every year, usually in November, by a jury of around twenty, made up of police officers, judges, lawyers, journalists and filmmakers who have dealt with the world of justice and police. The chairmanship is incumbent on the head of the Paris criminal police. The name of the award is derived from the address of the headquarters of the criminal police, which was at 36 Quai des Orfèvres from 1913 to 2017 .
In the past, the General Secretary of the Prix du Quai des Orfèvres received approx. 60 to 85 anonymous manuscripts with at least 300,000 characters (including spaces) annually by spring, enclosed in sealed envelopes with precise information about the authors. He checked all the manuscripts and selected thirty from them, the number of which decreased to about twelve after further selection rounds. From these, the head of the French publishing house Fayard , which has been awarding the prize since 1966, together with the Secretary General, selected around six anonymous manuscripts, which were examined by the jury for their literary quality. Another criterion here was the precise description of police work and that of the judiciary. A first meeting of the jury took place at the end of September in the form of a working lunch and the members exchanged their views on the proposed anonymous manuscripts. A few days later, the jury was received by the head of the Paris Criminal Police at 36 Quai des Orfèvres, who chose the best detective novel there in a secret ballot. The jury then learned the identity of the winner through the sealed envelope enclosed with the manuscript.
The work selected by the jury will be published by Fayard as a paperback with at least 50,000 copies and an author's contract will be concluded with the winner. On the eve of the novel's publication, since 1947, the Prefect of Police of Paris has unveiled the winner and the title of the novel to the press at a festive cocktail party. The Prix du Quai des Orfèvres is endowed with a symbolic amount of 777 euros . Well-known names such as the science fiction writer Georges-Jean Arnaud , Jacques Laurent , Pierre Magnan and Gérard Delteil , winner of the 1986 Grand Prize of Litterature Policière , are represented among the honored authors of the past decades .
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Novel title | German title | |
| 1946 | Jacques Levert | Le Singe rouge | ||
| 1947 | Jean Le Hallier | Un certain monsieur ... | ||
| 1948 | Yves Fougères | Nuit et brouillard | ||
| 1949 | Francis Didelot | L'Assassin au clair de lune | ||
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| 1951 | Maurice Dekobra | Operation Magali | Mystery of Magali | |
| 1952 | Georges-Jean Arnaud ¹ | Ne tirez pas sur the inspector | ||
| 1953 | Jacques Laurent² | Sophie et le crime | The light went out in the stairwell | |
| 1954 | Alain Serdac & Jean Maurinay | Sans effusion de sang | ||
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| 1956 | Noël Calef | Échec au porteur | Death in hand | |
| 1957 | Louis C. Thomas | Poison d'Avril | ||
| 1958 | André Gillois | 125, rue Montmartre | Rue Montmartre 125 | |
| 1959 | Jean Marcillac | On ne tue pas pour s'amuser | ||
| 1960 | Remy | Le Monocle noir | The black monocle | |
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| 1962 | Micheline Sandrel | Dix millions de témoins | ||
| 1963 | Roland Pidoux | On y va, patron? | The dark truth | |
| 1964 | Jean-François Vignat | Vertige en eau profonde | ||
| 1965 | Paul Drieux | Archives interdites | ||
| 1966 | Julien Clay | You sang sur le grand livre | The fake | |
| 1967 | HL Dugall | La Porte d'or | ||
| 1968 | Bernard-Paul Lallier | Le Saut de l'ange | The fall of the black angel | |
| 1969 | Christian Charrière | Dites-le avec des fleurs | ||
| 1970 | Henry Chardot | Le Crime du vendredi saint | ||
| 1971 | André Friederich | Un mur de 500 briques | ||
| 1972 | Pierre Martin Perreaut | Trop, c'est trop! | The brilliant plan | |
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| 1974 | Michèle Ressi | La Mort du Bois de Saint-Ixe | ||
| 1975 | Bernard Matignon | Une mort qui fait du bruit | ||
| 1976 | Serge Montigny | Une fleur pour mourir | ||
| 1977 | Jacquemard Sénécal | Le Crime de la maison green | ||
| 1978 | Pierre Magnan | Le Sang des Atrides | The room behind the mirror | |
| 1979 | Julien Vartet | Le Déjeuner interrompu | ||
| 1980 | Denis Lacombe | In the creux de la main | ||
| 1981 | Michel Dansel | De la part de Barbara | With last greetings from Barbara | |
| 1982 | Hélène Pasquier | Coup double | ||
| 1983 | Maurice Périsset | Périls en la demeure | ||
| 1984 | Jean Lamborelle | On écrase bien les vipères | ||
| 1985 | Roger Labrusse | Les Crimes du Bon Dieu | ||
| 1986 | Michel de Roy | Sûreté urbaine | ||
| 1987 | Nicole Buffetaut | Le Mystère des petits lavoirs | ||
| 1988 | François Lantrade | Un agent très secret | ||
| 1989 | Godefroy Hofer | Plongée de nuit | ||
| 1990 | Suzanne Le Viguelloux | La mort au noir | ||
| 1991 | Frédéric Hoë | Crimes en trompe l'œil | ||
| 1992 | Louis-Marie Brézac | Raid sur l'antique | ||
| 1993 | Gérard Delteil | Pieces détachées | ||
| 1994 | Jean-Louis Viot | Une belle garce | ||
| 1995 | Michel Gastine | Quai de la Rapée | ||
| 1996 | Gilbert Schlogel | Rage de flic | ||
| 1997 | Roger Le Taillanter | Heures d'angoisse | ||
| 1998 | Michel Sibra | La danse du soleil | ||
| 1999 | André Delabarre | You sang sur les roses | ||
| 2000 | André Arnaud | Pierres de sang | ||
| 2001 | Guy Langlois | Le fond de l'âme effraie | ||
| 2002 | André Klopmann | Crève, l'écran | ||
| 2003 | Jérôme Jarrige | Le bandit n'était pas manchot | ||
| 2004 | Sylvie M. Jema | Les Sarments d'Hippocrate | ||
| 2005 | Jules Grasset | Les violons du diable | ||
| 2006 | Christelle Maurin | L'ombre du soleil | You have her name | |
| 2007 | Frédérique Molay | La 7e femme | The seventh wife | |
| 2008 | PJ Lambert | Le Vengeur des catacombes | ||
| 2009 | Christophe Guillaumot | Chasse à l'homme | ||
| 2010 | Gilbert Gallerne | Au pays des ombres | ||
| 2011 | Claude Ragon | You bois pour les cercueils | ||
| 2012 | Pierre Borromée | L'hermine était pourpre | ||
| 2013 | Danielle Thiéry | The clous dans le coeur | ||
| 2014 | Hervé Jourdain | Le Sang de la trahison | ||
| 2015 | Maryse Rivière | Tromper la mort | ||
| 2016 | Lionel Olivier | Le crime était signé | ||
| 2017 | Pierre Pouchairet | Mortels trafics | ||
| 2018 | Sylvain Forge | Tension extreme | ||
¹ = In 1952 Georges-Jean Arnaud's victorious novel was published under the pseudonym Saint Gilles .
² = In 1953 Jacques Laurent's victorious novel was published under the pseudonym Cécil Saint-Laurent .
See also
Web links
- Official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historique du Prix du quai des Orfèvres. In: fayard.fr . Retrieved August 8, 2018 (French).