CWA Dagger Awards 2010 Shortlists
Some of the many shortlists for the Daggers, the annual prizes dished out by the Crime Writers’ Assocation, were announced yesterday. Two of the main awards are the International Dagger (for fiction that’s been translated into English from its original language) and Gold Dagger for non-fiction.
Click on the titles below to see what the critics had to say about the nominees:
CWA SHORTLISTS
International Dagger
Badfellas by Tonino Benacquista, translated by Emily Read (Bitter Lemon)
August Heat by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Picador)
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb (Harvill Secker)
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland (MacLehose)
Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer, translated by K. L. Seegers (Hodder and Stoughton)
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin, translated by Marlaine Delargy (Black Swan)
Gold Dagger for Non-fiction
Major Farran’s Hat by David Cesarani (Heinemann)
Killing Time by David R. Dow (Heinemann)
Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Harvill Secker)
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster)
Defending the Guilty by Alex McBride (Viking)
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi (Virgin)
To see Marcel Berlins’ favourites, and for more information about the “bewildering” awards, click here
For all the shortlists, including the Dagger in the Library (for an exceptional body of work) visit the CWA website
