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09/02/2006: "Dagger Awards"
In response to Yvonne, below, after a shockingly long time: most awards restrict entry like this, the Booker, the Whitbread the Orange in the UK; the Edgars in the US.
Any book that is published for the first time in the UK is eligible for the Dagger Awards. For the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, books must be written originally in English. Translations are entered for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. If we opened the entry up and invited books that were not (yet) published in the UK, the judges would be overwhelmed with entries.
One day, it would be good to have an international Dagger for books published outside the UK - but we'd need a sponsor to fund it.
Danuta Reah on Saturday, September 2nd 2006 @ 03:30 PM GMT [link]