CWA Gold Dagger finalists Belinda Bauer, S J Bolton, George Pelecanos and Karen Campbell
The CWA Dagger Awards 2010
Finalists announced
August 9th 2010: The CWA, in partnership with Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, have today announced the finalists for the CWA Gold, Ian Fleming Steel, and John Creasey Daggers. The winners will be announced at The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010, which will take place on the evening of Friday 8th October at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. The Awards will be screened on ITV3 on Tuesday, November 12th.
The finalists are:
For the CWA Gold Dagger:
Blacklands, Belinda Bauer (Corgi)
Blood Harvest, S J Bolton (Bantam Press)
The Way Home, George Pelecanos (Orion)
Shadowplay, Karen Campbell (Hodder & Stoughton)
For the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
A Loyal Spy, Simon Conway (Hodder & Stoughton)
Innocent, Scott Turow (Mantle)
The Dying Light, Henry Porter (Orion)
The Gentlemen’s Hour, Don Winslow (Heinemann)
For the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger:
Acts of Violence, Ryan David Jahn (Macmillan New Writing)
Rupture, Simon Lelic (Picador)
The Holy Thief, William Ryan (Mantle )
The Pull of the Moon, Diane Janes (Robinson)
CWA Chairman Tom Harper said: “The CWA Dagger Awards have always enjoyed huge prestige among crime fiction fans and authors. The shortlists this year are incredibly strong, from exciting new talents to established masters, all working at the top of their game. It’s particularly gratifying to see two authors who've come through the CWA Debut Dagger for unpublished authors now shortlisted for these major awards.
“We’re thrilled with the way Cactus TV and ITV3 have embraced the Daggers to bring them to the widest possible audience. Together with the retail promotion, more people than ever are now getting the chance to discover the best crime writing in the UK.”
Photo credits (left to right): Belinda Bauer © Johnny Ring; S.J. Bolton © Michael Webberley; George Pelecanos © Ian Allen; Karen Campbell © Ian Watson
Johan Theorin, Ariana Franklin and Ruth Dudley Edwards win daggers
Friday July 23rd: The first set of winners of the 2010 CWA Daggers were announced this evening at a ceremony at the The Crown Hotel, Harrogate during the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
Johan Theorin has won the CWA International Dagger with The Darkest Room, Ariana Franklin the Dagger in the Library, and Ruth Dudley Edwards the Non-Fiction Dagger for Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families’ Pursuit of Justice.
The CWA Short Story Dagger was won by Robert Ferrigno with Can You Help Me Out Here, and the Debut Dagger for a previously unpublished author by Patrick Eden for the opening chapter of his story A Place of Dying.
CWA Chairman Tom Harper said: “The CWA Dagger Awards have always enjoyed huge prestige among crime fiction fans and authors. The shortlists this year are incredibly strong, from exciting new talents to established masters, all working at the top of their game. It’s particularly gratifying to see two authors who've come through the CWA Debut Dagger for unpublished authors now shortlisted for these major awards.
“We’re thrilled with the way Cactus TV and ITV3 have embraced the Daggers to bring them to the widest possible audience. Together with the retail promotion, more people than ever are now getting the chance to discover the best crime writing in the UK.”
The CWA Dagger Awards are the longest established literary awards in the UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement.
Publishers have submitted hundreds of books for the 2010 CWA Daggers, using a new online process introduced this year. To be eligible in this round, books must have had their first UK publication between 1 June 2009 and 31 May 2010.
The Ellis Peters Historical Award is made in the autumn for books published between September 16 2009 and September 15 2010. The closing date was August 1 2010.
Follow the links in the menu to the left for more information about the individual CWA Daggers.