Gold Dagger Award

Le Gold Dagger Award est un prix littéraire britannique décerné annuellement par le Crime Writers' Association (Association des écrivains de romans policiers), au meilleur roman policier de l'année.

Créé en 1955 sous le titre Crossed Red Herring Award, il devient le Gold Dagger Award en 1960, puis le Macallan Gold Dagger de 1995 à 2002 lorsque Macallan en devient le sponsor.

De 1969 à 2005, un second prix, le Silver Dagger Award (prix du poignard d'argent) est décerné au candidat placé second. Cette récompense est supprimée en 2006, lorsqu'un nouveau sponsor, la banque Duncan Lawrie, reprend le flambeau. Le prix devient alors le Duncan Lawrie Dagger et il est doté d'une somme de £20.000, ce qui en fait le prix du roman policier le plus richement doté du monde.

Lauréats

2010

• Gold Dagger: Belinda Bauer, Blacklands
  • S.J. Bolton, Blood Harvest
  • Karen Campbell, Shadowplay
  • George Pelecanos, The Way Home

2009

• Gold Dagger: William Brodrick, A Whispered Name
  • Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
  • Mark Billingham, In the Dark
  • Lawrence Block, Hit and Run
  • M.R. Hall, The Coroner
  • Gene Kerrigan, Dark Times in the City

2008

• Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Frances Fyfield, Blood From Stone
  • James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown
  • Colin Cotterill, Coroner's Lunch
  • Steve Hamilton, Night Work
  • Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know
  • RN Morris, A Vengeful Longing

2007

• Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Peter Temple, The Broken Shore
  • Giles Blunt, The Fields of Grief
  • James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending
  • Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
  • Craig Russell, Brother Grimm
  • C.J. Sansom, Sovereign

2006 (sous sa nouvelle appellation)

• Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Ann Cleeves, Raven Black
  • Simon Beckett, The Chemistry of Death
  • Thomas H. Cook, Red Leaves
  • Frances Fyfield, Safer Than Houses
  • Bill James, Wolves of Memory
  • Laura Wilson, A Thousand Lies

2005

• Gold Dagger: Arnaldur Indridason, La Femme en vert
• Silver Dagger: Barbara Nadel, Deadly Web
  • Karin Fossum, Calling Out For You
  • Friedrich Glauser, In Matto's Realm
  • Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
  • Fred Vargas, Seeking Whom He May Devour

2004

• Gold Dagger: Sara Paretsky, Blacklist
• Silver Dagger: John Harvey, Flesh and Blood
  • Mo Hayder, Tokyo
  • Val McDermid, The Torment of Others
  • James W Nichol, Midnight Cab
  • Laura Wilson, The Lover

2003

• Gold Dagger: Minette Walters, Fox Evil
• Silver Dagger: Morag Joss, Half Broken Things
  • Boris Akunin, The Winter Queen
  • Robert Littell, The Company
  • Carlo Lucarelli, Almost Blue
  • Robert Wilson, The Blind Man Of Seville

2002

• Gold Dagger: Jose Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
• Silver Dagger: James Crumley, The Final Country
  • Mark Billingham, Scaredy Cat
  • James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce
  • Michael Connelly, City of Bones
  • Minette Walters, Acid Row

2001

• Gold Dagger: Henning Mankell, Sidetracked
• Silver Dagger: Giles Blunt, Forty Words For Sorrow
  • Stephen Booth, Dancing with the Virgins
  • Denise Danks, Baby Love
  • George Pelecanos, Right as Rain
  • Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest

2000

• Gold Dagger: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
• Silver Dagger: Donna Leon, Friends In High Places
  • James Lee Burke, Purple Cane Road
  • Elliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra
  • Lucy Wadham, Lost
  • Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Bay

1999

• Gold Dagger: Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon
• Silver Dagger: Adrian Mathews, Vienna Blood
  • Val McDermid, A Place of Execution
  • Ian Rankin, Dead Souls
  • Michael Connelly, Angels Flight
  • Denise Danks, Phreak
  • Frances Fyfield, Staring at the Light

1998

• Gold Dagger: James Lee Burke, Sunset Limited
• Silver Dagger: Nicholas Blincoe, Manchester Slingback
  • Michael Dibdin, A Long Finish
  • Geoffrey Archer, Fire Hawk
  • Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height
  • George Pelecanos, King Suckerman

1997

• Gold Dagger: Ian Rankin, Black and Blue
• Silver Dagger: Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly
  • Frank Lean, The Reluctant Investigator

1996

• Gold Dagger: Ben Elton, Popcorn
• Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, Bloodhounds
  • Jessica Mann, A Private enquiry

1995

• Gold Dagger: Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing
• Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, The Summons
  • Elizabeth Ironside, A Very private Enterprise
  • Minette Walters, The Dark Room

1994

• Gold Dagger: Minette Walters, The Scold's Bridle
• Silver Dagger: Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
  • Val McDermid, Crack Down
  • Sara Paretsky, Tunnel Vision

1993

• Gold Dagger: Patricia Cornwell, Cruel and Unusual
• Silver Dagger: Sarah Dunant, Fatlands
  • Robert Richards, The Hand of Strange Children
  • Janet Neele, Death Among the Dons

1992

• Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods
• Silver Dagger: Liza Cody, Bucket Nut

1991

• Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine, King Solomon's Carpet
• Silver Dagger: Frances Fyfield, Deep Sleep
  • Janet Neele, Death of a Partner
  • Michael Dibdin, Dirty Tricks

1990

• Gold Dagger: Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence
• Silver Dagger: Mike Philips, The Late Candidate
  • John Harvey, Rough Treatment

1989

• Gold Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Wench is Dead
• Silver Dagger: Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run

1988

• Gold Dagger: Michael Dibdin, Ratking
• Silver Dagger: Sara Paretsky, Toxic Shock

1987

• Gold Dagger: Barbara Vine, A Fatal Inversion
• Silver Dagger: Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent
  • Liza Cody, Under Contract

1986

• Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh
• Silver Dagger: P. D. James, A Taste for Death

1985

• Gold Dagger: Paula Gosling, Monkey Puzzle
• Silver Dagger: Dorothy Simpson, Last Seen Alive
  • Andrew Taylor, Our Father's Lies
  • Jill Paton Walsh, A Piece of Justice

1984

• Gold Dagger: B.M. Gill, The Twelfth Juror
• Silver Dagger: Ruth Rendell, The Tree of Hands

1983

• Gold Dagger: John Hutton, Accidental Crimes
• Silver Dagger: William McInnery, The Papers of Tony Vietch

1982

• Gold Dagger: Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew
• Silver Dagger: S.T. Haymon, Ritual Murder

1981

• Gold Dagger: Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park
• Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho

1980

• Gold Dagger: H.R.F. Keating, The Murder of the Maharaja
• Silver Dagger: Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood

1979

• Gold Dagger: Dick Francis, Whip Hand
• Silver Dagger: Colin Dexter, Service of All the Dead

1978

• Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, The Chelsea Murders
• Silver Dagger: Peter Lovesey, Waxwork

1977

• Gold Dagger: John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
• Silver Dagger: William McIlvanney, Laidlaw

1976

• Gold Dagger: Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View
• Silver Dagger: James McClure, Rogue Eagle

1975

• Gold Dagger: Nicholas Meyer, The Seven per cent Solution
• Silver Dagger: P.D. James, The Black Tower

1974

• Gold Dagger: Anthony Price,l Other Paths to Glory
• Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford, The Grosvenor Square Goodbye

1973

• Gold Dagger: Robert Littell, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
• Silver Dagger: Gwendoline Butler, A Coffin for Pandora

1972

• Gold Dagger: Eric Ambler, The Levanter
• Silver Dagger: Victor Canning, The Rainbird Pattern

1971

• Gold Dagger: James McClure, The Steam Pig
• Silver Dagger: P.D. James, Shroud for A Nightingale

1970

• Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming, Young Man I Think You're Dying
• Silver Dagger: Anthony Price, The Labyrinth Makers

1969

• Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson, A Pride of Heroes
• Silver Dagger: Francis Clifford, Another Way of Dying

1968

• Gold Dagger: Peter Dickinson, Skin Deep

1967

• Gold Dagger: Emma Lathen, Murder Against the Grain

1966

• Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, A Long way to Shiloh

1965

• Gold Dagger: Ross Macdonald, The Far Side of the Dollar

1964

• Gold Dagger: H.R.F. Keating, The Perfect Murder

1963

• Gold Dagger: John le Carré, L'Espion qui venait du froid

1962

• Gold Dagger: Joan Fleming, When I Grow Rich

1961

• Gold Dagger: Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill

1960

• Gold Dagger: Lionel Davidson, The Night of Wenceslas

1959

• Crossed Red Herring Award: Eric Ambler, Passage of Arms

1958

• Crossed Red Herring Award: Margot Bennet, Someone from the Past

1957

• Crossed Red Herring Award: Julian Symons, The Colour of Murder

1956

• Crossed Red Herring Award: Edward Grierson, The Second Man

1955

• Crossed Red Herring Award: Winston Graham, The Little Walls

Liens externes

• Crime Writers' Association list