Gold Dagger
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The CWA Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year.
From 1955 to 1959, the organization named their top honor as the Crossed Red Herring Award. From 1995 to 2002 the award acquired sponsorship from Macallan and was known as the Macallan Gold Dagger.
In 2006, because of new sponsorship from the Duncan Lawrie Bank, the award was officially renamed as the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, and gained a prize fund of £20,000. It was the biggest crime-fiction award in the world in monetary terms. In 2008, Duncan Lawrie Bank withdrew its sponsorship of the awards. As a result, the top prize is again called the Gold Dagger without a monetary award.
From 1969 to 2005, a Silver Dagger was awarded to the runner-up. When Duncan Lawrie acquired sponsorship, this award was dropped. After the sponsorship was withdrawn, this award was not reinstated.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 57 writers. Ruth Rendell has won the award a record four times, including two awards for the novels A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine; this makes her the only writer who has won the award under different names. Rendell and James Lee Burke were nominated a record five times, and they were surpassed only by Mick Herron with six. Abir Mukherjee is the most nominated author in this category without a single win (4 nominations).
The Crime Writers' Association also awards the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and several other "Dagger" awards.
Winners
Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:
1950s
| Year | Author | Work |
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| 1955 | Winston Graham Template:Double dagger | The Little Walls |
| Lee Howard | Blind Date | |
| Ngaio Marsh | Scales of Justice | |
| Margot Bennett | The Man Who Didn't Fly | |
| 1956 | Edward Grierson Template:Double dagger | The Second Man |
| Sarah Gainham | Time Right Deadly | |
| Arthur Upfield | Man of Two Tribes | |
| J. J. Marric | Gideon's Week | |
| 1957 | Julian Symons Template:Double dagger | The Colour of Murder |
| Ngaio Marsh | Off with His Head | |
| George Milner | Your Money or Your Life | |
| Douglas Rutherford | The Long Echo | |
| 1958 | Margot Bennett Template:Double dagger | Someone from the Past |
| Margery Allingham | Hide My Eyes | |
| James Byrom | Or Be He Dead | |
| John Sherwood | Undiplomatic Exit | |
| 1959 | Eric Ambler Template:Double dagger | Passage of Arms |
| James Mitchell | A Way Back | |
| Menna Gallie | Strike for a Kingdom | |
1960s
1970s
| Year | Author | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Joan Fleming Template:Double dagger | Young Man I Think You're Dying |
| Anthony Price | The Labyrinth Makers | |
| 1971 | James H. McClure Template:Double dagger | The Steam Pig |
| P. D. James | Shroud for a Nightingale | |
| 1972 | Eric Ambler Template:Double dagger | The Levanter |
| Victor Canning | The Rainbird Pattern | |
| 1973 | Robert Littell Template:Double dagger | The Defection of A.J. Lewinter |
| Gwendoline Butler | A Coffin for Pandora | |
| 1974 | Anthony Price Template:Double dagger | Other Paths to Glory |
| Francis Clifford | The Grosvenor Square Goodbye | |
| 1975 | Nicholas Meyer Template:Double dagger | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution |
| P. D. James | The Black Tower | |
| 1976 | Ruth Rendell Template:Double dagger | A Demon in My View |
| James H. McClure | Rogue Eagle | |
| 1977 | John le Carré Template:Double dagger | The Honourable Schoolboy |
| William McIlvanney | Laidlaw | |
| 1978 | Lionel Davidson Template:Double dagger | The Chelsea Murders |
| Peter Lovesey | Waxwork | |
| 1979 | Dick Francis Template:Double dagger | Whip Hand |
| Colin Dexter | Service of All the Dead |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Author | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Michael Robotham Template:Double dagger | Good Girl Bad Girl |
| Claire Askew | What You Pay For | |
| Lou Berney | November Road | |
| John Fairfax | Forced Confessions | |
| Mick Herron | Joe Country | |
| Abir Mukherjee | Death in the East | |
| 2021 | Chris Whitaker Template:Double dagger | We Begin at the End |
| S. A. Cosby | Blacktop Wasteland | |
| Ben Creed | City of Ghosts | |
| Nicci French | House of Correction | |
| Robert Galbraith | Troubled Blood | |
| Elly Griffiths | The Postscript Murders | |
| Thomas Mullen | Midnight Atlanta | |
| 2022 | Ray Celestin Template:Double dagger | Sunset Swing |
| Jacqueline Bublitz | Before You Knew My Name | |
| S. A. Cosby | Razorblade Tears | |
| John Hart | The Unwilling | |
| Abir Mukherjee | The Shadows of Men | |
| William Shaw | The Trawlerman | |
| 2023[8] | George Dawes Green Template:Double dagger | The Kingdoms of Savannah |
| Vaseem Khan | The Lost Man of Bombay | |
| Simon Mason | A Killing in November | |
| Anna Mazzola | The Clockwork Girl | |
| WC Ryan | The Winter Guest | |
| Simon Van der Velde | The Silent Brother | |
| 2024[9][10] | Una Mannion Template:Double dagger | Tell Me What I Am |
| Template:Sortname | Black River | |
| Template:Sortname | Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | |
| Template:Sortname | Over My Dead Body | |
| Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | |
| Template:Sortname | Small Mercies |
Multiple awards and nominations
Gold Dagger
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Silver Dagger
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The following individuals received two or more Silver Dagger awards:
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Gold and Silver Daggers wins
The following individuals received both Gold and Silver Dagger awards:
Records
- Ngaio Marsh was the first writer to receive more than one nomination.
- Ross Macdonald was the first writer to receive two consecutive nominations
- Peter Dickinson is the first writer to receive two Gold Daggers. He and Ruth Rendell are the only ones to win in this category two years in a row.
- Joan Fleming is the first female to win two awards.
- Anthony Price is the first writer to win both the Gold and Silver Daggers.
- P.D. James and Peter Lovesey win a record three Silver Daggers. James also won the most Silver Daggers as the author who never won a Gold Dagger.
- Colin Dexter is the only writer to win both two Silver and two Gold Daggers.
- Ruth Rendell has won the Gold Dagger a record four times. She is also the only one to win the award under different names.
- Mick Herron have the most nominations with 6.
- Mick Herron has the most consecutive nominations (3).
- Abir Mukherjee has the most nominations without a win (4).
References
External links
- ↑ Best Foreign
- ↑ Best British
- ↑ Best Foreign
- ↑ Best British
- ↑ Best Foreign
- ↑ Silver Dagger
- ↑ Best Foreign
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