Frances Fyfield was announced the winner of the £20,000 (A$39,000) Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Blood From Stone (Little, Brown) at an awards ceremony held in London on July 10.
The £5000 (A$9,800) International Duncan Lawrie Dagger was won by Dominique Manotti (Lorraine Connection, translated from the French by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz, Arcadia Books). The two translators split their prize of £1000 (A$2000).
The US novelist Sue Grafton was the winner of the 23rd Cartier Diamond Dagger ‘for sustained excellence in the genre of crime writing'.
Other awards announced on the night were:
• Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Tom Rob Smith for Child 44 (Simon & Schuster)
• Non-Fiction Dagger: Kester Aspden for Nationality: Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale (Jonathan Cape)
• John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: Matt Rees for The Bethlehem Murders (Atlantic Books)
• Dagger in the Library: Craig Russell
• Short Story Award: Martin Edwards for 'The Bookbinder's Apprentice'
• Debut Dagger: Amer Anwar for Western Fringes.
Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham and south-east Asia-based Australian author Colin Cotterill were among the authors shortlisted for the Ian Flemming Steel Dagger and Duncan Lawrie Dagger, respectively.
The various Dagger awards are presented by the Crime Writers Association (CWA), which has more than 450 members--all of whom ‘must have had at least one book published by a bona fide publisher'.
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