George Dawes Green The Kingdoms of Savannah (2023)
Most awards
Ruth Rendell (4)
Most nominations
Ruth Rendell, James Lee Burke, and Mick Herron (5)
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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 After the sponsorship was withdrawn, this award was not reinstated.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, James Lee Burke, and Mick Herron were nominated a record five times. 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.
The CWA GoldDagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year...
Horses television series. He won the Crime Writers' Association 2013 GoldDagger award for Dead Lions. Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England...
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Daniels in The Gentlemen’s Hour. The book was a 2010 finalist for the GoldDagger Award. In 2011, Winslow wrote another standalone, Satori, a prequel to...
1960) is an Australian crime fiction writer who has twice won the CWA GoldDagger award for best novel and twice been shortlisted for the Edgar Award for...
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thrillers of 2020 by The New York Times, was longlisted for the CWA GoldDagger Award and won the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery and Thrillers...
three times, and the Crime Writers' Association's CWA New Blood Dagger and GoldDagger. Cash was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and grew up in Gastonia...
1986 GoldDagger finalist), A Fatal Inversion (as Barbara Vine 1988 Macavity Award finalist for Best Novel), and Going Wrong (1990 GoldDagger finalist...
short-listed for UK based Crime Writers' Association 2013 Goldsboro GoldDagger award. In 2014 the book won the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth...
ornamental Dagger at an award ceremony held annually. Until 2005, translated crime novels were eligible to be nominated for the CWA GoldDagger. From 2006...
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for best thriller of the year. The award is sponsored...
celebrate its 50th anniversary. All books that had previously won the CWA GoldDagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year were eligible, and the purpose was to...
service from being dismantled by the government. In 1977, the book won the GoldDagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial...
Macavity Award: The Sculptress 1994 – The CWA GoldDagger Award: The Scold's Bridle 1995 – The CWA GoldDagger Award (shortlist): The Dark Room 1995 – The...
the eighth novel in the Inspector Morse series. The novel received the GoldDagger Award in 1989. In 1859, the body of a young woman was found floating...
Association GoldDagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best GoldDagger winner of...
thrillers. He received Authors' Club Best First Novel Award once and the GoldDagger Award three times. Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull in Yorkshire...
chosen by librarians Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, for a translated crime novel GoldDagger, for a crime novel McIlvanney Prize, for a Scottish...
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