Six authors have been shortlisted
for the CWA
2015 Dagger in the Library award, sponsored by Dead Good Books.
The long listed authors were
nominated by readers as crime lovers everywhere were invited to vote online for
their three favourite authors. The most popular ten authors were whittled down
to five by a panel of judges including previous winner Sharon Bolton, CWA
Director Lucy Santos and a group of UK librarians.
Unlike most other literary
prizes, the Dagger in the Library honours an author’s body of work to date,
rather than a single title and an author must have published three books to be
eligible for the award. Previous winners include Sharon Bolton, Belinda Bauer,
Steve Mosby, Mo Hayder, Stuart MacBride and Alexander McCall Smith.
The short list, in alphabetical
order:
Ann Cleeves (Pan Macmillan)
Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
Christopher Fowler (Transworld)
Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
Peter James (Pan Macmillan)
Peter May (Quercus)
Chair
of the Judging panel Mobeena Khan commented; "Many
congratulations to all the shortlisted authors for this year’s “Dagger in the
Library” award. The judging panel were very impressed by the longlist of
authors and their work and enjoyed reacquainting themselves with some authors
and discovering some new ones. The list was wide ranging and covered a
gamut of different types of crime fiction and we are looking forward to
announcing the winner later on this month."
The winner will be announced at
the annual CWA Awards Dinner on the 30th June.
Online article: http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/dagger-library-shortlist-2015/
For more details please contact:
Lynsey Dalladay, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House UK at LDalladay@PenguinRandomHouse.co.uk
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