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THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DAGGER SHORTLISTS 2003 For
immediate release. 8 October
The Crime Writers' Association announces its short lists for
its Daggers Awards 2003.
Winners (with one exception) will be announced and Daggers
presented at the CWA 50th Jubilee Dagger Awards Lunch at the
Brewery, Chiswell Street, London on Thursday 13
November.
(The exception is the winner of the CWA Ellis Peters
Historical Dagger, to be announced at the Savoy on the
evening of Wednesday 22 October.)
All books are listed alphabetically by order of Author's
name.
Gold & Silver Daggers for Fiction: Cash prizes £3,000
& £2,000
Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen - Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Morag Joss - Half Broken Things - Hodder & Stoughton
Robert Littell - The Company - Macmillan Carlo Lucarelli -
Almost Blue - Harvill Minette Walters - Fox Evil - Macmillan
Robert Wilson - The Blind Man Of Seville -
HarperCollins
Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction:
£2,000 Michael Bilton - Wicked Beyond Belief - HarperCollins
Erik Larson - Devil In The White City - Doubleday Chandak
Sengoopta - Imprint Of The Raj - Macmillan Donald Thomas -
Underworld At War - John Murray Peter Walsh - Gang War - Milo
Books Samantha Weinberg - Pointing From The Grave - Hamish
Hamilton
The CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger For first books by
previously unpublished writers Sponsored by BBC Audio
£1,000 Rod Duncan - Backlash - Pocketbooks William Landay -
Mission Flats - Bantam CJ Sansom - Dissolution -
Macmillan
The CWA Short Story Dagger
£1,500 Marion Arnott - Dollface Judith Cutler - Doctor's
Orders Kate Ellis - Les Inconnus Anthony Mann - Ester Gordon
Framlingham Jerry Sykes - Closer To The Flame
CWA Dagger In The Library Sponsored by Random House.
Nominated and judged by librarians. £1,500 Awarded to an
author for a body of work, not one single title. Stephen
Booth Christopher Brookmyre Anne Cleeves Julia Parsons Mike
Ripley
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger For thrillers. Sponsored by
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. £2,000 Lee Child - Persuader -
Transworld Roger Jon Ellroy - Candlemouth - Orion Dan
Fesperman - The Small Boat of Great Sorrows - Transworld
Bantam Lucretia Grindle - The Nightspinners - Pan Macmillan
Robert Littell - The Company - Pan Macmillan Henry Porter -
Empire State - Orion Gerald Seymour - Traitor's Kiss -
Transworld Bantam
The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Sponsored by the
estate of Ellis Peters and her publishers, Headline and
Little Brown. £3,000. The White Russian - Tom Bradby - Bantam
Press The Advocate - Marcello Fois - Harvill Press London
Dust - Lee Jackson - Arrow Blood on the Wood - Gillian
Linscott - Virago Dissolution - C.J. Sansom - Macmillan The
Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer- Century The American Boy -
Andrew Taylor - Harper Collins
The CWA Debut Dagger
For unpublished books, awarded on the basis of one chapter
and a synopsis. Set up to encourage new writers. Sponsored by
Orion. £250
Duncan Brewer -- The Woman From Smyrna Sandra Charan -- The
Third Room Margaret Dumas -- Speak Now Kirsty Evans -- The
Cuckoo Avriel Geneson -- Speak No Evil Judy Larkin -- Without
Apparent Reason Peter Wynn Norris -- The Long Train Bryon
Quertermous -- Lunchbox Hero Chris Rose - Driftlines Melissa
Kate Rowberry -- The Mouths of Men Maria E. Schneider -- Soul
of the Desert Michael Shenton -- The Amazing GM Dog Betty
Jacque -- Days of Future Past Otis Twelve -- On the
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Notes to media. For background info on the Crime Writers'
Association and the Dagger Awards please see our website
www.thecwa.co.uk
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