Post with tag "award"
The Troubled Man nominated for Best Novel
The very last novel in the Wallander series, The Troubled Man, has been nominated for Best Novel in the 2012 Barry Awards. In 2009 another Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson, won the award for his novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Earlier winners of the Barry Award have been George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane and Denise Mina.
The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an american publication for crime fiction readers. … Read more
Mankell winner of Crimezone award
The latest book in the Wallander series, The Troubled Man, won both the Crimezone (translated) award 2010 and the Crimezone best thriller award 2010. 10 000 readers voted for the winners on the dutch crimewebpage www.crimezone.nl
Swedish Wallander wins British TV award
The new series of Swedish Wallander films starring Krister Henriksson has been awarded The International TV Dagger.
Wallander received the prestigious prize in competition with the American series The Good Wife and Damages during The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2010, broadcast yesterday evening at ITV3. Previous award winners include the much-appraised HBO series The Wire. The Crime Thriller Awards, in partnership with the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA), celebrate all crime and thriller fiction from film, TV and books.
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Ripper Prize to Henning Mankell
The winner was chosen by readers from more than 20 countries and by other authors at a big festival fro crime literature in Germany.
Accordning to the regulations of the prize it is to be given to an author who in particular has contributed to the development of the genre,
Author colleague Lisa Marklund, who nominated Henning Mankell for the award, states that Henning Mankell has taken crime writing to a compeltely new level. Other swedish … Read more