Sunday, October 04, 2009

Dashiell and George

The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers has announced that American author George Pelecanos is the winner of this year’s Hammett Prize--given for “literary excellence in the field of crime writing”--for his novel The Turnaround (Little, Brown; 2008). On Sunday evening, during a banquet at the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Trade Show in Baltimore, Pelecanos received a bronze trophy.

Other nominees for the 2009 Hammett Prize were Leading Lady, by Heywood Gould (Five Star); The Finder, by Colin Harrison, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); City of the Sun, by David Levien, (Doubleday); and South by South Bronx, by Abraham Rodriguez (Akashic).

(Hat tip to The Gumshoe Site.)

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