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.)
Sunday, October 04, 2009
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