Thursday, October 05, 2023

Requesting Your Participation

It’s time to talk about the Crime Fiction Lover Awards again—or at least about the process that will lead to this year’s winners.

As it has done for the last two years running, the British Web site Crime Fiction Lover has begun this week to solicit public nominations for its 2023 prizes, in half a dozen categories:

Book of the Year
Best Debut
Best in Translation
Best Indie Novel
Best Author
Best [TV] Crime Show

In addition, the site explains, “this year we’re introducing a new award, the winner of which will be chosen by the editorial team. It’s called the Life of Crime Award and it will go to an author who we believe, over their career, has made an outstanding contribution to the genre. Since 2011, our contributors have reviewed more than 2,800 books and it’s their knowledge and good taste that will power this particular accolade.”

If you'd like to have a hand in selecting 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Awards recipients, simply click here and fill out the requisite form. As the site makes clear, “You’re not obliged to nominate in every category. If you haven’t read anything in a particular area, just move on to the next category. Our form lets you do that.” Keep in mind that the deadline for nominations is noon UK time on Monday, November 6. “After that, we’ll assemble shortlists for all the voting categories and open a new online form for you to vote for the winners.”

A list of last year’s prize winners can be found here.

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