Awards: CWA Daggers
Colin Cotterill won this year's Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library prize, which is given to "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users." Nominated by U.K. libraries and readers' groups and judged by a panel of librarians, the winner earns "a prize of £1500 [US$2,465] to the author, plus £300 to a participating library's readers' group."
Author Fred Vargas and translator Sîan Reynolds won the CWA International Dagger award for The Chalk Circle Man. Sean Chercover won the CWA Short Story Dagger for "One Serving of Bad Luck," published in Killer Year, edited by Lee Child. The shortlists for the Gold, John Creasey (New Blood) and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers will be announced on October 21.
