Edie Parsons won the inaugural Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award, established by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators to honor "authors over the age of fifty who have not been traditionally published in the children's literature field," for her book Mercury Sea, a middle grade fantasy novel about the poetry of historical alchemy.
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Several Dagger awards were announced Monday at the Crime Writers' Association's annual dinner in London. Longlists for the CWA Gold, Steel and John Creasey Daggers were also released. Shortlists will be revealed later this summer, with eventual winners named as part of the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards in the autumn. This year's CWA Dagger winners to date are:
Diamond Dagger: Lee Child.
Nonfiction Dagger: Midnight in Peking by Paul French
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger: The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor
Dagger in the Library: Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
International Dagger (co-winners): Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds; and Alex by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne.
Short Story Dagger: "Come Away with Me" by Stella Duffy (The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, Volume 10)
Debut Dagger: Finn Clarke
