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| Maxim Jakubowski (l.) and Walter Mosley, who received the Diamond Dagger at the CWA award dinner. (photo: Sage Mears) | |
The winners in a dozen categories of the Crime Writers' Association 2023 Dagger Awards were announced July 6 and can be seen here. Among them, the Gold Dagger went to George Dawes Green for The Kingdoms of Savannah and the Debut Dagger went to Jeff Marsick for Sideways.
Walter Mosley received the Diamond Dagger, which honors authors whose "crime-writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre. It is the most prestigious U.K. lifetime award awarded to a crime writer."
CWA chair Maxim Jakubowski said that Mosley's "voice has dominated the fiction scene for decades and I can think of no more deserving and ground-breaking an author to be given this ultimate accolade, for the so many things he has contributed to our genre but also to modern society."
Mosley said, "At the beginning of my writing career I was fortunate enough to be awarded the CWA's New Blood Dagger, otherwise called the John Creasey Award. That was the highest point of my experience as a first book author. Since then, I have picked up other honors along the way but the only award that comes near the Diamond Dagger is the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master nod. These two together make the apex of a career that I never expected."
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The 81st World Science Fiction Convention, hosted in Chengdu, China, has announced the finalists for the 2023 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Members of the Chengdu Worldcon will vote and winners will be presented on October 21 during the Chengdu Worldcon. See the full list of finalists here.