A Long Night in Paris
Dov Alfon
Translated by: Daniella Zamir
Maclehose Press
CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
This year's winner
A Long Night in Paris
Dov Alfon
Translated by: Daniella Zamir
Maclehose Press
A rampaging and increasingly murderous ride through twenty-four hours in Paris, and the surprise book of the year that all judges recognised as something very special. Seldom have we seen twists and turns that are so unexpected. Or so welcome.
This award is for crime novels (defined by the broadest definition including thrillers, suspense novels and spy fiction) as long as the book was not originally written in English and has been translated into English for UK publication during the Judging Period. Up until 2019 this award was known as The CWA International Dagger.
Shortlist
Weeping Waters
Karin Brynard
Translated by: Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon
World Noir
The Cold Summer
Gianrico Carofiglio
Translated by: Howard Curtis
Bitter Lemon Press
Newcomer
Keigo Higashino
Translated by: Giles Murray
Little, Brown
The Root of Evil
Håkan Nesser
Translated by: Sarah Death
Mantle
The Forger
Cay Rademacher
Translated by: Peter Millar
Arcadia Books
The judges
Maxim Jakubowski (Chair)
Maxim worked for many years in book publishing as an editor and launched the Murder One Bookshop, which he owned and ran for over 20 years. He now writes, edits and translates full-time in London. The series The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, which he edits and now at volume 13, has printed many winners of the CWA Short Story Dagger. His website is maximjakubowski.co.uk.
Ngaire Mason-Wenn Wallace
Ngaire is an internationally published author with a background in Recruitment Consulting and Human Resources. She holds a BA in English and History from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has also studied psychology and linguistics. Her keen interest in the human mind has informed her career in the corporate world, her writing, and her love of crime fiction.
Anne Cater
Anne has been an avid reader for a long as she can remember, loves to discuss books, and shout about the ones that she loves. “Eight years ago I started my blog Random Things Through My Letterbox.” She reviews Commercial Women’s Fiction novels for The Daily Express books on Friday monthly feature.
Woody Haut
Woody is the author of two novels Cry For a Nickel, Die For a Dime and Days of Smoke, as well as Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War, Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction, and Heartbreak and Vine: the Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood. He currently writes for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Crime. He blogs on all things noir at woodyhaut.blogspot.com.
Rhys Hughes
Rhys has lived in many countries. He currently shares his time between Britain and Kenya. His first book, Worming the Harpy, was published in 1995, and since that time he had published more than forty other books, nine hundred short stories, and many articles. His work has been translated into ten languages.
Submission for April 01, 2019 to March 31, 2020
| Title | Author | Translated by | Publisher |
| The Other End of the Line | Andrea Camilleri | Stephen Sartarelli | Mantle |
| The Catholic School | Edoardo Albinati | Antony Shugaar | Picador |
| The Reunion | Guillaume Musso | Frank Wynne | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Not Saying Goodbye | Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Like Flies From Afar | K. Ferrari | Adrian Nathan West | Canongate Books |
| The Godmother | Hannelore Cayre | Stephanie Smee | Old Street Publishing |
| The Fatherland Files | Volker Kutscher | Niall Sellar | Sandstone Press |
| Summer of Reckoning | Marion Brunet | Katherine Gregor | Bitter Lemon Press |
| The Aosawa Murders | Riku Onda | Alison Watts | Bitter Lemon Press |
| The Fragility of Bodies | Sergio Olguin | Miranda France | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Grab A Snake By The Tail | Leonardo Padura | Peter Bush | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Like Flies From Afar | K. Ferrari | Adrian Nathan West | Canongate Books |
| Sanctury | Luca D’Andrea | Katherine Gregor | MacLehose Press |
| The Girl Who Lived Twice | David Lagercantz | George Goulding | MacLehose Press |
| The Dance of Death | Olivier Bottini | Jamie Bulloch | MacLehose Press |
| The Carrier | Mattias Berg | George Goulding | MacLehose Press |
| Three Hours | Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström | Elizabeth Clarke Wessel | riverrun |
| The Silent War | Andrea Norman | Ian Giles | riverrun |
| Victim 2117 | Jusi Adler-Olsen | Stefanie Bierwerth | Quercus Fiction |
| Death at Saint-Chartier | Ivo Fornesa | Allen Young | Allison & Busby |
| November | Jorge Galan | Jason Wilson | Constable |
| The Man of the Labyrinth | Donato Carrisi | Katherine Gregor | Little, Brown |
| Kult | Stefan Malmström | Suzanne Martin Cheadle | Silvertail Books |
| A Grave for Two | Anne Holt | Anne Bruce | Corvus / Atlantic Books |
| Die for Me | Jesper Stein | Charlotte Barslund | Mirror Books |