The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout. The Nero Award is presented annually at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City.
Year | Title | Author | Reference |
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1979 | The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | Lawrence Block | |
1980 | Burn This | Helen McCloy | |
1981 | Death in a Tenured Position | Amanda Cross | |
1982 | Past, Present and Murder | Hugh Pentecost | |
1983 | The Anodyne Necklace | Martha Grimes | [1] |
1984 | Emily Dickinson is Dead | Jane Langton | |
1985 | Sleeping Dog | Dick Lochte | |
1986 | Murder in E Minor | Robert Goldsborough | |
1987 | The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond | Charlotte MacLeod | |
1988 1989 1990 | no award presented | ||
1991 | Coyote Waits | Tony Hillerman | [2] |
1992 | A Scandal in Belgravia | Robert Barnard | |
1993 | Booked to Die | John Dunning | |
1994 | Old Scores | Aaron Elkins | [2] |
1995 | She Walks These Hills | Sharyn McCrumb | |
1996 | A Monstrous Regiment of Women | Laurie R. King | [2] |
1997 | The Poet | Michael Connelly | [2] |
1998 | Sacred | Dennis Lehane | [2] |
1999 | The Bone Collector | Jeffery Deaver | |
2000 | Coyote Revenge | Fred Harris | |
2001 | Sugar House | Laura Lippman | |
2002 | The Deadhouse | Linda Fairstein | |
2003 | Winter and Night | S. J. Rozan | |
2004 | Fear Itself | Walter Mosley | [2] |
2005 | The Enemy | Lee Child | [3] |
2006 | Vanish | Tess Gerritsen | [2] |
2007 | All Mortal Flesh | Julia Spencer-Fleming | |
2008 | Anatomy of Fear | Jonathan Santlofer | |
2009 | The Tenth Case | Joseph Teller | [4] |
2010 | Faces of the Gone | Brad Parks | [5] |
2011 | Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny | [6] [7] |
2012 | Though Not Dead | Dana Stabenow | [8] [9] |
2013 | Dead Anyway | Chris Knopf | [10] |
2014 | Murder as a Fine Art | David Morrell | [11] |
2015 | Peter Pan Must Die | John Verdon | [12] |
2016 | Night Life | David C. Taylor | [13] |
2017 | With Six You Get Wally | Al Lamanda | [14] |
2018 | August Snow | Stephen Mack Jones | [15] |
2019 | Down the River unto the Sea | Walter Mosley | [16] |
2020 | One Good Deed | David Baldacci | [17] |
2021 | Fortune Favors the Dead | Stephen Spotswood | [18] |
2022 | Tower of Babel | Michael Sears | [19] |
Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels, and 41 novellas and short stories, between 1934 and 1975.
Laurie R. King is an American author best known for her detective fiction.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002). The prize is five million SEK, making it the richest award in children's literature and one of the richest literary prizes in the world. The annual cost of 10 million SEK is financed with tax money.
The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to a living writer of fantasy or science fiction. It was first awarded in 1975, to Robert Heinlein, and was renamed in 2002 for Damon Knight, the Association's founder, who had died that year.
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Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the United States-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works that celebrate or explore LGBT themes. The awards are presented annually for books published in the previous year. The Lambda Literary Foundation states that its mission is "to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians—the whole literary community."
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The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."
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The Lambda Literary Award for Mystery is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a mystery novel by or about people in the LGBT community. Prior to 2021, the award was separated into separate categories for Gay and Lesbian Mystery.
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel was established in 1954. Only hardcover novels written by a published American author are eligible. Paperback original novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. Debut novels by American novels are eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel.
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