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French literary prize
The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (or the Police Literature Grand Prize) is a French
literary prize founded in 1948 by author and literary critic Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe. It is the most prestigious award for
crime and detective fiction in
France . Two prizes are awarded annually to the best French novel and to the best international crime novel published in that year.
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French Prize
1940s
1948 – Le Cinquième procédé by
Léo Malet
1949 – La Parole est au mort by Odette Sorensen (
fr )
1950s
1950 – Jeux pour mourir by Géo-Charles Véran (
fr )
1951 – Fumées sans feu by Jacques Decrest et Germaine Decrest (
fr )
1952 – Passons la monnaie by André Piljean (
fr )
1953 – Opération Odyssée by
Jean-Pierre Conty (
fr )
1954 – La Beauté qui meurt by
François Brigneau
1955 – Assassin mon frère by Gilles-Maurice Dumoulin (
fr )
1956 – Pleins feux sur Sylvie by
Michel Lebrun (
fr ) and Les Petites mains de la Justice by Guy Venayre (
fr )
1957 – Le Bourreau pleure by
Frédéric Dard
1958 – On n'enterre pas le dimanche by Fred Kassak (
fr )
1959 – Deuil en rouge by
Paul Gerrard
1960s
1970s
1980s
1980 – Le Crime d'Antoine by Dominique Roulet (
fr )
1981 – Reflets changeants sur mare de sang, L'Unijambiste de la côte 284, and Aime le maudit by
Pierre Siniac
1982 – L'Audience solennelle by Jean-Pierre Cabannes (
fr )
1983 – Collabo song by Jean Mazarin (
fr )
1984 – Sur la terre comme au ciel by
René Belletto
1985 – Meurtres pour mémoire by
Didier Daeninckx
1986 – La queue du scorpion by Christian Gernigon (
fr )
1986 – N'oubliez pas l'artiste by Gérard Delteil (
fr )
1987 – Trois morts au soleil by
Jacques Sadoul
1988 – Aix abrupto by Jean-Paul Demure (
fr )
1989 – Un gros besoin d'amour by Tito Topin (
fr )
1990s
1990 – Billard à l'étage by
Michel Quint
1991 – Hôpital souterrain by Hervé Jaouen (
fr )
1992 – La Commedia des ratés by
Tonino Benacquista
1993 – Boulevard des ombres by Paul Couturiau (
fr )
1994 – Tiré à part by Jean-Jacques Fiechter (
fr )
1995 – La Main morte by Philippe Huet (
fr )
1996 – Ambernave by Jean-Hugues Oppel (
fr )
1997 – La Mort des bois by
Brigitte Aubert
1998 – Sans homicide fixe by Serge Gardebled (
fr )
1999 – La Paresse de Dieu by Laurent Bénégui (
fr )
2000s
2000 – Du bruit sous le silence by Pascal Dessaint (
fr )
2001 – Chasseurs de têtes by Michel Crespy (
fr )
2002 – Les Brouillards de la Butte by Patrick Pécherot (
fr )
2003 – L'Ivresse des dieux by Laurent Martin (
fr )
2004 – Double peine by Virginie Brac (
fr )
2004 – Les Silences de Dieu by
Gilbert Sinoue
2005 – Le Testament de Dieu by Philippe Le Roy (
fr )
2006 – La Colère des enfants déchus by Catherine Fradier (
fr )
2007 – Citoyens clandestins by DOA (
fr )
2008 – Zulu by Caryl Férey (
fr )
2009 – Les Cœurs déchiquetés by Hervé Le Corre (
fr )
2010s
International Prize
1940s
1950s
1950 – After Midnight by
Martha Albrand (US, 1948)
1951 – The Red Right Hand by
Joel Townsley Rogers (US, 1945)
1952 – Follow as the Night by
Patricia McGerr (US, 1951)
1953 – The End is Known by Geoffrey Holiday Hall (US, 1949)
1953 – Horns for the Devil by Louis Malley (US, 1951)
1954 – The Body in Grant's Tomb (short story) by
Cornell Woolrich (US, 1943)
1955 – Death in Captivity by
Michael Gilbert (UK, 1952)
1956 – The Desperate Hours by
Joseph Hayes (US, 1954)
1956 – Nothing in Her Way by
Charles Williams (US, 1953)
1957 –
The Talented Mr. Ripley by
Patricia Highsmith (US, 1955)
1958 –
The Five Cornered Square by
Chester Himes (US, 1956)
1959 – Orders to Kill by Donald Downes (US, 1958)
1960s
1960 –
The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling (UK, 1955)
1961 – no prize awarded
1962 – The Green Stone by
Suzanne Blanc (US, 1961)
1963 – The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith (UK, 1961)
1964 – A Key to the Suite by
John D. MacDonald (US, 1963)
1965 – Gun before Butter by
Nicolas Freeling (UK, 1963)
1966 – The Berlin Memorandum by
Adam Hall (UK, 1965)
1967 – I Start Counting by
Audrey Erskine Lindop (UK, 1966)
1968 –
Traitors to All (Traditori di tutti ) by
Giorgio Scerbanenco (Italy, 1966)
1969 –
The Daughter of Time by
Josephine Tey (UK, 1951)
1969 –
Fire, Burn! by
John Dickson Carr (US, 1957)
1970s
1970 – The Flaw (To Lathos ) by Antonis Samarakis (Greece, 1965)
1971 – Hit and Run, Run, Run (Hændeligt uheld ) by
Anders Bodelsen (Denmark, 1968)
1971 – The Ledger by
Dorothy Uhnak (US, 1970)
1972 – The Children Are Watching by
Laird Koenig & Peter L. Dixon (US, 1970)
1973 – Millie by
E. V. Cunningham (US, 1973)
1974 – Mirror, Mirror on the Wall by
Stanley Ellin (US, 1972)
1975 – The Dark Number by
Edward Boyd & Roger Parkes (UK, 1973)
1976 – Doctor Frigo by
Eric Ambler (UK, 1974)
1977 – City of the Death by
Herbert Lieberman (US, 1976)
1978 – And on the Eighth Day by
Ellery Queen (US, 1964)
1979 –
The Chain of Chance (Katar ) by
Stanisław Lem (Poland, 1975)
1980s
1980 –
A Stranger is Watching by
Mary Higgins Clark (US, 1977)
1981 –
The South Seas by
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Spain, 1979)
1982 – Party of the Year by
John Crosby (US, 1982)
1983 –
No Comebacks by
Frederick Forsyth (UK, 1982)
1984 – The Maine Massacre by
Janwillem Van de Wetering (US, 1979)
1985 – Swing, Swing Together by
Peter Lovesey (UK, 1976)
1986 – City Primeval by
Elmore Leonard (US, 1980)
1987 –
Dance Hall of the Dead by
Tony Hillerman (US, 1974)
1988 –
A Taste for Death by
P. D. James (UK, 1986)
1988 –
Strega by
Andrew Vachss (US, 1987)
1989 – Snowbound by
Bill Pronzini (US, 1974)
1990s
1990 –
A Great Deliverance by
Elizabeth George (US, 1988)
1991 –
The Silence of the Lambs by
Thomas Harris (US, 1988)
1992 – Black Cherry Blues by
James Lee Burke (US, 1989)
1993 –
The Flanders Panel by
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Spain, 1990)
1994 –
Cabal by
Michael Dibdin (UK, 1992)
1995 – Degree of Guilt by
Richard North Patterson (US, 1993)
1996 –
The Alienist by
Caleb Carr (US, 1994)
1997 – Imperfect Strangers by
Stuart Woods (US, 1995)
1998 – Shadow Play by
Frances Fyfield (UK, 1993)
1999 –
Blood Work by
Michael Connelly (US, 1998)
2000s
2000 – River of Darkness by
Rennie Airth (South Africa, 1999)
2001 –
In a Dry Season by
Peter Robinson (Canada, 1999)
2002 – One Foot in the Grave by
Peter Dickinson (UK, 1979)
2003 – Dead before Dying by
Deon Meyer (South Africa, 1999)
2004 – The Analyst by
John Katzenbach (US, 2002)
2005 –
Dead Souls by
Ian Rankin (UK, 1999)
2006 – The Librarian by
Larry Beinhart (US, 2004)
2007 –
Voices by
Arnaldur Indriðason (Röddin , Iceland, 2003)
2008 –
The Ice Princess by
Camilla Läckberg (Isprinsessan , Sweden, 2002)
2009 – Priest by
Ken Bruen (UK, 2006)
2010s
2010 – Twilight by
William Gay (
US , 2006)
2011 – Limassol by
Yishai Sarid (
Israel , 2009)
2012 – The Devil All The Time by
Donald Ray Pollock (
US , 2011)
2013 – The Killer Is Dying by
James Sallis (
US , 2011)
2014 –
The Cove by
Ron Rash (
US , 2012)
2015 – Un millón de gotas by
Víctor del Árbol (
Spain , 2014)
2016 – Perro muerto by
Boris Quercia (
Chile , 2015)
2017 – Sanning med modifikation by
Sara Lövestam (Sweden, 2015)
2018 – No Tomorrow by
Jake Hinkson (US, 2015)
2019 – Green Sun by
Kent Anderson (US, 2018)
2020 – Bearskin by
James A. McLaughlin (
US , 2018)
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