George Pelecanos Nabs Hammett Prize
The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers announced yesterday The Turnaround by George Pelecanos as the winner of the 2008 Hammett Prize.
Finalists were:
Leading Lady by Heywood Gould
The Finder by Colin Harrison
City of the Sun by David Levien
South by South Bronx by Abraham Rodriguez
Named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett and established in 1992 the Hammett Prize honours awork of literary excellence (fiction or non-fiction) in the field of crime writing, by a US or Canadian author. The award is a bronze trophy, designed by sculptor Peter Boiger, whose falcon-headed thin man symbolizes Dashielll Hammett's literary spirit.
Previous winners include: The Outlander by Gil Adamson (2007); The Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman (2006); Alibi by Joseph Kanon (2005).
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