Arthur Ellis Awards

The Arthur Ellis Award (Short form: " Arthur ") is the Canadian national literary prize for crime fiction. He has been awarded since 1984 by the Crime Writers of Canada (CWC ). Authors have to be resident in Canada or have Canadian nationality, provided they live abroad. The award is being awarded in eight categories. Since 2007, there is a category for the best unpublished first novel ( " Best Unpublished First Novel ", called "The Unhanged Arthur "). The latter award is blindly determined, that is, the jury receives unmarked manuscripts that must evaluate it. Only after the jury's decision, the name of the author or the author is announced. Publication in book form occurs in the year following the award. For special forensic literary merit is awarded by the President of the CWC Derrick Murdoch Award. The first awards ceremony, he was still called "Chairman's Award", but was renamed in the second year after the first prize winner Derrick Murdoch.

The price is an artful wooden puppet, which is a hanged person - with a rope around his neck. Arms and legs of the figure can be moved by pulling on a small rope. The statue was designed by Peter Blais; made it is crafted by Canadian artist Barry Lambeck and will bring back memories of the macabre namesake: The Englishman Arthur B. English used the pseudonym Arthur Ellis; he was from 1913 Canada's official hangman.

Current categories

The winners / inside the asterisked categories are listed below

Award winners

Best Novel - Best Novel

1 = publisher and yearly data refer to the original and German editions

Best Debut Novel - Best First Novel

1 = publisher and yearly data refer to the original and German editions

Best not been published first work - The Unhanged Arthur Award ( Best Unpublished First Novel )

1 = publisher and yearly data refer to the original and German editions

Special price for special services - Derrick Murdoch Award

( No awards in the years 1989, 1991, 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 2007 and 2009 )