Nero Award
The Nero Wolfe Award (for short: Nero Award) is an American literary prize for crime fiction, which is awarded annually. Namesake of the prize is a fictional character of the American writer Rex Stout. He created with his private detective Nero Wolfe in 33 novels and 41 short stories an extremely famous series and cult figure of crime history. Even on the "Roman - residence " Nero Wolfe ( 454 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 ) was installed by the City of New York and the Nero Wolfe Society, a bronze plaque that commemorates Rex Stout and his idiosyncratic detective. Together with his assistant, Archie Goodwin, in the "I -Form" reflects the experiences in the novels, he has created a worldwide fan base.
The actual price, a fantasy bust of the detective Nero Wolfe is, since 1979 by the New York Nero Wolfe Society ( Nickname: The Wolfe Pack) to a special event, the Black Orchid Banquet, forgive.
In addition to the Nero Award, the Society awards since 2005, a further award for lifetime achievement ( Lifetime Achievement Award ) from crime authors: Archie Goodwin The Award, which is awarded irregularly and is named after Wolfe's assistant. For the first time 2007, The Nero Wolfe Society award for the best unpublished first novel by an author or an author, the Black Orchid Award ( also called Black Orchid Novella Award) - based on Rex Stout's 1942 novel, "Black Orchids". The jury presented works are to move it in the tradition of Novellas by Rex Stout. The selection in this awards ceremony will be blind, ie the jury only be submitted manuscripts by name unmarked. Only after the jury's decision, the name of the prize winner will be announced. A publication of the winning story takes place in the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
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Award winners
(1988, 1989 and 1990 was no award given )
Award for lifetime achievement - Archie Goodwin Award - Lifetime Archievement Award
( posthumous, irregular ceremony )