Prix du Polar Européen

The Prix du Polar Européen (German: "European Crime Price " ) is a French literary prize is awarded annually for the best crime novel by a European author in a French translation. The award was established by the French weekly magazine Le Point in 2003.

About the winners, who will be honored ( in Nice earlier at the Festival du livre ) in spring in the Literature Festival Quais du polar in Lyon, a jury consisting of members of the journal editorial, criminal police officers and prominent crime writers. So at the first ceremony voted the Prix du Polar Européen among others Didier Daeninckx and Dominique Manotti the winner, chaired by the Jury President Charles Diaz, the former Inspector General of Police nationale ( IGPN ). The six finalists, under which the jury determines the best European crime novel, are composed of the submissions of the publisher, which amount to about 60 to 80 new releases.

Award winners

In the eleventh award of the French thriller price end of March 2013 jury selected by the chairman Jean-Louis Debré the Greek Petros Markaris with his novel Liquidation à la grecque the winner, who had appeared in 2012 published by Seuil. It is the seventh part of the Commissioner - Charitos series, which provides an Athenian police inspector at the center, which is faced with several murders in the Greek world of finance. The book had already been published in 2011 in German-speaking countries under the title Bad loans from Diogenes Verlag.