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7th September 2008

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Fyfield and Rob Smith pick up Daggers

11.07.08

Frances Fyfield has won the £20,000 Duncan Lawrie Dagger at this year's Dagger Awards for her novel Blood From Stone (Little, Brown). Debut novelist Tom Rob Smith picked up the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Child 44.

The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English, worth £5,000 to the author and £1000 to the translator, went to authors Dominique Manotti with Lorraine Connection, and translators  Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz and published by EuroCrime (Arcadia Books).

In all, eight daggers were awarded on the night. The winners in full are as follows:

The Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Frances Fyfield, BLOOD FROM A STONE
The International Duncan Lawrie Dagger: Dominique Manotti, THE LORAINE CONNECTION
The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: Tom Rob Smith, CHILD 44
John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger: Matt Rees, THE BETHLEHEM MURDERS (aka THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM)
The Non-Fiction Dagger: Kesper Aspden, NATIONALITY: WOG - THE HOUNDING OF DAVID OLUWALE
Dagger in the Library: Craig Russell
Short Story Award: Martin Edwards for "The Bookbinder's Apprentice"
Debut Dagger: Amer Anwar, WESTERN FRINGES

Prize Daggers Duncan Lawrie Frances Fyfield