Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière is a French literary prize founded in 1948 by author and literary critic Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe. It is the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France. Two prizes are awarded annually to the best French and the best international crime novel published in that year.

French Prize

1940-50s

* 1948 : "Le Cinquième procédé" by Léo Malet
* 1949 : "La Parole est au mort" by Odette Sorensen
* 1950 : "Jeux pour mourir" by Géo-Charles Véran
* 1951 : "Fumées sans feu" by Jacques Decrest et Germaine Decrest
* 1952 : "Passons la monnaie" by André Piljean
* 1953 : "Opération Odyssée" by Jean-Pierre Conty
* 1954 : "La Beauté qui meurt" by François Brigneau
* 1955 : "Assassin mon frère" by Gilles-Maurice Dumoulin
* 1956 : "Pleins feux sur Sylvie" by Michel Lebrun and "Les Petites mains de la Justice" by Guy Venayre
* 1957 : "Le Bourreau pleure" by Frédéric Dard
* 1958 : "On n'enterre pas le dimanche" by Fred Kassak
* 1959 : "Deuil en rouge" by Paul Gerrard

1960s

* 1960 : "Les Mantes religieuses" by Hubert Monteilhet
* 1962 : "Le Procès du Diable" by Pierre Forquin
* 1963 : "Piège pour Cendrillon" by Sébastien Japrisot
* 1964 : "La Jeune morte" by Michel Carnal
* 1965 : "Bâteau en Espagne" by Marc Delory
* 1966 : "L'interne de service" by Laurence Oriol
* 1967 : "Le Crocodile est dans l'escalier" by Jean-Pierre Alem
* 1968 : "Un beau monstre" by Dominique Fabre
* 1969 : "Drôle by pistolet" by Francis Ryck

1970s

* 1970 : "Zigzags" by Paul Andréota
* 1971 : "L'Assassin maladroit" by René Réouven
* 1972 : "Le Canal rouge" by Gilbert Tanugi
* 1973 : "O Dingos, O Châteaux" by Jean-Patrick Manchette
* 1974 : "De 5 à 7 avec la mort" by André-Paul Duchâteau
* 1975 : "Un incident indépendant de notre volonté" by Yvon Toussaint
* 1976 : "Les Sirènes de minuit" by Jean-François Coatmeur
* 1977 : "La Plus longue course d'Abraham Coles, chauffeur de taxi" by Christopher Diable
* 1978 : "Dénouement avant l'aube" by Madeleine Coudray
* 1979 : "Le Salon du prêt à saigner" by Joseph Bialot

1980s

* 1980 : "Le Crime d'Antoine" by Dominique Roulet
* 1981 : "Reflets changeants sur mare de sang," "L'Unijambiste de la côte 284," and "Aime le maudit" by Pierre Siniac
* 1982 : "L'Audience solennelle" by Jean-Pierre Cabannes
* 1983 : "Collabo song" by Jean Mazarin
* 1984 : "Sur la terre comme au ciel" by René Belletto
* 1985 : "Meurtres pour mémoire" by Didier Daeninckx
* 1986 : "La queue du scorpion" by Christian Gernigon
* 1986 : "N'oubliez pas l'artiste" by Gérard Delteil
* 1987 : "Trois morts au soleil" by Jacques Sadoul
* 1988 : "Aix abrupto" by Jean-Paul Demure
* 1989 : "Un gros besoin d'amour" by Tito Topin

1990s

* 1990 : "Billard à l'étage" by Michel Quint
* 1991 : "Hôpital souterrain" by Hervé Jaouen
* 1992 : "La Commedia des ratés" by Tonino Benacquista
* 1993 : "Boulevard des ombres" by Paul Couturiau
* 1994 : "Tiré à part" by Jean-Jacques Fiechter
* 1995 : "La Main morte" by Philippe Huet
* 1996 : "Ambernave" by Jean-Hugues Oppel
* 1997 : "La Mort des bois" by Brigitte Aubert
* 1998 : "Sans homicide fixe" by Serge Gardebled
* 1999 : "La Paresse de Dieu" by Laurent Bénégui

2000s

* 2000 : "Du bruit sous le silence" by Pascal Dessaint
* 2001 : "Chasseurs de têtes" by Michel Crespy
* 2002 : "Les Brouillards de la Butte" by Patrick Pécherot
* 2003 : "L'Ivresse des dieux" by Laurent Martin
* 2004 : "Double peine" by Virginie Brac
* 2004 : "Les Silences de Dieu" by Gilbert Sinoue
* 2005 : "Le Testament de Dieu" by Philippe Le Roy
* 2006 : "La Colère des enfants déchus" by Catherine Fradier
* 2007 : "Citoyens clandestins" by DOA

International Prize

1940-50s

*1948 - Frances Noyes Hart, "The Bellamy Trial", (USA, 1927)
*1949 - Patrick Quentin, "Puzzle for Pilgrims", (USA, 1947)
*1950 - Martha Albrand, "After Midnight", (USA, 1948)
*1951 - Joel Townsley Rogers, "The Red Right Hand", (USA, 1945)
*1952 - Patricia McGerr, "Follow as the Night", (USA, 1951)
*1953 - Geoffrey Holiday Hall, "The End is Known", (USA, 1949)
*1953 - Louis Malley, "Horns for the Devil", (USA, 1951)
*1954 - Cornell Woolrich, "The Body in Grant's Tomb", (USA, 1943), (short story)
*1955 - Michael Gilbert, "Death in Captivity", (UK, 1952)
*1956 - Joseph Arnold Hayes, "The Desperate Hours", (USA, 1955)
*1956 - Charles Williams, "Nothing in Her Way", (USA, 1953)
*1957 - Patricia Highsmith, "The Talented Mr. Ripley", (USA, 1955)
*1958 - Chester Himes, "The Five-Cornered Square", (USA, 1956)
*1959 - Donald Downes, "Orders to Kill", (USA, 1958)

1960s

*1960 - Thomas Sterling, "The Evil of the Day", (UK, 1955)
*1961 - no prize awarded
*1962 - Suzanne Blanc, "The Green Stone", (USA, 1961)
*1963 - Shelley Smith, "The Ballad of the Running Man", (UK, 1961)
*1964 - John D. MacDonald, "A Key to the Suite", (USA, 1963)
*1965 - Nicolas Freeling, "Gun before Butter", (UK, 1963)
*1966 - Adam Hall, "The Berlin Memorandum", (UK, 1965)
*1967 - Audrey Erskine Lindop, "I Start Counting", (UK, 1966)
*1968 - Giorgio Scerbanenco, "Betrayers of All", ("Traditori di tutti", Italy, 1966)
*1969 - Josephine Tey, "The Daughter of Time", (UK, 1951)
*1969 - John Dickson Carr, "Fire, Burn!" (USA, 1957)

1970s

*1970 - Antonis Samarakis, "The Flaw", ("To Lathos", Greece, 1965)
*1971 - Anders Bodelsen, "Hit and Run, Run, Run", ("Hændeligt uheld", Denmark, 1968)
*1971 - Dorothy Uhnak, "The Ledger", (USA, 1970)
*1972 - Laird Koenig & Peter L. Dixon, "The Children Are Watching", (USA, 1970)
*1973 - E. V. Cunningham, "Millie", (USA, 1973)
*1974 - Stanley Ellin, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall", (USA, 1972)
*1975 - Edward Boyd & Roger Parkes, "The Dark Number", (UK, 1973)
*1976 - Eric Ambler, "Doctor Frigo", (UK, 1974)
*1977 - Herbert Lieberman, "City of the Death", (USA, 1976)
*1978 - Ellery Queen, "And on the Eighth Day", (USA, 1964)
*1979 - Stanisław Lem, "The Chain of Chance" ("Katar", Poland, 1975)

1980s

*1980 - Mary Higgins Clark, A Stranger is Watching
*1981 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seas
*1982 - John Crosby, Party of the Year
*1983 - Frederick Forsyth, No Comebacks
*1984 - Janwillem van de Wetering, The Maine Massacre
*1985 - Peter Lovesey, Swing, Swing Together
*1986 - Elmore Leonard, City Primeval
*1987 - Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead
*1988 - P. D. James, A Taste for Death
*1988 - Andrew Vachss, Strega
*1989 - Bill Pronzini, Snowbound

1990s

*1990 - Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance
*1991 - Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
*1992 - James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues
*1993 - Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel
*1994 - Michael Dibdin, Cabal
*1995 - Richard North Patterson, Degree of Guilt
*1996 - Caleb Carr, The Alienist
*1997 - Stuart Woods, Imperfect Strangers
*1998 - Frances Fyfield, Shadow Play
*1999 - Michael Connelly, Blood Work

2000s

*2000 - Rennie Airth, "River of Darkness", (South Africa, 1999)
*2001 - Peter Robinson, "In a Dry Season", (Canada, 1999)
*2002 - Peter Dickinson, "One Foot in the Grave", (UK, 1979)
*2003 - Deon Meyer, "Dead before Dying", (South Africa, 1999)
*2004 - John Katzenbach, "The Analyst", (USA, 2002)
*2005 - Ian Rankin, "Dead Souls", (UK, 1999)
*2006 - Larry Beinhart, "The Librarian", (USA, 2004)
*2007 - Arnaldur Indriðason, "Voices", ("Röddin", Iceland, 2003)

__NOTOC__