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NOMINEES FOR ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN HAMMETT PRIZE ANNOUNCED
The North American Branch of the International Association
of Crime Writers is pleased to announce nominees for their
annual HAMMETT PRIZE for a work of literary
excellence in the field of crime writing by a US or Canadian
author. The nominees are as follows:
Heywood Gould, Leading Lady (Five Star)
Colin Harrison, The Finder: A Novel (Sarah Crichton
Books/Farrar, Straus &
Giroux)
David Levien, City of the Sun: A Novel (Doubleday)
George Pelecanos, The Turnaround (Little, Brown)
Abraham Rodriguez, South by South Bronx (Akashic)
A reading committee of IACW/NA members selected the
nominees, based on recommendations from other members and
the publishing community. The committee was headed by Deen
Kogan and included William Bayer, David Goewey, William
Heffernan, and Allen Wyler.
The winner will be chosen by three distinguished outside
judges: Harvey Finkel, owner of the Clinton Book Shop
(Clinton, NJ); author John Matteson, winner of the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for biography for Eden’s Outcasts: The
Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father; and Carolyn
Wakeman who is on the faculty of the University of
California’s Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and
directs their Asia-Pacific Program. Her latest book,
co-written with San San Tin, is No Time for Dreams:
Living in Burma under Military Rule.
The organization will name the HAMMETT PRIZE winner,
during the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association
(NAIBA) Fall Conference, in Baltimore, October 4-5, 2009.
The winner will receive a bronze trophy, designed by
sculptor Peter Boiger.
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