The Prix du Polar Européen (English: European Crime Fiction Prize) is a French literary prize awarded each year for the best crime or thriller novel by a European author in French or a French translation. The award was launched by the weekly magazine Le Point in 2003.
The jury is composed of police officers, publishing professionals and journalists. The prize was originally delivered to the winning author at the opening of the Nice Book Festival but, since 2007, it has been awarded at the Quais du Polar in Lyon.
Juries The President of the first jury was Charles Diaz, the former Inspector-General of the IGPN ("Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale" or General Inspectorate of the National Police). The President of the tenth jury, in 2012, was the French politician Jean-Louis Debré.
Winners
Year Author Translator(s) Author's nationality Title (original publication year) Ref 2003 Laura Grimaldi Geneviève Leibrich La Colpa (1990) 2004 Bill James Danièle & Pierre Bondil Protection (1988) 2005 Laura Wilson Marie-Lise Marlière The Lover (2004) 2006 Giancarlo De Cataldo Catherine Siné & Serge Quadruppani Romanzo Criminale (2002) 2007 John Harvey Jean-Paul Gratias Ash and Bone (2005) 2008 Arnaldur Indriðason Éric Boury Kleifarvatn (2004) 2009 Philip Kerr Johan-Frédérik Hel-Guedj The One From the Other (2006) 2010 Pierre Lemaitre Cadres Noirs 2011 Declan Hughes Aurélie Tronchet The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006) 2012 Víctor del Árbol Claude Bleton The Sadness of the Samurai (2011) 2013 Petros Markaris Michel Volkovitch Liquidations à la grecque (2012) 2014 Hervé Le Corre Après la guerre (2014) 2015 Sascha Arango Dominique Autrand Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen (2014) 2016 Olivier Norek Surtensions 2017 Hannelore Cayre La Daronne 2018 Malin Persson Giolito Laurence Mennerich Quicksand (2016) 2019 Tim Willocks Benjamin Legrand La Mort selon Turner 2020 Abir Mukherjee Fanchita Gonzalez-Batlle L'attaque du Calcutta-Darjeeling 2021 Jurica Pavicic Olivier Lannuzel L'eau rouge 2022 Victor Guilbert Terra Nullius 2023 Jacky Schwartzmann Shit! 2024 Davide Longo Marianne Faurobert L'Affaire Bramard 2025 Vera Buck Brice Germain Les Enfants loups
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