Hammett Prize

Annual literary award for crime writers

The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing. Established in 1991,^[1] it is named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett.^[2]

Winners

Hammet Prize winners^[3]
Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1991	Elmore Leonard	Maximum Bob	Delacorte
1992	Alice Hoffman	Turtle Moon	Putnam
1993	James Crumley	The Mexican Tree Duck	Mysterious Press
1994	James Lee Burke	Dixie City Jam	Hyperion
1994	Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle's Cellar	Doubleday
1996	Martin Cruz Smith	Rose	Random House
1997	William Deverell	Trial of Passion	McClelland & Stewart
1998	William Hoffman	Tidewater Blood	Algonquin
1999	Martin Cruz Smith	Havana Bay	Random House
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Doubleday/McClelland & Stewart
2001	Alan Furst	Kingdom of Shadows	Random House
2002	Owen Parry	Honor's Kingdom	Morrow
2003	Carol Goodman	The Seduction of Water	Ballantine
2004	Chuck Hogan	Prince of Thieves: A Novel	Scribner
2005	Joseph Kanon	Alibi: A Novel	Henry Holt
2006	Dan Fesperman	The Prisoner of Guantánamo	Knopf
2007	Gil Adamson	The Outlander	House of Anansi
2008	George Pelecanos	The Turnaround	Little, Brown
2009	Jedediah Berry	The Manual of Detection	The Penguin Press
2010	Olen Steinhauer	The Nearest Exit	St. Martin's/Minoutar
2011	James Sallis	The Killer is Dying	Walker and Company
2012	Howard Owen	Oregon Hill	Permanent
2013	Richard Lange	Angel Baby: A Novel	Mulholland
2014	Stephen King	Mr. Mercedes	Scribner
2015	Lisa Sandlin	The Do-Right	Cinco Puntos Press
2016	Domenic Stansberry	The White Devil	Molotov Editions
2017	Stephen Mack Jones	August Snow	Soho Crime
2018	Lou Berney	November Road	Morrow
2019	Jane Stanton Hitchcock	Bluff	Poisoned Pen
2020	David Joy	When These Mountains Burn	Putnam
2021	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears	Flatiron

References

^ "Mystery Book Awards". Burnaby Public Library. Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
^ "The Dashiell Hammett Awards". Thrilling Detective. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
^ "IACW/NA: Hammett Prize: Past Years". International Association of Crime Writers, North America. Retrieved 2023-07-20.