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Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. [1] [2] The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, to mystery or crime
Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners (60 P) N. Ned Kelly Award winners (1 C, 40 P) Nero Award winners (1 C, 26 P) S. Shamus Awards (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category ...
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America [1] which is based in New York City. [2] Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America .
She won two of the highest honors for mystery writing: The Agatha Award for best first mystery for "Zero at the Bone" in 1991, and the Edgar Award for best novel for "The Red Scream" in 1995.
The Macavity Awards, established in 1987, are a group of literary awards presented annually to mystery writers.Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. [1]
Agatha Christie. The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore or gratuitous violence, and are not classified as 'hard-boiled.'" [1] At an annual convention in Washington ...
The Anthony Award for Best Short Story, established in 1986, is an annual award presented as part of the Anthony Awards on behalf of Mystery Writers of America. [ 1 ] Recipients