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SARAH WATERS WINS THE CWA ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL DAGGER 2002 |
Sarah Waters has won the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Dagger for best historical crime novel for her book Fingersmith, published by Virago. The announcement was made at a reception at the Crime in Store bookshop in Store Street, London, on Wednesday 30 October. The book was also short-listed for the Man Booker Award. The Ellis Peters judges described it as a dark and subtle novel. It is set in Victorian England and, the judges say, creates a stunning atmosphere of wickedness and fear. "Scene after scene brilliantly brings to life the period and the characters involved in a cunning scheme to defraud an heiress." The prize is £3,000 and an ornamental dagger. The award is sponsored by publishers Headline and Little Brown and the estate of Ellis Peters. The dagger will be presented at the CWA The Macallan Awards Lunch in London on 7 November. Chairman of the judges, Susanna Yager, said: "Fingersmith announced itself as the winner as soon as we read it. It is an outstanding book in any category." Sarah Waters said, "It is wonderful to have won. My passion for historical fiction was what got me writing in the first place." |
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