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Honkaku Mystery Award

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The Honkaku Mystery Awards (本格ミステリ大賞, Honkaku Misuteri Taishō) are presented every year by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. They honor the best in honkaku (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery fiction and critical works published in the previous year.

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Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction winners

  • Nominees available in English translation
  • 05 (2005) - Taku Ashibe, Murder in the Red Chamber (紅楼夢の殺人, Koromu no Satsujin)
  • 10 (2010) - Yukito Ayatsuji, Another (アナザー, Anazā)

    • Honkaku Mystery Award for Lifetime Achievement winners

    The award is presented irregularly.

  • 01 (2001) - Tetsuya Ayukawa (Honkaku mystery writer)
  • 04 (2004) - Yasunobu Togawa (ja) (editor), Hideomi Uyama (ja) (editor)
  • 08 (2008) - Fu Chin-chuan (Hiroshi Shimazaki) (ja) (editor)

    • Best Foreign Honkaku Mystery of the Decade (2000-2009)

    The Best Honkaku Mystery Novel translated into Japanese in the last decade (2000–2009).

  • Jack Kerley, The Death Collectors
  • Shortlisted titles
  • Sarah Caldwell, The Sibyl in Her Grave
  • Jeffery Deaver, The Cold Moon
  • Michael Connelly, Blood Work
  • Thomas H. Cook, Instruments of Night
  • Minette Walters, The Shape of Snakes

    • References

    Honkaku Mystery Award Wikipedia
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