Sunday, April 21, 2024

Crime Fiction in Translation (International) Dagger Speculation (2024)

The CWA Dagger longlists were announced this weekend so I thought I'd better, rather belatedly, put together the list of eligibles for the Crime Fiction in Translation (formerly the International) Dagger 2024. I'll post the Longlist separately.

So here are 70 translated crime novels published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023, that I know about. Please let me know if I've missed any.

In the list below I've also included the country of birth and gender of the author(s) plus the translator's name and the publisher.

Stats: The breakdown by gender is 34 Male and 33 Female and 3 sets of Female and Male authors writing together. Authors are from 19 countries. The most represented country is Sweden (11) followed by France and Japan (8 each) and Iceland (7). Over 56 translators (including pairs of translators) brought you these titles, with at least 9 individuals having translated more than one. 

Maria Adolfsson - Cruel Tides tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, F, Zaffre)
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir - You Can't See Me tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)
Tove Alsterdal  - You Will Never Be Found tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, F, Faber & Faber)
Yukito Ayatsuji - The Mill House Murders tr. Ho-Ling Wong (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)

Samuel Bjork - The Wolf tr. Charlotte Barslund (Norway, M, Bantam)
Stella Blómkvist - Murder at the Residence tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Corylus Books)
Oliver Bottini - The Invisible Web tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, MacLehose Press)
Simone Buchholz - The Acapulco tr. Rachel Ward (Germany, F, Orenda Books)

Simone Campos - Nothing Can Hurt You Now tr. Rahul Bery (Brazil, F, Pushkin Press)
Javier Castillo - The Snow Girl tr. Isabelle Scott (Spain, M, Penguin)
Javier Cercas - Prey For The Shadow tr. Anne McLean (Spain, M, MacLehose Press)
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli - Tina, Mafia Soldier tr. Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Italy, F, Soho Press)

Kjell Ola Dahl - The Lazarus Solution tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)
Maurizio De Giovanni - Winter Swallows tr. Antony Shugaar (Italy, M, World Noir)
Delphine de Vigan - Kids Run the Show tr. Alison Anderson (France, F, Europa Editions)

M T Edvardsson - The Woman Inside tr. Rachel Willson-Broyles (Sweden, M, Macmillan)
Anki Edvinsson - The Snow Angel tr. Paul Norlen (Sweden, F, Thomas & Mercer)
Katrine Engberg - The Island tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Hodder & Stoughton)

Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba - Feral tr. David Homel (Canada, F, Mountain Leopard Press)
Sebastian Fitzek - The Inmate tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, M, Head of Zeus)

Carin Gerhardsen - Black Ice tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, F, Head of Zeus)
Juan Gomez-Jurado - Red Queen tr. Nick Caistor (Spain, M, Macmillan)
Johana Gustawsson - Yule Island tr. David Warriner (France, F, Orenda Books)

Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara Chace (Denmark, F, Swift Press)
Romy Hausmann - Anatomy of a Killer  tr. Jamie Bulloch (Germany, F, Quercus)
Keigo Higashino - The Final Curtain tr. Giles Murray (Japan, M, Abacus)
Jorn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr . Anne Bruce (Norway, M, Michael Joseph)
Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger - Stigma tr. Megan E Turney (Norway, M & M, Orenda Books)

Arnaldur Indridason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, M, Harvill Secker)
Kotaro Isaka - The Mantis tr. Sam Malissa (Japan, M, Harvill Secker)
Jógvan Isaksen - Dead Men Dancing tr. Marita Thomsen (Denmark, M, Norvik Press)

Ragnar Jonasson & Katrín Jakobsdottír - Reykjavík tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, M & F, Michael Joseph)
Katrín Júlíusdóttir  - Dead Sweet tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)

Hisashi Kashiwai - The Kamogawa Food Detectives tr. Jesse Kirkwood (Japan, M, Mantle)
Lars Kepler - The Spider tr. Alice Menzies (Sweden, M & F,  Zaffre)
Seraina Kobler - Deep Dark Blue tr. Alex Roesch (Switzerland, F, Pushkin Press)

Camilla Lackberg & Henrik Fexeus - Cult tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M & F, HarperCollins)
Asa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)
Antonia Lassa - Skin Deep tr. Jacky Collins (France, F, Corylus Books)
Verónica E Llaca - Blood Ties tr. Mark Fried (Mexico, F, Mountain Leopard Press)

Jenny Lund Madsen - Thirty Days of Darkness tr. Megan E Turney (Denmark, F, Orenda Books)
Marco Malvaldi - The Art of Killing Well tr. Howard Curtis  (Italy, M, MacLehose Press)
Javier Marias - Tomás Nevinson tr. Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, M, Hamish Hamilton)
Laurent Mauvignier - The Birthday Party tr. Daniel Levin Becker (France, M, Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Cloé Mehdi - Nothing is Lost tr. Howard Curtis (France, F, Europa Editions)
Tony Mott - Deadly Autumn Harvest tr. Marina Sofia (Romania, F, Corylus Books)
Guillaume Musso - The Stranger in the Seine tr. Rosie Eyre (France, M, W&N)

Niklas Natt och Dag - 1795: The Order of the Furies tr. Ian Giles (Sweden, M, Baskerville)
Jo Nesbo - Killing Moon tr. Seán Kinsella (Norway, M, Harvill Secker)

Claudia Pineiro - A Little Luck tr. Frances Riddle (Argentina, F, Charco Press)

Antoine Renand - Empathy tr. Frank Wynne (France, M, Welbeck)
Mercedes Rosende - The Hand That Feeds You tr. Tim Gutteridge (Uruguay, F, Bitter Lemon Press)

Hansjorg Schneider - The Murder of Anton Livius tr. Mike Mitchell (Switzerland, M, Bitter Lemon Press)
Max Seeck - The Last Grudge tr. Kristian London  (Finland, M, Welbeck)
Im Seong-Sun - The Consultant tr. An Seon Jae (Korea, M, Raven Books)
Mikhail Shevelev - Not Russian tr. Brian James Baer & Ellen Vayner (Russia, M, Europa Editions)
Lilja Sigurdardottir - White as Snow tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, F, Orenda Books)
Yrsa Sigurdardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, F, Hodder & Stoughton)
Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons tr. Sarah Death (Sweden, F, MacLehose Press)
Gunnar Staalesen - Mirror Image tr. Don Bartlett (Norway, M, Orenda Books)
Viveca Sten - Hidden in Shadows tr. Marlaine Delargy (Sweden, F,  AmazonCrossing)
Leonie Swann - The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp tr. Amy Bojang (Germany, F,  Allison & Busby)

Kaoru Takamura - Lady Joker, Volume 2 tr. Allison Markin Powell & Marie  Iida (Japan, F, Baskerville) 
Antti Tuomainen - The Beaver Theory tr. David Hackston (Finland, M, Orenda Books)

Maud Ventura - My Husband tr. Emma Ramadan (France, F, Hutchinson Heinemann)
Ferdinand von Schirach - Coffee and Cigarettes: Scenes from a Crime Writer's Life tr. Katharina Hall (Germany, M, Baskerville)

Yulia Yakovleva - Death of the Red Rider tr. Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Russia, F, Pushkin Vertigo)
Futaro Yamada - The Meiji Guillotine Murders tr. Bryan Karetnyk (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)
Seishi Yokomizo - The Devil's Flute Murders tr. Jim Rion (Japan, M, Pushkin Vertigo)
Hideo Yokoyama - The North Light tr. Louise Heal Kawai (Japan, M, riverrun)


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