Chapter 27 2. Introduction to the world's major reasoning awards

The most authoritative detective literature award in the western world. Founded by the Detective Writers of America (MWA) in 1946, the award is named after Edgar Allen Poe, the originator of detective fiction. award. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards have the most awards of any category in this field, including: Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Paperback First Edition, Best True Crime, Best Review or Biography, Best Short Story , Best Young Adult Detective Novel, Best Children's Detective Novel, Best TV Series, Best TV Film or Short Play, Best Movie, Best Stage Play, Special Awards, etc. The Edgar Allan Poe Award has been highly respected since its inception.Detective novel writers all over the world are proud to receive this award, and detective novel fans take the award as their own reading vane.The Edgar Allan Poe Best Novel Award is known as the "Oscar Award in the field of detective fiction".

Established in 1986, the Dagger Award is sponsored by the British Detective Writers Association and is known as the "Nobel Prize for British detective fiction".There are many awards in the British reasoning creation industry, and among these awards, the most representative and the most indicative of the success of a reasoning writer is undoubtedly this award. There are also many awards for the Dagger Award, including: Diamond Dagger, Gold Dagger, Silver Dagger, Steel Dagger, International Dagger, New Blood Dagger, Last Smile Dagger, Library Dagger, etc. Established in 1982, it specially rewards private detective novels, and never considers other types of works such as police detective mode.

Established in 1954, the Edogawa Ranpo Award was established by Edogawa Ranpo who donated 1 million yen to promote the development of mystery novels in his sixtieth year.Sponsored by the Japan Detective Writers Club, it is the oldest and most authoritative mystery novel newcomer award in Japan. The intention of Edogawa Ranpo to establish this award is to recognize individuals or groups that have contributed to the publication of mystery novels. Therefore, the winner of the first Ranpo Award is Nakajima Kawa, a scholar of mystery studies who compiled the "Dictionary of Detective Fiction" Taro, "Hayakawa Pocket Reasoning" awarded to Hayakawa Study for the second time.

From the third session, in order to promote the writing and reading of mystery novels, the selection committee began to openly recruit excellent long works.Six reasoning novel critics and researchers serve as pre-selection committee members, and 5 finalists are selected from more than 300 submitted works every year, and then 5 reasoning writers will make final selection and review.The first recipient after changing the awarding strategy is Etsuko Nigi and her "Only the Cat Knows". Before the 48th, the Ranpo Award trophy was the "Sherlock Holmes Statue", and since the 49th, it has been changed to the more commemorative "Edogawa Ranpo Statue", and the prize money has also increased to 10 million yen.At the same time, the winning works are published by Kodansha.Starting from the 38th session in 1992, Fuji TV has joined the award support as one of the sponsors, so the award-winning works will soon be made into TV dramas or filmed.

The award has a special status and high quality. The average level of shortlisted works has been stable over the years.However, due to the limitations set by the awards, there are still many leftover works.For example, Takao Tsuchiya's "The Mask of the Tengu", Hideo Nakai's "A Offering to Nothingness", Mama Tento's "The Suspect", Shin Nakamachi's "Murder at the Automobile Training Institute", Shoji Shimada, and Kazuki Orihara's "Inverted Rondo" etc. After the Edogawa Ranpo Award, it is the second Newcomer Award for Mystery Fiction.

Established by Kadokawa Shoten in 1981, it was renamed the Yokomizo Official History Mystery Fiction Award in 2001, and the TV TOKYO Award was added in 2002. TV TOKYO independently selected additional awards based on the standard of video. Compared with other mystery fiction awards, the selection criteria for this award are quite lenient. Mystery novels of different types and personalities can be submitted, and as long as they are shortlisted for the final selection, the works will be published. Founded by the "Japanese Literature Promotion Association" in 1994, the object of solicitation is short and medium-length reasoning. At first, "mystery novels and historical novels in a broad sense" were the object of solicitation, but since 2003 it was changed to "regardless of genre, as long as it is quality" A good entertaining novel will suffice" standard.The trophy is a clock, the prize money is 5 million yen, and the award-winning work will be published as a booklet by Bungeishunjusha.

The predecessor was in 1988, Sogensha's collection "Tetsuya Ayukawa and the Thirteen Mysteries", in which Aya Imao won the thirteenth place.The official award was established in 1990, sponsored by Chuangyuan Society, and the trophy is the statue of Conan Doyle. Ayukawa Tetsuya has been pursuing pure reasoning throughout his life, and is enthusiastic about discovering reasoning talents. This award is named after Ayukawa Tetsuya, and naturally he has a soft spot for traditional puzzle solving.Writers such as Rito Nikaido, Taku Ashibe, Kazuki Sakuraniwa, Tokuro Kani, and Toichi Kurato have all received the attention of the literary world through the Ayukawa Tetsuya Award.

The annual award issued by the Japan Mystery Writers Association aims to recognize works that have contributed to mystery novels and encourage the creation of mystery novels.This award is divided into three categories: novel, short story and newcomer. Authors who have already awarded the award are not allowed to receive the award twice.The judging committee changes every two years, and the main interest is the reasoning of the case. The winning works strive to reflect the mainstream taste and tendency of the reasoning literary world at that time.In addition to the works of writers, the author's contribution to reasoning is also taken into consideration, which has a very special status in the reasoning world.

In order to promote the development of mystery novels of this style, in 2001, initiated by Xingren Ayatsuji, Yusu Arisukawa, Kaoru Kitamura, etc., the Mystery Writers Club of Mysteries was established. At the same time, the mystery novels of this style were set up, and voted by members (must have read all shortlisted works) Published the best work of this mystery novel published in the same year. In mid-December of each year, the judging committee sends the book list and nomination form for this year to the members. In the middle and late January of the following year, the pre-selection committee selects five shortlisted works from many nominated works. It will be announced in mid-May who will win, and the trophy will be designed by Kyogoku Natsuhiko.In addition to the novel and short story awards, there are also critical research awards.The excellent short stories are collected into a volume and published by Kodansha.

The biggest feature of this award is editorial leadership.Inspired by the excavation, the Newcomer Award held by Kodansha since 1995 was named after the call for papers was published in the "Modern Fiction Supplement Mephisto".Long-term solicitation, no upper limit on the number of words for the works, the lower limit is 350 manuscript papers, selected and published by the editor, no bonus, no limit on the number of people, sometimes there is only one winner a year, sometimes as many as five or six.Most of the winners are young writers, and the selected works have a wide variety of themes, diverse writing skills, and diverse faces.