2017 Pepe Carvalho Prize

Dennis Lehane has won the 2017 Pepe Carvalho Prize. The prize is given by the Barcelona City Council in recognition of prestigious national and international crime fiction writers. 

The prize will be given at the next literary festival BCNegra, which will take place in Barcelona between 27 January and 4 February 2017.


The Pepe Carvalho Award is a tribute to the memory of Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalban and his famous detective Pepe Carvalho, who contributed to the revival of crime fiction in Europe in the 70s. 

Lehane is the latest to win the award and joins a list made up of: Donna Leon (2016), Alicia Giménez Bartlett (2015), Andrea Camilleri (2014), Maj Sjöwall (2013), Petros Màrkaris (2012), Andreu Martín (2011), Ian Rankin (2010), Michael Connelly (2009), P.D. James (2008), Henning Mankell (2007) and Francisco González Ledesma (2006).

HT: The Rap Sheet and A Crime is Afoot

Dennis Lehane: "So Proud to Be a Bostonian Tonight"

From Mystery Author Dennis Lehane's Facebook Page:

I still haven’t processed today, but some stray observations—

Every thought and every prayer goes out to the victims and their families and loved ones. What a senseless act of waste and violence.

This wasn't about Boston. This was about a global gathering of the finest runners in the world on a gorgeous spring day celebrating nothing but athleticism and a love of life itself.
 
It’s hard to imagine any people more inspiring than all those people who dashed across Boylston Street within seconds of the first explosion, and rushed to the aid of the injured. Didn't give their own safety a thought. Made me proud to be a member of the human race, which I think was the exact opposite of the effect the bomber was hoping for.
 
Great job by my buddy, Dave Robichaud, questioning the official assumption that the fire at JFK Library was part of the attack. He cut down on a lot of public hysteria in one fell swoop with solid, effective journalism.


When I watch the footage of the first explosion, I look at the Boston Public Library Main Branch across the street, and I think no matter who they turn out to be--Islamic jihadists, home grown militia, neo-Nazis, something else--what really scares them, what they truly hate, is the access to knowledge that building exemplifies.

Lisa Hughes of WBZ 4 has been a rock throughout the coverage all day and into the night--empathetic but level-headed, humane and so sharp.

Youngest victim is 8. Sigh. What can you do with that? If your "CAUSE" involves the death of kids, it's not a cause, it's a pestilence.

So proud to be a Bostonian tonight. So brokenhearted to be one, too.

Dennis Lehane in Conversation with Eddie Muller

Litquake presents novelist Dennis Lehane in conversation with the Czar of Noir Eddie Muller.
When: Thursday, August 18 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Where: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA., U.S.A.
How: Tickets
Book sales and signing to follow. Co-presented by the Film Noir Foundation.

Dennis Lehane grew up in Boston. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he has published eight more novels with William Morrow & Co. that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island; The Given Day; and Moonlight Mile. Morrow also published Lehane’s Coronado, a collection of five stories and the play, Coronado, which has received stage productions in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Genoa, Italy. Three of his novels— Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Shutter Island—have been adapted into award-winning films. Mr. Lehane and his wife Angie divide their time between the West Coast of Florida and Boston.

Eddie Muller, “The Czar of Noir,” is a two-time San Francisco Library Laureate, an acclaimed novelist, a renowned film preservationist, and the producer and host of San Francisco;s hugely popular NOIR CITY Film Festival.