Falcon Award: Don Winslow

Jiro Kimura of The Gumshoe Site tells us that California author Don Winslow won the 2016 Falcon Award from The Maltese Falcon Society Japan for MISSING: NEW YORK (2014, no American or British editions published) as the best hardboiled/private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year.  The Falcon, given out by Japan’s Maltese Falcon Society, is meant to honor “the best hard-boiled/private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year.”

This is Winslow's fourth Falcon win, after A COOL BREEZE ON THE UNDERGROUND; THE POWER OF THE DOG; and THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE.

FYI: The Missing is not available in English. I found both German and Italian editions.

Maltese Falcon Prize

The  2015 Maltese Falcon Prize went to Roger Hobbs for his debut novel Ghost Man (2013). The Maltese Falcon Prize is awarded by Japan's crime-fiction Maltese Falcon Society to "the best hard-boiled/private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year."

HT: The Rap Sheet