Thread: On the irrelevance of awards
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Old 04-21-2015, 02:59 PM   #22
mandy314
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Should be irrelevant - but the information seems to belong in this thread somehow

Two of Upfield's Bonaparte novels have been shortlisted for "major" crime fiction awards:
- The Man of Two Tribes - Dagger Award Best Novel 1956
- Bony Buys a Woman - Edgar Award Best Hardcover 1958

Seriously. I look at Edgar/Dagger/Hammett and try to read at least the winners. All this "best novel" lark is somewhat senseless anyhow. OK - with the Daggers a first novel can get the Gold Dagger and there is no category for "Best Paperback Original". With the Edgars we have a choice of "best" novels - to name only some categories like "Best First Novel by an American Authors", "Best Hardcover published in US", "Best Paperback Original". And now they even put "Best EBook Original" in the Best Paperback category. Do we really need ebook-specific fiction awards?
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