CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
Awarded forBest non-fiction work on a crime theme
Sponsored byThe Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
Date6 July 2023 (2023-07-06)
CountryUnited Kingdom
First awarded1978 (1978)
Websitethecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/alcs-gold-dagger-for-non-fiction/

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction is a British literary award established in 1978 by the Crime Writers' Association, who have awarded the Gold Dagger fiction award since 1955.

In 1978 and 1979 only there was also a silver award. From 1995 to 2002 it was sponsored by The Macallan (Scotch whisky brand) and known as The Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. In 2008 the award was sponsored by Owatonna Media (a London-based literary brand investor and owner). Between 2006 and 2010 it was awarded every other year, in even-numbered years, but in 2011 it returned as an annual award. As of 2023 it is called the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.[1] The prize is now a cheque for £1,000 and a decorative dagger.

Winners and shortlists

2020s

2023[2]

2022[4]

2021[6]

2020[7]

2010s

2019 [9][10]

2018 [11][12]

2017[13][14]

2016 [15][16]

2015 [17][18]

2014[19]
2013[20]

2012 [21][22]

2011[23]

Eligibility: works first published in the UK in English between 1 June 2010 and 31 May 2011. The award became an annual fixture once again, but this year the prize fund was halved to £1000.

2010[24]

Eligibility: works published between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2010

2000s

2009

Not awarded as award had become biennial.

2008[25][26]
2007

Not awarded. It was decided that the award was to become a biennial award.[27]

2006[28]
2005[29]
2004[30]

Joint winners

2003[31]
2002[32]
  • Lillian Pizzichini, Dead Man's Wages: the secrets of a London conman and his family (Picador). Life of conman Charlie Taylor, the author's grandfather
    • Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt, His Lives (Macmillan). Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian
    • Don Hale (with Marika Huns & Hamish McGregor), Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder (Century). (Stephen Downing, jailed for murder in 1974, conviction overturned in 2002)
    • Special mention: Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker, Scene of the Crime: a Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective FictionJudged to be outside the scope of the award but worthy of commendation (Aurum)
2001[33][34]
  • Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard (with Tony Thompson), The Infiltrators: the First Inside Account of Life Deep Undercover with Scotland Yard's Most Secret Unit (Penguin). Two members of SO10, the Metropolitan Police's undercover unit
2000[35][36]

1990s

1999

Eligibility: works published in the UK in English between 16 October 1998 and 15 September 1999.  It carried a prize of £2,000. The 1999 Non-Fiction Judges were: Brian Innes (chairman), Robert Church, Professor Bernard Knight, Joan Lock, Kathryn J Skoyles.[37]

1998
1997
  • Paul Britton, The Jigsaw Man (The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist)
1996
1995
  • Martin Beales, Dead Not Buried
1994
1993
  • Alexandra Artley, Murder in the Heart
1992
1991
1990
  • Jonathan Goodman, The Passing of Starr Faithfull

1980s

1989
  • Robert Lindsey, A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
  • Peter Watson, Double Dealer: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen, Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses and a Journalist Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings
1982
1981
1980

1970s

1979
  • Shirley Green, Rachman
1978

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