In its sixth year in 2012, Spanish publishing company RBA’s Novela Negra Prize this year goes to Michael Connelly for La caja negra (The Black Box). [At the moment, news of the award is in Spanish only on the RBA site.]
Since RBA established this prize – which offers the world’s largest monetary prize money for the genre – the winner has been announced on the first Thursday of September. The prize money of €125,000 is for the best unpublished work in the genre, recognising the confidence RBA has in its authors – both well-known and those waiting to be discovered. The competition is open to works written in any language with a translation into Spanish or English. The prior year winners are:
[Hat-tip to Jose Ignacio at The Game’s Afoot for the heads-up on the announcement.]
Thank you Rhian