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The Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel (popularly called the Ngaio) is a literary award presented annually in New Zealand to recognise excellence in crime fiction, mystery, and thriller writing. The Award was established by journalist and crime fiction reviewer Craig Sisterson in 2010, and is named after Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of the four Queens for Crime of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Award has traditionally been presented each year in Christchurch, the hometown of Dame Ngaio.〔https://www.facebook.com/NgaioMarshAward Official Facebook page〕 == Beginnings == The Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was launched in 2010 by lawyer turned journalist Craig Sisterson, who wanted to provide an opportunity for New Zealand crime and mystery writing to be supported, recognised and celebrated, as crime novels by local authors were often overlooked by festival organisers and the main books awards in New Zealand, and up until that point New Zealand - unlike most other English-speaking countries - did not have a specific award for crime, mystery, and thriller fiction.〔http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10692409 Crime on the Rise〕 Sisterson had been writing reviews and features about crime writers for a number of magazines and newspapers in New Zealand and Australia and had set up a website about New Zealand crime writing.〔http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com Crime Watch〕 Earlier in 2010, he had written an opinion piece, "Kiwis love crime fiction, but what about our own?" for ''Booknotes'' magazine saying that New Zealand had great crime writers who were not being supported locally, by bookstores, literary festivals, or awards, and it was time that changed.〔http://kiwicrime.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/soapbox-kiwis-love-crime-fiction-but.html Booknotes article〕 After discussions with many people in the New Zealand book industry, Sisterson decided to launch the Ngaio Marsh Award at the Christchurch Writers Festival in 2010, honouring both contemporary crime writers and New Zealand's most famous mystery writer in her own hometown.〔http://kiwicrime.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/ngaio-marsh-award-2014-looking-back-on.html Ngaio Marsh Award: How It All Began〕 He sought and received the blessing of Dame Ngaio Marsh's closest living relative to honour Dame Ngaio by using her name and an artistic impression of her likeness for New Zealand's first-ever crime fiction prize.〔http://books.scoop.co.nz/2013/12/02/ihaka-scoops-2013-ngaio-marsh-award/ Scoop Review of Books〕 The inaugural award was intended to be presented at the biennial Christchurch Writers Festival in September 2010, but had to be postponed due to a severe earthquake that struck the city that month, leading to the cancellation of the festival. The first Ngaio Marsh Award was presented at a special event in Christchurch in December 2010, and won by the pseudonymous author Alix Bosco for the thriller ''Cut & Run''. Bosco did not attend the presentation ceremony, but would later reveal 'herself' as New Zealand screenwriter and playwright Greg McGee in the lead-up to the 2011 Award.〔http://i.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/5436176/Novelists-killer-finally-confesses Sunday Star-Times〕 The launch of the Award, and New Zealand crime writing in general, was featured in major newspapers and magazines in New Zealand, including the ''Sunday Star-Times'',〔http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/4022878/Fiction-Its-a-crime-wave It's a crime wave〕 the ''Herald on Sunday'',〔http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10692409 Crime on the rise〕 and the ''New Zealand Listener''.〔http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/books/crime-wave/ Crime Wave〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ngaio Marsh Award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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