Bouchercon 2011 concluded today, Sept.18, with the announcement of the winners of the mystery convention’s own Anthony Awards. Selected by Bouchercon participants, the Anthony Awards, like the convention itself, are named in honor of mystery fiction writer and critic Anthony Boucher.
The Mystery Series Examiner is indebted to Lesa Holstine and Jen Forbus for the following summary of this year’s Anthony Award winners. Their Twitter messages from the meeting, along with OmniMystery News, provided much of the data used here.
- Louise Penny continued her prize-winning streak with a Best Novel Anthony for Bury Your Dead (Minotaur), the sixth book in her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. She adds this award to this title’s Macavity Best Novel Award, to the Agatha Award for Best 2010 Novel, to the Dilys Award and to the Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award.
- Duane Swierczynski also left Bouchercon 2011 with multiple awards. His Expiration Date (Minotaur) won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original as well as the Crimespree Favorite Book of the Year Award.
- Dana Cameron's "Swing Shift" in Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side (Berkley) won the Best Short Story Anthony. "Swing Shift" had earlier taken the Macavity Award in this category.
- Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran (HarperCollins), the Anthony Award winner for Best Critical/Non-Fiction, was yet another multiple award winner. This book also received Macavity and Agatha Awards.
- Hilary Davidson received the Best First Novel Anthony for The Damage Done (Forge Books) as well as the Crilmespree Best First Novel award.
- Jason Star’s The Chill (Vertigo Crime) won the Best Graphic Novel Anthony.
- The Stop, You're Killing Me website, maintained by Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich, won the Anthony Award for Best Website/Blog.
Bouchercon 2011 conference chair Jon Jordan and Awards Chair John Purcell announced all the nominees for the 25th annual Anthony Awards on May 10. Today’s selections were made from that list.
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