Prix du Polar Européen
The Prix du Polar Européen is a French literary prize awarded each year for the best crime novel by a European author in a French translation. The award was launched by the weekly magazine Le Point in 2003.
The jury is composed of police officers, publishing professionals and journalists. The prize was originally delivered in public to the author at the opening of the Nice Book Festival but, since 2007, it has been awarded at the Quais du Polar in Lyon
Jurys
The President of the jury of the first award was Charles Diaz, the former Inspector-General of the IGPN ("Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale" or General Inspectorate of the National Police). The President of the tenth jury, in 2012, was the French politician Jean-Louis Debré.
Winners
| Year | Author | Translator(s) | Author's nationality | Title (original publication year) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Laura Grimaldi | Geneviève Leibrich |  Italy
|
La Colpa (1990) |
| 2004 | Bill James | Danièle & Pierre Bondil |  United Kingdom
|
Protection (1988) |
| 2005 | Laura Wilson | Marie-Lise Marlière | United Kingdom
|
The Lover (2004) |
| 2006 | Giancarlo De Cataldo | Catherine Siné & Serge Quadruppani | Italy
|
Romanzo Criminale (2002) |
| 2007 | John Harvey | Jean-Paul Gratias | United Kingdom
|
Ash and Bone (2005) |
| 2008 | Arnaldur Indriðason | Éric Boury |  Ireland
|
Klefarvatn (2004) |
| 2009 | Philip Kerr | Johan-Frédérik Hel-Guedj | United Kingdom
|
The One From the Other (2006) |
| 2010 | Pierre Lemaitre |
n/a |  France
|
Cadres Noirs |
| 2011 | Declan Hughes | Aurélie Tronchet | Ireland
|
The Wrong Kind of Blood (2006) |
| 2012 | Víctor del Árbol | Claude Bleton |  Spain
|
La Tristeza del Samurái (2011) |
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