The CWA Diamond Dagger is an award given by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom to authors who have made an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre.
Winners 1986 – Eric Ambler 1987 – P. D. James 1988 – John le Carré 1989 – Dick Francis 1990 – Julian Symons 1991 – Ruth Rendell 1992 – Leslie Charteris 1993 – Ellis Peters 1994 – Michael Gilbert 1995 – Reginald Hill 1996 – H. R. F. Keating 1997 – Colin Dexter 1998 – Ed McBain 1999 – Margaret Yorke 2000 – Peter Lovesey 2001 – Lionel Davidson 2002 – Sara Paretsky 2003 – Robert Barnard 2004 – Lawrence Block 2005 – Ian Rankin 2006 – Elmore Leonard 2007 – John Harvey 2008 – Sue Grafton 2009 – Andrew Taylor 2010 – Val McDermid 2011 – Lindsey Davis 2012 – Frederick Forsyth 2013 – Lee Child 2014 – Simon Brett 2015 – Catherine Aird 2016 – Peter James 2017 – Ann Cleeves 2018 – Michael Connelly 2019 – Robert Goddard 2020 – Martin Edwards 2021 – Martina Cole 2022 – C. J. Sansom 2023 – Walter Mosley 2024 – James Lee Burke and Lynda La Plante 2025 – Mick HerronSpanoudi, Melina. "Slow Horses author Mick Herron awarded CWA Diamond Dagger" The Bookseller. January 23, 2025. 2026 – Mark Billingham
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