2019 Arthur Ellis Award winner for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book is...

On the evening of May 23, the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing were awarded by the Crime Writers of Canada. Awarded annually since 1984, the Arthur Ellis Awards include the following categories:

• Best Crime Novel 
• Best First Crime Novel 
• Best Crime Novella
• Best Crime Short Story
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Nonfiction Crime Book
• Best Unpublished Manuscript (a.k.a the Unhanged Arthur)

Here is the award information relevant to youngCanLit:

2019 Arthur Ellis Award for  

Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book 

The nominees were . . .

And the award goes to...

Escape

Written by Linwood Barclay
Puffin Canada
978-0-143198789
256 pp.
Ages 8-12
2018

Arthur Ellis Awards for Crime Writing: 2015 -2018 winners in Best Juvenile/Young Adult category

Over the past few years, I have been so busy trying to ensure I review as many books on my blog CanLit for LittleCanadians that I have been negligent about keeping up with book award news.  Sadly, I missed announcing winners of the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing from the Crime Writers of Canada for multiple years. Mea culpa.

The news may be old but these winners are still worthy of being recognized and make up a great list of must-read crime and mystery books.  So let's applaud their wins and toast them now.

Congratulations

🙌

 to these winners of the 

Arthur Ellis Award for 

Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Books!

2015

The winner is:
Dead Man's Switch

Written by Sigmund Brouwer

Harvest House

•••••

 

2016

 

The winner is:

Trouble is a Friend of Mine

Written by Stephanie Tromly

Kathy Dawson Books

•••••

 

2017

The winner is:

Masterminds: Criminal Destiny

Written by Gordon Korman

HarperCollins

•••••

 

2018

The winner is:

Chase

Written by Linwood Barclay

Puffin Canada

Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing: Shortlists for 2019 announced

The shortlist of nominees for the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing were announced on April 18 but I have fallen behind in posting about most awards. So let me remedy that now by sharing with you the announcement of the shortlisted titles for these awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada since 1984 in the following categories:

For Published Works:
• Best Crime Novel 
• Best First Crime Novel 
• Best Crime Novella
• Best Crime Short Story
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Nonfiction Crime Book
• Best Unpublished Manuscript (a.k.a the Unhanged Arthur)

Here are the shortlisted titles for the 
2019 Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book Award:

Escape
Written by Linwood Barclay
Puffin Canada
 

The House of One Thousand Eyes
Written by Michelle Barker
Annick Press
Reviewed here
 

Call of the Wraith (The Blackthorn Key #4)
Written by Kevin Sands
Aladdin
 

The Ruinous Sweep
Written by Tim Wynne-Jones
Candlewick Press 
Reviewed here

The Rumrunner's Boy
Written by E.R. Yatscoff
TG & R Books






Winners in all categories will be announced on May 23, 2019.

2013 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Mystery/Crime Book awarded!

Last night, the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing were awarded by the Crime Writers of Canada. Awarded annually since 1984, the Arthur Ellis Awards include the following categories:

For Published Works:

• Best Crime Novel *
• Best First Crime Novel *
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Crime Nonfiction
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Crime Short Story

For Unpublished Work:

• The Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel *

Here is the award information relevant to youngCanLit:

2013 Arthur Ellis Award for  

Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book 

The nominees were . . .

And the Winner is . . .

Becoming Holmes

The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Final Case 

by Shane Peacock
Tundra Books
978-1-770-492325
245 pp.
Ages 10-14
2012

CanLit for LittleCanadians reviewed it here.

2013 Arthur Ellis Awards 2013 Nominees announced

For readers of crime, mystery, espionage and all manner of criminal doings, both fictional and factual, the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing are the awards to check out for the newest and the best. (A bit of trivia: The awards are named for the pseudonym of the Official Executioner for the Dominion of Canada from 1913-1935, which explains the appearance of the award as seen to the right.)  Awarded annually by the Crime Writers of Canada since 1984, the Arthur Ellis Awards include the following categories:

For Published Works:

• Best Crime Novel *
• Best First Crime Novel *
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Crime Nonfiction
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Crime Short Story

For Unpublished Work:

• The Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel *

*Awards for which prizes are provided

This year's shortlist of works from 2012 were announced last night at events in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa.  

Here are the nominees for the Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book:

Lisa Harrington
Live to Tell
Cormorant Books

Y. S. Lee
The Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel
Candlewick Press

Reviewed here 

Sylvia McNicoll
Crush Candy Corpse
James Lorimer & Company

 Reviewed here

Shane Peacock
Becoming Holmes
Tundra Books

Reviewed here

Elizabeth Stewart
The Lynching of Louie Sam
Annick Press

The awards will be presented at the Arthur Ellis Awards Banquet in Toronto on May 30, 2013. For more information about this year's awards, go to the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards

Arthur Ellis 2012 Awards for Crime Writing

For readers of crime, mystery, espionage and all manner of criminal doings, both fictional and factual, the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing are the awards to check out for the newest and the best. (A bit of trivia: The awards are named for the pseudonym of the Official Executioner for the Dominion of Canada from 1913-1935, which explains the appearance of the award as seen to the right.)  Awarded annually by the Crime Writers of Canada since 1984, the Arthur Ellis Awards include the following categories:

For Published Works:

• Best Crime Novel *
• Best First Crime Novel *
• Best Crime Book in French
• Best Crime Nonfiction
• Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book
• Best Crime Short Story

For Unpublished Work:

• The Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel *

*Awards for which prizes are provided

On the evening of May 31, 2012, Canada's crime writers attended the Arthur Ellis Awards Banquet in Toronto, some leaving with their own wooden statuette of a hanging man (whose arms and legs flail when the string is pulled), including the author of the Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book.

  

2012 Arthur Ellis Award for  

Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book 

nominees and winner:

Short List:

• Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones (Candlewick) 

• Charlie's Key by Rob Mills (Orca Books) 

• Empire of Ruins: The Hunchback Assignments III by Arthur Slade (HarperCollins Canada)

• Held by Edeet Ravel (Annick Press) 

• Missing by Becky Citra (Orca Books)

Winner:

Blink and Caution 

by Tim Wynne-Jones 

Candlewick

342 pp.

Ages 14+

2011

Blink left his mother and abusive stepfather for a life on the streets, and Caution took to the streets after the accidental shooting death of her cherished older brother. When Caution decides take off on her drug-dealer boyfriend, her life collides with Blink's in less than conventional circumstances. CanLit for LittleCanadians reviewed it here.

As an aside (okay, more like its own paragraph), the origin of the statuette's design has an interesting connection to children's literature.  Children's and YA author, Tim Wynne-Jones, winner of this year's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book for Blink and Caution (Candlewick, 2011), apparently had a role in its design.  However,  Tim Wynne-Jones, who became an officer of the Order of Canada in December of 2011, humbly explains his role in this note on the Crime Writers of Canada website.

A note on Arthur by Tim Wynne-Jones

I'm happy to clarify Arthur's history. It was my job to head the committee, as Tony said. And my big contribution, as far as I'm concerned, was in realizing that a book prize is kind of a stage prop. The darn thing should look good in somebody's hands as well as on their mantel. So I thought to go to a stage designer, Peter Blais, who happened also to be a wonderful actor, and who happened to be someone I had acted with and knew to have a wicked sense of humour. He got it! He understood what I was trying to say and came up with the jumping jack. So Peter very much deserves the kudos for Arthur and I'm just pleased to have got him on board. It's the best prize around, as far as I'm concerned. I'm lucky enough to have won one and also to have won an Edgar and Arthur beats Edgar all to heck!  (Retrieved from http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/awards/arthur-ellis-awards/history on April 19, 2012.)