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Премия Неда Келли (Ned Kelly Award) - ведущая австралийская литературная награда за лучшие произведения и выдающиеся достижения в детективном жанре.

Учреждена в 1995 году. Изначально вручалась в двух номинациях: лучший роман и лучший дебют. С тех пор премия приобрела значительный статус и расширила перечень номинаций. Вручается с 1996 года Ассоциацией австралийских писателей детективного жанра (Crime Writers' Association of Australian) ежегодно.

В народе награды ласково называют "Neddies".

Детективный жанр уже давно был популярен в Австралии, но в начале 1990-х годов существенно активизировалось написание новых произведений. Для поддержания интереса к детективной литературе было принято решение об учреждении премии.
Когда дело дошло до выбора имени, связь с самым печально известным злодеем нации оказалась очевидной. Награду было решено назвать именем Неда Келли (1854-1880) - австралийского разбойника, известного дерзкими ограблениями банков и убийствами полицейских. Предания и баллады о подвигах Неда Келли, где он предстаёт как «благородный разбойник», появились ещё при его жизни и стали неотъемлемой частью австралийского фольклора. Десятилетиями в стране не прекращались споры: часть австралийцев считает его безжалостным убийцей, часть — символом сопротивления колониальным властям и воплощением национального характера.

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Благодаря поддержке членов Ассоциации австралийских писателей детективного жанра (ACWA), щедрости различных издателей, грантам, полученным от Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) и крупному спонсорскому соглашению с Booktopia, премия Неда Келли стала изюминкой австралийского издательского и литературного календаря, продвигая самое лучшее преступление, которое может предложить эта страна.

Другие названия: Neddies Жанры: Детективы, Зарубежные детективы, Книги для подростков, Зарубежная литература, Зарубежные приключения, Приключения, Документальная литература Страны: Австралия Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1996 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.austcrimewriters.com/

Номинации

Лучший криминальный роман
Ned Kelly Award for Best Australian Crime Novel
Лучший первый криминальный роман
Ned Kelly Award for Best First Australian Crime Novel
Лучшее настоящее преступление
Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime

Номинация учреждена в 1996 году. Для документальной литературы.

Лучший роман для молодежи
Ned Kelly Award for Best Teenage / Young Adult

Номинация учреждена в 2001 году.

Выбор читателей
Readers ' choice

Номинация учреждена в 2000 году.

За заслуги перед жанром
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Лучший международный роман
Best International Crime Fiction

Номинация для книг, издаваемых в Австралии. Появилась в 2020 году.

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Лучший криминальный роман
Exiles
Джейн Харпер 4.7
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds.

A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family.

Joining the celebrations is federal investigator Aaron Falk. But as he soaks up life in the lush valley, he begins to suspect this tight-knit group may be more fractured than it seems.

Between Falk’s closest friend, a missing mother, and a woman he’s drawn to, dark questions linger as long-ago truths begin to emerge.
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Wake
Шелли Бурр Уэйк 0.0
The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving center of stockyards and sheep stations, years of punishing drought have petrified the land and Nannine has been whittled down to no more than a stoplight, a couple bars, and a police station.

And it has another, more sinister claim to fame: the still-unsolved disappearance of young Evelyn McCreery nineteen years ago.

Mina McCreery's life has been defined by the intense public interest in her sister's case--which is still a hot topic in true-crime chat rooms and on social media. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, Mina lives alone on her family's sunbaked destocked sheep farm.

Enter Lane Holland, a young private investigator who dropped out of the police academy to earn a living cracking cold cases. Before she died, Mina's mother funded a million-dollar reward for anyone who could explain how Evelyn vanished from her bed in the family's farmhouse. The lure of cash has only increased public obsession with Evelyn and Mina--but yielded no answers.

Lane wins Mina's trust when some of his more unconventional methods show promise. But Lane also has darker motivations, and his obsession with the search will ultimately risk both their lives--and yield shocking results.

Compulsively readable, with an unforgettable setting and cast of characters, Wake is a powerful, unsparing story of how trauma ripples outward when people's private tragedies become public property, and how it's never too late for the truth to come out.
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Betrayed: The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history
Сэнди Логан 0.0
The relentlessly fascinating, sometimes hilarious and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who became unwitting drug mules by driving a hashish-laden campervan from Stuttgart to Bombay, then later to Australia, where they were arrested and jailed.

Think of the two most unlikely drug dealers you can imagine and you'll probably come up with the Drug Grannies: Vera Hays and Florice Bessire, who were 59 and 61 respectively in 1977 when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, persuaded them to drive a campervan from Germany to India, then on to Australia.

Little did the women know that Vern and his accomplices had packed two tonnes of hashish into the campervan in what was a creative but ultimately destined-to-fail drug trafficking attempt that would go down in Australian history.

Betrayed is the shocking, real-life inside story of 'Toddie' and 'Beezie' - as they were known - drawn from journalist Sandi Logan's experience reporting on the ground at the time, combined with intensive research, including access to the women's own diaries. It chronicles their wild ride across continents and oceans to our shores, where they were busted by Australian Federal Narcotics Bureau agents, arrested and jailed, including what came after.

Were the Grannies none the wiser to the highly lucrative - and highly illegal - cargo they transported here, as they claimed? Were they set up and betrayed by Vera's nephew? Or could they have been the unlikely masterminds behind the entire plot?
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The Lemon Man
Кейт Брутон 0.0
The Lemon Man is Patrick Callen, a bicycle-riding hitman with mild O.C.D. in Dublin, Ireland whose carefully ordered life is totally upended when he becomes the accidental caretaker of a baby boy. Now he's got to balance his daily to-do list of errands and murders-for-hire with his unexpected domesticity, which impacts him and his work in ways he never expected...and that could get him killed.

A Deadly Pleasures Magazine Top 10 Paperback of 2022 : "If you are a fan of quirky characters, you will love THE LEMON MAN. A very funny & enjoyable read & an accomplished debut novel."

"Caring for an infant while working as a hired killer is not a good mix. The result is a fast-paced crime novel that is both hilarious & hardboiled, its main character both ruthless and oddly sympathetic." ABC News "What fun. Bruton’s darkly funny Irish noir sparkles. If a hitman and a baby aren’t the best pitch in ages, then I don’t know what is." Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author

"Keith Bruton's passion for his hometown of Dublin and for crime fiction shines like a beacon in hiis glorious debut novel ... bringing to mind some of Donald E. Westlake's vintage efforts. His quiet, domestic set pieces are as rewarding, and as exciting in some ways, as his riveting action scenes." Mystery Scene Magazine "Distinctive and captivating, The Lemon Man ’s unique blend of action, humor, and intrigue make it a book you won’t want to miss." Andrew Grant (aka Andrew Child), New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reacher series. "A fine crime at one moment offbeat, with a darkly funny Irish lilt, and the next moment hard and uncompromising." Garry Disher, three time Ned Kelly Award winning author of the Wyatt series. "A fast-paced and gripping crime novel with a cynical and humorous perspective on modern day Dublin... and an oddly sympathetic but disturbing protagonist, a hired assassin, who turns out to be a living, breathing, shopping, cycling psychopath, a male Villanelle (Killing Eve)." Anthony J. Quinn, author of the Inspector Celcius Daly series.

"Featuring a hitman with heart — not to mention a bike, a man bun, and a baby he found on the job — The Lemon Man is wildly entertaining. With its cast of eccentric characters, richly-drawn Dublin setting, and breakneck pacing, this is a novel you won’t soon forget.” Tessa Wegert, author of Dead Wind .
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