Le Point European Polar Prize recognizes each year a crime fiction book written by a French or European author.
Since its creation in 2003, it has crowned Laura Grimaldi for La Faute (2003), Bill James for Protection (2004), Laura Wilson for L’Amant anglais (2005), Giancarlo de Cataldo for Romanzo Criminale (2006), John Harvey for De Cendre et d’os (2007), Arnaldur Indridason for L’Homme du lac (2008), Philip Kerr for La mort entre autres (2009), Pierre Lemaitre for Cadres noirs (2010), Hugues Declan for Coup de Sang (2011), Victor Del Árbol for La Tristesse du Samouraï (2012), Petros Markaris for Liquidations à la grecque (2013), Hervé Le Corre for Après la guerre (2014), Sascha Arango for La vérité et autres mensonges (2015), Olivier Norek for Surtensions (2016), Hannelore Cayre for La Daronne (2017), Malin Persson Giolito for Rien de plus grand (2018), Tim Willocks for La Mort selon Turner (2019), Abir Mukherjee for L’attaque du Calcutta-Darjeeling (2020), Jurica Pavicic for L’eau rouge (2021), Victor Guilbert pour Terra Nullius (2022), Jacky Schwartzmann for Shit! (2023) and Davide Longo for L’Affaire Bramard (2024).
