{"id":6713,"date":"2024-09-24T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quaisdupolar.preprod-14h28.com\/the-festival\/literary-prizes\/claude-mesplede-prize\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T08:04:12","slug":"claude-mesplede-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/quaisdupolar.com\/en\/the-festival\/literary-prizes\/claude-mesplede-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The Claude Mespl\u00e8de Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Claude Mespl\u00e8de was an editor, critic, historian, an enlightened amateur and passionate about crime fiction. He was also a friend and traveling companion of Quais du Polar, having taken part in its birth and all its developments. He has carried out irreplaceable work to disseminate and transmit a culture of crime fiction, through numerous critical texts, articles, essays, studies, collective works, reviews, conferences and prefaces, as well as his monumental Dictionary of Police Literature. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is to pay tribute to him and extend his work that we have created the <\/span>Claude Mespl\u00e8de \/ Quais du Polar Award for non-fiction books on crime<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each year, the award is given to a work that contributes to a better understanding of the polar genre, as an essay, historical work, correspondence, document, survey, translation, first edition of complete or unpublished works, new translation or academic work. Audiovisual works are also eligible.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years ago, \u201cwe\u201d were whispering that Claude Mespl\u00e8de could well receive the medal of arts and letters. And since \u201cI\u201d had been asked for my opinion on the matter before taking steps relating to this type of circumstance, I had indicated that Claude did not want a medal of any kind. He had already refused a job offer despite his 40 years of work at Air France! <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

What Claude would have liked was the Paul F\u00e9val award for popular literature. But this award is only awarded to authors who write popular novels. He wrote ABOUT popular novels and therefore did not fall into this category. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Also see the birth, thanks to Quais du Polar whom I thank very sincerely, an award bearing the name of Claude Mespl\u00e8de which will reward a choice of: essay, historical work, correspondence, document, investigation, translation, first edition of complete or unpublished works, new translations or even academic and university works\u2026 it\u2019s huge!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

And it is ultimately, by honoring his memory, a nice reversal of fate. Claude would have been very proud that an award bore his name and surely a little amazed at such an honor. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

And those who plan to write about the work of Paul F\u00e9val get to work very quickly. You never know\u2026\u201d \u2013 Ida Mespl\u00e8de <\/span><\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In previous editions, the prize was awarded to <\/span>Manchette \u2013 Lettres du mauvais temps \u2013 Correspondance 1977-1995<\/i><\/b> published by \u00c9ditions La Table Ronde (2020), The review <\/span>ALIBI <\/i><\/b>(2021) and <\/span>La Ville de plomb<\/i><\/b>, reissue by Jean Meckert directed by St\u00e9fanie Delestr\u00e9 and Herv\u00e9 Delouche (2022), <\/span>Romans noirs<\/i><\/b>, Horace McCoy, Quarto collection, translated by Michael Belano, Sabine Berritz, Jacques-Laurent Bost, Marcel Duhamel, Max Roth, Claude Simonnet and France-Marie Watkins and revised by Michael Belano, prefaced by Beno\u00eet Tadi\u00e9 (\u00c9ditions Gallimard) (2023) , Natacha Levet for Le Roman noir, une histoire fran\u00e7aise <\/i><\/b><\/span>(2024),\u00a0Claire Caland and Sandrine Kerion for Histoire du polar<\/strong> (2025)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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