Internationally acclaimed Galway crime author Ken Bruen has won Le Grand Prix De La Littérature Policière 2009 for the best non-French language crime novel.
Mr Bruen won the award for his novel Priest and he now joins the ranks of such other celebrated crime authors as Elmore Leonard, PD James, Thomas Harris, James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, and Ian Rankin, who have also won the award.
The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière is a French literary prize founded in 1948 by author and literary critic Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe. It is the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France. Two prizes are awarded annually to the best French novel and to the best international crime novel published in that year.
