The Best Swedish Crime Novel Award (''Bästa svenska kriminalroman'') is a literary prize awarded annually since 1982 by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy. The winners of the award are:

Winners

{, class="wikitable" border="1" class="sortable wikitable" , - bgcolor="#cccccc" !Year !Author !Original title !English title , - , 1982 , Leif G. W. Persson , ''Samhällsbärarna'' , ''The Pillars of Society'' , - , 1983 , , ''Lugnet efter stormen'' , , - , 1984 , , ''Svärtornas år'' , , - , 1985 , Jean Bolinder , ''För älskarns och mördarns skull'' , , - , 1986 , , ''Större än sanningen'' , , - , 1987 , , ''Barnarov'' , , - , 1988 ,

Jan Guillou Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (, ; born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Pe ...

, ''I nationens intresse'' , , - , 1989 , , ''Skyldig utan skuld'' , , - , 1990 , Jean Bolinder , ''Dödisgropen'' , , - , 1991 , Henning Mankell , ''Mördare utan ansikte'' , '' Faceless Killers'' , - , 1992 , , ''Polisen och mordet i stadshuset'' , , - , 1993 , Kerstin Ekman , ''Händelser vid vatten'' , '' Blackwater'' , - , 1994 , Håkan Nesser , ''Borkmanns punkt'' , ''

Borkmann's Point ''Borkmann's Point'' ( sv, Borkmanns punkt ) is a prize-winning crime novel by Swedish writer Håkan Nesser, first published in Sweden in 1994 and translated into English by Laurie Thompson in 2006. Plot The novel is set in the early 1990s when ...

'' , - , 1995 , Henning Mankell , ''Villospår'' , '' Sidetracked'' , - , 1996 , Håkan Nesser , ''Kvinna med födelsemärke'' , '' Woman with Birthmark'' , - , 1997 ,

Åke Edwardson Åke Edwardson (born 10 March 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his ''Inspector Winter'' novels are set. Edwardson h ...

, ''Dans med en ängel'' , ''Death Angels'' , - , 1998 , Inger Frimansson , ''God natt min älskade'' , ''Good Night, My Darling'' , - , 1999 , , ''Guds fruktansvärda frånvaro'' , , - , 2000 , , ''Om hjärtat ännu slår'' , , - , 2001 ,

, ''Himlen är en plats på jorden'' , '' Frozen Tracks'' , - , 2002 ,

Kjell Eriksson 'Kjell Sylve Eriksson (born 1953 in Uppsala) is a Swedish writer, author of the detective chief inspector Ann Lindell crime novels. ''Den upplysta stigen'' (“Shining path”), the first of the Lindell series, was named Best First Novel of 1999 ...

, ''Prinsessan av Burundi'' , ''The Princess of Burundi'' , - , 2003 , Leif G. W. Persson , ''En annan tid, ett annat liv'' , ''Another Time, Another Life'' , - , 2004 ,

Åsa Larsson Åsa Larsson (born 28 June 1966) is a Swedish crime-fiction writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of h ...

, ''Det blod som spillts'' , '' The Blood Spilt'' , - , 2005 , Inger Frimansson , ''Skuggan i vattnet'' , ''The Shadow in the Water'' , - , 2006 , Stieg Larsson , ''Flickan som lekte med elden'' , '' The Girl Who Played with Fire'' , - , 2007 , Håkan Nesser , ''En helt annan historia'' , , - , 2008 , Johan Theorin , ''Nattfåk'' , ''The Darkest Room'' , - , 2009 , Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström , ''Tre sekunder'' , '' Three Seconds'' , - , 2010 , Leif G. W. Persson , ''Den döende detektiven'' , ''The Dying Detective'' , - , 2011 , Arne Dahl , ''Viskleken'' , , - , 2012 ,

, ''Till offer åt Molok'' , '' The Second Deadly Sin'' , - , 2013 , , ''Den osynlige mannen från Salem'' , , - , 2014 , , ''Låt mig ta din hand'' , , - , 2015 , Anders de la Motte , ''Ultimatum'' , ''Ultimatum'' , - , 2016 , Malin Persson Giolito , ''Störst av allt'' , '' Quicksand'' , - , 2017 , Camilla Grebe , ''Husdjuret'' , ''After She's Gone'

, - , 2018 , {{ill, Stina Jackson, sv , ''Silvervägen'' , ''The Silver Road'

, - , 2019 , Camilla Grebe , ''Skuggjägaren'' , ''The Shadow Hunter'' , - , 2020 , Tove Alsterdal , ''Rotvälta'' , , - , 2021 ,

, ''Fädernas missgärningar'' , ''The Sins of our Fathers'' , - , 2022 , Sara Strömberg , ''Skred'' ,

External links

Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
Mystery and detective fiction awards Swedish literary awards 1982 establishments in Sweden Awards established in 1982 sv:Svenska Deckarakademin#Bästa svenska kriminalroman de:Schwedischer Krimipreis