Draft:High Calibre Award

High Calibre Award is a literary award awarded since 2004 by "The Corpse in the Closet" Association of Crime and Sensation Lovers for the best Polish-language crime or thriller novel. Novels published in the previous year may be nominated for the award the following year.

The founders of the chapter are: Artur Gorski, Marcin Baran, Witold Beres, Piotr Bratkowski, Irek Grin, Marcin Swietlicki

High Calibre Honorary Award and High Calibre Readers' Award are also at the same time granted.

High Calibre Readers' Award
Previous winners of the awards are:


 * 2004 – Marek Krajewski za powieść Koniec swiata w Breslau
 * 2005 – Paweł Jaszczuk, Foresta Umbra
 * 2006 – Marek Harny, Pismak
 * 2007 – Marcin Swietlicki, Dwanaście
 * 2008 – Zygmunt Mioloszewski, Uwikłanie/Entanglement
 * 2009 – Mariusz Czubaj, 21:37
 * 2010 – Joanna Jodelka, Polichromia
 * 2011 – Gaja Grzegorzewska, Topielica
 * 2012 – Zygmunt Miloszewski, Ziarno prawdy/Grain of Truth
 * 2013 – Marta Guzowska, Ofiara Polikseny
 * 2014 – Marcin Wronski, Pogrom w przyszły wtorek
 * 2015 – Wojciech Chmielarz, Przejęcie
 * 2016 – Jakub Szamalek, Czytanie z kości
 * 2017 – Mariusz Czubaj, R.I.P.
 * 2018 – Ryszard Cwirlej, Tylko umarli wiedzą
 * 2019 – Robert Malecki, Skaza
 * 2020 – Jedrzej Pasierski, Roztopy
 * 2021 – Anna Kantoch, Wiosna zaginionych
 * 2022 – Grzegorz Dziedzic, Żadnych bogów, żadnych panów
 * 2023 – Marek Stelar, Krzywda

High Calibre Readers' Award
High Calibre Honorary Award goes to Polish or foreign authors whom the organizer considers to be outstanding creators of the genre. The winners so far are:


 * 2005 – Aleksandra Marinina oraz Boris Akunin
 * 2006 – Joanna Chmielewska oraz Jeffery Deaver
 * 2007 – Marek Krajewski oraz Leonid Józefowicz
 * 2008 – Tatiana Polakowa
 * 2010 – Jo Nesbø
 * 2011 – Maj Sjöwall
 * 2012 – Anne Holt oraz Kathy Reichs
 * 2013 – Walter Mosley
 * 2014 – Henning Mankell
 * 2015 – Håkan Nesser
 * 2016 – Tess Gerritsen, Pierre Lemaitre oraz Peter Robinson
 * 2018 – Arnaldur Indriðason
 * 2019 – Bernard Minier
 * 2020 – Zygmunt Miloszewski

High Calibre Honorary Award
Since 2012, High Calibre Readers' Award has also been awarded, the winners of which are:


 * 2012 – Jakub Szamalek, When Atena looks away.
 * 2013 – Marcin Wronski, Winged Coffin
 * 2014 – Marcin Wronski, Pogrom next Tuesday
 * 2015 – Katarzyna Bonda, Pochłaniacz
 * 2016 – Remigiusz Mroz, Cassation
 * 2017 – Ryszard Cwirlej, Slippery Business
 * 2018 – Ryszard Cwirlej, Only the dead know
 * 2019 – Wojciech Chmielarz, Żmijowisko
 * 2020 – Robert Malecki, Wada
 * 2021 – Tomasz Duszynski, Glatz. God's Country
 * 2022 – Joanna Opiat-Bojarska, They
 * 2023 – Maciej Siembieda, Katharsis

Special Award named after Janina Paradowska
Funded in 2017 by the 'Wold Makes Sense' Foundation to honor the memory of the late Janina Paradowska, long-time chairwoman of the High Calibre Award Chapter.


 * 2017 – Bartosz Szczygielski, Aorta
 * 2018 – Anna Kantoch, Faith
 * 2019 – Igor Brejdygant, Rysa
 * 2020 – Ida Zmiejewska, Warszawianka
 * 2021 – Olgierd Hurka, Birthmark
 * 2022 – Anna Rozenberg, Death masks
 * 2023 – Anna Potyra, Pact