The Petrona Award was established to celebrate the work of Maxine Clarke, one of the first online crime fiction reviewers and bloggers, who died in December 2012. Maxine, whose online persona and blog was called Petrona, was passionate about translated crime fiction, but in particular that from the Scandinavian countries. This year's winner of best translated Scandinavian crime novel is Dead Men Dancing by Jógvan Isaksen translated from the Faroese by Marita Thomsen and published by Norvik Press. This is only Isaksen’s second novel to be translated into English following Walpurgis Tide.
Other titles on the 2024 shortlist included:
- Anne Mette Hancock - The Collector tr. Tara F Chace (Denmark, Swift Press)
- Jørn Lier Horst - Snow Fall tr. Anne Bruce (Norway, Michael Joseph)
- Arnaldur Indriðason - The Girl by the Bridge tr. Philip Roughton (Iceland, Harvill Secker)
- Åsa Larsson - The Sins of our Fathers tr. Frank Perry (Sweden, MacLehose Press)
- Yrsa Sigurðardottir - The Prey tr. Victoria Cribb (Iceland, Hodder & Stoughton)
