The winning author and translator receives an ornamental Dagger at an award ceremony held annually.
Until 2005, translated crime novels were eligible to be nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger.
[1] Until 2008 the International Dagger was named for its sponsor, the Duncan Lawrie Private Bank.
In 2013, the Dagger was shared for the first time between two novels, Alex by Pierre Lemaitre and The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas.
In 2014 the CWA awarded it to The Siege by Arturo Perez-Reverte translated by Frank Wynne.