The Festival international du polar de Lyon, or Quais du polar is a festival of
crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...
in print and
film. It has been held annually in
Lyons since 2005.
Prizes
The festival awards several prizes; the readers' prize, the comic thriller prize, the
Prix du Polar Européen, a prize for the best new story and one for the best European short film.
Literary festivals in France
Events in Lyon
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