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Edgar Awards

literary award for work in the crime genre
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Edgar Awards

Summary

Edgar Awards is a class of award[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of class_of_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (232 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Edgar Awards is in the country of United States[3].
  • Edgar Awards's instance of is recorded as class of award[4].
  • Edgar Awards's instance of is recorded as radio drama award[5].
  • Edgar Allan Poe is named after Edgar Awards[6].
  • Edgar Awards's IMDb ID is recorded as ev0000219[7].
  • Edgar Awards's Commons category is recorded as Edgar Award winners[8].
  • Edgar Awards's has part is recorded as Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel[9].
  • Edgar Awards's has part is recorded as Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel[10].
  • Edgar Awards's has part is recorded as Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story[11].
  • +1946-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Edgar Awards[12].
  • Edgar Awards's start time is recorded as +1955-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Edgar Awards's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01w213[14].
  • Edgar Awards's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03zbv3l[15].
  • Edgar Awards's official website is recorded as http://theedgars.com[16].
  • Edgar Awards's official website is recorded as https://edgarawards.com/[17].
  • Edgar Awards's sponsor is recorded as Mystery Writers of America[18].
  • Edgar Awards's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Edgar Awards[19].
  • Edgar Awards's conferred by is recorded as Mystery Writers of America[20].
  • Edgar Awards's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Edgar'}[21].
  • Edgar Awards's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Edgar Awards'}[22].
  • Edgar Awards's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Category:Edgar Award winners[23].
  • Edgar Awards's Treccani ID is recorded as edgar-allan-poe-award[24].
  • Edgar Awards's domain name is recorded as theedgars.com[25].

Body

Geography

Edgar Awards is in the country of United States[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include class of award[4] and radio drama award[5].

History and Context

+1946-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Edgar Awards[12]. Edgar Allan Poe is named after it[6].

Why It Matters

Edgar Awards ranks in the top 4% of class_of_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (232 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Alfred Hitchcock Anne Perry Anthony Perkins Billy Bob Thornton Blake Edwards Charles Addams Christopher McQuarrie Christopher Nolan Costa-Gavras Curtis Hanson Edgar Allan Poe Gore Vidal Guy Ritchie Harlan Ellison Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri Verneuil James Ellroy Jean-Pierre Jeunet John Green Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Semprún Ken Follett Patricia Highsmith Quentin Tarantino Richard Matheson Rick Riordan Roald Dahl Robert Benton Robert Towne Shirley Jackson

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . theedgars.com. theedgars.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . theedgars.com. theedgars.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . domains.wikibase.cloud. Retrieved . domains.wikibase.cloud. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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