The Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation is an award given by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy (Svenska Deckarakademin) for the best crime novel in translation . It is one of the most prestigious international crime-writing awards.
It was called The Martin Beck Award between 1996 and 2009, named after Martin Beck, a fictional Swedish police detective who is the main character in a series of ten novels by Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020) and Per Wahlöö (1926–1975).[1] [2][3]