Editing Colin Dexter (section)

==Awards and honours==
Dexter received several [[Crime Writers' Association]] awards: two [[Silver Dagger (award)|Silver Daggers]] for ''[[Service of All the Dead]]'' in 1979 and ''[[The Dead of Jericho]]'' in 1981; two [[Gold Dagger]]s for ''[[The Wench is Dead]]'' in 1989 and ''[[The Way Through the Woods]]'' in 1992; and a [[Cartier Diamond Dagger]] for lifetime achievement in 1997.<ref name="strandmag.com"/> In 1996, Dexter received a [[Macavity Awards|Macavity Award]] for his short story "Evans Tries an O-Level". In 1980, he was elected a member of the by-invitation-only [[Detection Club]].<ref name="Independent">{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-dexter-obituary-inspector-morse-oxford-whodunit-crime-writer-a7642411.html |title=Colin Dexter obituary: Inspector Morse creator and one of the great whodunnit men |first=Peter |last=Guttridge |newspaper=The Independent|location=London |date=21 March 2017 |access-date=3 November 2020}}</ref> In 2005 Dexter became a Fellow by Special Election of [[St Cross College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Colin Dexter OBE |url=http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/about-st-cross/news/colin-dexter-obe|publisher=St Cross College |access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322111929/http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/about-st-cross/news/colin-dexter-obe|archive-date=22 March 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the [[2000 Birthday Honours]] Dexter was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] for services to literature. In 2001 he was awarded the [[Freedom of the City]] of Oxford. In September 2011, the [[University of Lincoln]] awarded Dexter an honorary [[Doctor of Letters]] degree.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2011/08/405.asp |title=Inspector Morse creator among leading lights to be honoured at Lincoln graduation |publisher=University of Lincoln |first=Thirzah |last=Wildman |access-date=3 November 2020 |date=31 August 2011 |archive-date=15 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715104203/https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2011/08/405.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Colin Dexter | publisher=Stamford Civic Society| url=https://www.stamfordcivicsociety.org.uk/colin-dexter.html#:~:text=In%20September%202011%2C%20the%20University,self%2Deffacing%20man%20had%20achieved. | access-date=23 March 2024}}</ref>