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The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host Jewish Quarterly and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate.[1] The award recognizes Jewish and non-Jewish writers resident in the UK, British Commonwealth, Europe and Israel who "stimulate an interest in themes of Jewish concern while appealing to the general reader."[2] As of 2011[update] the winner receives £4,000.[1]
The Jewish Chronicle called it "British Jewry's top literary award,"[3] and Jewish World said it is a "prestigious literature prize."[4]
Winners[edit]
David Grossman
Etgar Keret
Zadie Smith
Oliver Sacks
The blue ribbon signifies the winner.
1996[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue (Jonathan Cape) [5]
Non-fiction[edit]
- Theo Richmond, Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community (Jonathan Cape)
1997[edit]
- (fiction) W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants[5]
- (fiction) Clive Sinclair, The Lady with the Laptop
- (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist"[5][6]
- Louise Kehoe, In this Dark House: A Memoir
- Silvia Rodgers, Red Saint, Pink Daughter
- George Steiner, No Passion Spent: Essays 1978–1995
1998[edit]
The shortlists comprised:[5]
Fiction[edit]
- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (Bloomsbury)
- Esther Freud, Gaglow (Penguin)
- David Grossman, The ZigZag Kid (Bloomsbury)
- Mordecai Richler, Barneys Version (Chatto & Windus)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
- Leila Berg, Flickerbook (Granta)
- Sally Berkovic, Under My Hat (Josephs Bookstore)
- Jenny Diski, Skating to Antarctica (Granta)
1999[edit]
The shortlists comprised:[5]
Fiction[edit]
- Dorit Rabinyan, Persian Brides (Canongate)
- Jay Rayner, Day of Atonement (Black Swan)
- Savyon Liebrecht, Apples from the Desert (Laki Books)
- Paolo Maurensig, Luneberg Variations (Phoenix House)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Edith Velmans, Edith's Book: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II (Viking)
- David Hare, Via Dolorosa (Faber & Faber)
- Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin (Chatto & Windus)
- Niall Ferguson, The World's Banker, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2000[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer (Jonathan Cape) [5]
- Nathan Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Faber & Faber)
- Elena Lappin, Foreign Brides (Picador)
- Bernice Rubens, I, Dreyfus (Abacus)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist (Viking)
- Anthony Rudolf, The Arithmetic of Mind (Bellew Publishing)
- Lisa Appignanesi, Losing the Dead (Chatto & Windus)
- David Vital, A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939 (Oxford University Press)
2001[edit]
The winners were announced on 30 April 2001. The shortlists comprised:[7]
Fiction[edit]
- Mona Yahia, When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad (Peter Halban)
- Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times (Granta)
- Lawrence Norfolk, In the Shape of a Boar (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Elisabeth Russell Taylor, Will Dolores Come to Tea? (Arcadia)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Mark Roseman, A Past In Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany (Allen Lane)
- Michael Billig, Rock 'n Roll Jews (Five Leaves)
- Hugo Gryn and Naomi Gryn, Chasing Shadows (Viking)
- Louise London, Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948 (Cambridge University Press)
2002[edit]
The winners were announced on 2 May 2002. The shortlists comprised:[8]
Fiction[edit]
- WG Sebald, Austerlitz (Hamish Hamilton)
- Agnes Desarthe, Five Photos of My Wife (Flamingo)
- Zvi Jagendorf, Wolfy and the Strudelbakers (Dewi Lewis)
- Emma Richler, Sister Crazy (Flamingo)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Picador)
- John Gross,A Double Thread (Chatto & Windus)
- Joseph Roth, The Wandering Jews (Granta)
- Mihail Sebastian, Journal 1935-44 (William Heinemann)
2003[edit]
The winners were announced on 8 May 2003. The shortlists comprised:[9]
Fiction[edit]
- Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man (Penguin Books
- Arnost Lustig, Lovely Green Eyes (Harvill)
- Micheal O’Siadhail, The Gossamer Wall (Bloodaxe)
- Norman Lebrecht, The Song of Names (Review)
- Dannie Abse, The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas (Robson)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Roman Frister, Impossible Love (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Ian Thomson, Primo Levi (Hutchinson)
- Carole Angier, The Double Bond (Viking Penguin)
- Roma Ligocka, The Girl in the Red Coat (Sceptre)
2004[edit]
The winners were announced on 6 May 2004. The shortlists comprised:[10]
Fiction[edit]
- David Grossman, Someone to Run With (Bloomsbury)
- Dannie Abse, New & Collected Poems (Hutchinson)
- A.B. Yehoshua, The Liberated Bride (Peter Halban)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743–1933 (Penguin)
- Mark Glanville, The Goldberg Variations: From Football Hooligan to Opera Singer (Flamingo)
- Stanley Price, Somewhere to Hang My Hat (New Island)
- Igal Sarna, Broken Promises: Israeli Lives (Atlantic Books)
2005[edit]
The winners were announced on 17 May 2005.[4][11] The shortlists comprised:[12]
Fiction[edit]
- David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape)
- Moris Farhi, Young Turk (Saqi)
- Howard Jacobson The Making of Henry (Jonathan Cape)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (Chatto & Windus)
- Simon Goldhill, The Temple of Jerusalem (Profile Books)
- Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, In the Garden of Memory (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Béla Zsolt, Nine Suitcases (Jonathan Cape)
2006[edit]
The shortlist comprised:[13]
- Imre Kertész, Fatelessness
- Michael Arditti, Unity (Maia Press)
- Paul Kriwaczek, Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Neill Lochery, The View from the Fence, The Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Present to Its Roots (Continuum)
- Jean Molla, Sobibor (Aurora Metro)
- Nicholas Stargardt, Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis (Jonathan Cape)
- Tamar Yellin, Genizah at the House of Shepher (Toby Press)
2007[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 25 February 2007.[14]
- Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (Cape)
- Carmen Callil, Bad Faith (Cape)
- Adam LeBor, City of Oranges (Bloomsbury)
- Andrew Miller, The Earl of Petticoat Lane (Heinemann)
- Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française (Chatto)
- A. B. Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem (Halban)
2008[edit]
The winner was announced on 5 May 2008. The shortlist comprised:[15]
- Etgar Keret, Missing Kissinger (Chatto and Windus)
- Phillippe Grimbert, Secret (translated by Polly McLean, Portobello Books)
- Philip Davis, Bernard Malamud (Oxford University Press)
- Tom Segev, 1967 (translated by Jessica Cohen, Abacus)
2009[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 31 March 2009. The winner was announced on 6 June 2009.[2]
- Fred Wander, The Seventh Well (Granta)
- Amir Gutfreund, The World a Moment Later (translated by Jessica Cohen, Toby Press)
- Zoë Heller, The Believers (Fig Tree)
- Ladislaus Löb, Dealing with Satan (Jonathan Cape)
- Denis MacShane, Globalising Hatred (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Jackie Wullschlager, Chagall: Love and Exile (Allen Lane)
2010[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 22 April 2010.[16] The winner was announced on 16 June 2010.[17]
- Adina Hoffman, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale University Press)
- Julia Franck, The Blind Side of the Heart (Harvill Secker)
- Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (Little, Brown)
- Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso)
2011[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 4 April 2011.[3] The winner was announced on 6 June 2011.[1]
- David Grossman, To the End of the Land (Jonathan Cape)
- Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
- Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto and Windus)
- Eli Amir, The Dove Flyer (Halban)
- Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora (Oxford University Press)
- Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation (translated by Susan Bernofsky, Portobello Books)
2012[edit]
- [no award][18]
2013[edit]
The winner was announced on 27 February 2013.[19] The shortlist comprised:[20]
- Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy (Picador)
- Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (And Other Stories)
- Amos Oz, Scenes from Village Life (Chatto and Windus)
- Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies (Atlantic Books)
- Stanley Price and Munro Price, The Road to the Apocalypse (Notting Hill Editions)
- Bernard Wasserstein, On the Eve (Profile Books)
2014[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 27 November 2013.[21] The winner was announced on 27 February 2014.[22]
- Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Pushkin Press)
- Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death (Allen Lane)
- Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth)
- Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet (Granta)
- Anouk Markovits, I Am Forbidden (Hogarth)
- Yudit Kiss, The Summer My Father Died (Telegram-Saqi)
2015[edit]
The shortlist was announced on 13 January 2015.[23] The winners - one each for fiction and non-fiction, in a departure from recent tradition since 2005 - were announced on 20 April 2015.[24]
Fiction[edit]
- Michel Laub, Diary of the Fall - Translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Harvill)
- Zeruya Shalev, Remains of Love - Translated by Philip Simpson (Bloomsbury)
- Dror Burstein, Netanya - Translated by Todd Hasak-Lowy (Dalkey Archive)
Non-fiction[edit]
- Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz (Heinemann)
- Antony Polonsky, Jews in Poland and Russia (Littman Library)
- Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure: A Memoir (Penguin)
- Hanna Krall, Chasing the King of Hearts - Translated by Philip Boehm (Peirene)
2016[edit]
The short list was announced on 22 February 2016.[25] The winner was announced on 14 March 2016.[26]
- Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
- Claire Hajaj, Ishmael’s Oranges
- Howard Jacobson, J
- Zachary Leader, The Life of Saul Bellow
- Alison Pick, Between Gods
- George Prochnik, The Impossible Exile
- Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps
2017[edit]
The shortlist was announced January 2017.[27] The joint winners were announced 23 February 2017.[28]
- Anna Bikont, translated by Alissa Valles, The Crime and the Silence
- David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
- Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated by Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions
- Walter Kempowski, translated by Anthea Bell, All for Nothing
- Philippe Sands, East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
2018[edit]
The shortlist announced January 2018.[29] The winner was announced in February.[30]
- Michael Frank, The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
- Linda Grant, The Dark Circle
- Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others
- Joanne Limburg, Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations
- George Prochnik, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
- Laurence Rees, The Holocaust: A New History
2019[edit]
The shortlist announced January 2019. The winner was announced in February.[31]
- Françoise Frenkel, No Place to Lay One's Head
- Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists (Tinder Press/Headline)
- Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry (Granta)
- Dara Horn, Eternal Life (W.W. Norton &Co Ltd)
- Raphael Jerusalmy, Evacuation (Text Publishing) (translated by Penny Hueston)
- Mark Sarvas, Memento Park (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
2020[edit]
The shortlist announced January 2020.[32] The winner was announced in February.[33]
- Linda Grant, A Stranger City
- Benjamin Balint, Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literacy Legacy
- Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Liar
- Dani Shapiro, Inheritance
- Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success
- George Szirtes, The Photographer at Sixteen
- Howard Jacobson, Live a Little
2021[edit]
The winner was announced on March 7, 2021. The shortlist comprised:[34]
- Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter (translated by Orr Scharf; MacLehose Press / Schocken Books)
- Hadley Freeman, House of Glass (HarperCollins)
- Goldie Goldbloom, On Division (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me (Little, Brown)
- Colum McCann, Apeirogon (Bloomsbury)
- Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains (Simon & Schuster)
- Jonathan Safran Foer, We are the Weather (Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Books)
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011 Archived 25 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2009
- ^ a b Jennifer Lipman (4 April 2011). "Howard Jacobson shortlisted for 'Jewish Booker' prize". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ a b Leslie Bunder (4 May 2006). "Holocaust-based novel wins prestigious literary prize". Jewish World. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f "Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive"
- ^ "News in Brief:Literary prize withdrawn for writer's 'work of fiction'". The Guardian. 29 April 2000. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2001"
- ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2002"
- ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2003"
- ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2004"
- ^ "Winners of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for 2005"
- ^ "The Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2005 Shortlists announcement". Jewish Quarterly. 23 March 2005. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ "Winner of the 2006 Wingate Prize"
- ^ "Winner of the 2007 Wingate Literary Prize"
- ^ "Winner of the 2008 Wingate Literary Prize"
- ^ "JQ-Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. 22 April 2010. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ Alexandra Coghlan (17 June 2010). "Lived resistance: Adina Hoffman wins 2010 JQ-Wingate Prize". The New Statesman. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ "From 2013, the prize will be awarded in February to enable the prize to coincide with Jewish Book Week.""Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The previous ceremony was in June 2011.
- ^ Philip Maughan (28 February 2013). "Shalom Auslander wins 2013 Wingate Prize". The New Statesman. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. 27 November 2013. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ Jon Stock (27 February 2014). "Otto Dov Kulka wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
- ^ Josh Jackman (13 January 2015). "Authors from across the globe compete on JQ-Wingate prize shortlist". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ^ Jackman, Josh (20 April 2015). "Michel Laub and Thomas Harding win JQ-Wingate Prize for books on the Holocaust". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ^ "Howard Jacobson among top authors on Jewish Quarterly's Wingate Prize shortlist". Jewish News. 22 February 2016.
- ^ Fisher, Ben (14 March 2016). "Nikolaus Wachsmann Wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize". Jewish Quarterly.
- ^ Katherine Cowdrey (12 January 2017). "Philippe Sands shortlisted for 2017's Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ Benedicte Page (23 February 2017). "Sands and Gundar-Goshen win JQ Wingate Literary Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ Alastair Thomas (11 January 2018). "Six authors to compete for JQ Wingate prize". The JC. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ Daniel Sugarman (15 February 2018). "Michael Frank wins JQ Wingate literary prize". The JC. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ^ "Bookseller Frenkel's Holocaust memoir wins JQ Wingate Literary Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "2020 Wingate Literary Prize shortlist announced". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Linda Grant wins 2020 Wingate Literary Prize with her novel A Stranger City". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Yaniv Iczkovits Wins 2021 Wingate Literary Prize". Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
External links[edit]
- Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
- Wingate Literary Prize at The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation