Wingate Literary PrizeShortlist

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Other Names: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize (-2005), JQ Wingate Prize, Wingate Prize, Wingate Prize, Jewish Quarterly
140 Works 53,517 Books 2,155 Reviews ½ 3.8
JQ Wingate Prize is the official name of the award. Previously called "Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize" (it was renamed in 2011).

Two awards per year from 1996-2005 (fiction and show more nonfiction), except 1997 which had some shared awards. 2006 onward present only one award, with a few exceptions.

JQ Wingate Prize Shortlist show less
Stages:
All, Winner (44), Shortlist (140), Longlist (25)
Categories:
All, Fiction (4), Non-Fiction (8), No Category (128)
Years:
All, 2024 (6), 2023 (7), 2022 (6), 2021 (6), 2020 (6), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (3), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (3), 2009 (5), 2008 (3), 2007 (5), 2006 (6), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (8), 2002 (6), 2001 (6), 2000 (6), 1999 (6), 1998 (6)
Announced:
March 13: Winner2024 Recent
January 17: Shortlist2024 Recent
November 2023: Longlist2024 Recent

Shortlist 140

WorkCategoryYear
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank2024
The Dissident: A Novel by Paul Goldberg2024
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm2024
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken2024
Your Hearts, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman2024
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty2024
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp by Simon Parkin2023
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories by Omer Friedlander2023
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda Kinstler2023
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid2023
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk2023
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin2023
Aan het einde van de nacht by Nir Baram2022
Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal2022
Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love by Arthur Green2022
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower2022
L'ultima intervista by Eshkol Nevo2022
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba2022
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer2021
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman2021
On Division by Goldie Goldbloom2021
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story by Bess Kalb2021
Apeirogon by Colum McCann2021
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann2021
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint2020
The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen2020
Live a Little: A Novel by Howard Jacobson2020
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro2020
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart2020
The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter by George Szirtes2020
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin2019
Asymmetry: A Novel by Lisa Halliday2019
Eternal Life: A Novel by Dara Horn2019
Evacuation by Raphaël Jérusalmy2019
Memento Park by Mark Sarvas2019
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant2018
The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others by Mya Guarnieri Jaradat2018
Small pieces : a book of lamentations by Joanne Limburg2018
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik2018
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees2018
All for Nothing by Walter KempowskiFiction2017
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David CesaraniNon-Fiction2017
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont2017
J by Howard JacobsonFiction2016
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 by Zachary LeaderNon-Fiction2016
Between Gods by Alison PickNon-Fiction2016
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George ProchnikNon-Fiction2016
The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Dan StoneNon-Fiction2016
Ishmael's Oranges by Claire Hajaj2016
Netanya (Hebrew Literature) by Dror BursteinFiction2015
The Remains of Love by Zeruya ShalevFiction2015
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna KrallNon-Fiction2015
The Jews in Poland and Russia, Vol. 3: 1914 to 2008 by Antony PolonskyNon-Fiction2015
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary ShteyngartNon-Fiction2015
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu2014
The Summer My Father Died by dit Kiss2014
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus2014
I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits2014
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman2014
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy2013
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz2013
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick2013
The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way by Stanley Price2013
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein2013
The Dove Flyer by Eli Amir2011
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal2011
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck2011
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson2011
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius2011
The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck2010
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer2010
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand2010
The World a Moment Later by Amir Gutfreund2009
The Believers by Zoë Heller2009
Sopimus saatanan kanssa by Ladislaus Löb2009
Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism by Denis MacShane2009
Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager2009
Memory and Writing from Wordsworth to Lawrence by Philip Davis2008
Memory by Philippe Grimbert2008
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev2008
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen Callil2007
City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa by Adam LeBor2007
The Earl of Petticoat Lane by Andrew Miller2007
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky2007
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua2007
Unity by Michael Arditti2006
Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation by Paul Kriwaczek2006
The View from the Fence: The Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Present to Its Roots by Neill Lochery2006
Sobibor by Jean Molla2006
Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt2006
The Genizah at the House of Shepher: A Novel by Tamar Yellin2006
Young Turk by Moris Farhi2005
The Temple of Jerusalem by Simon Goldhill2005
The Making of Henry by Howard Jacobson2005
In de tuin van het geheugen by Joanna Olczak-Ronikier2005
Nine Suitcases: A Memoir by Bela Zsolt2005
New and Collected Poems by Dannie Abse2004
The Goldberg Variations by Michel Bussi2004
Somewhere to Hang My Hat by Stanley Price2004
The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle: Israeli Lives by Igal Sarna2004
The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua2004
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas by Dannie Abse2003
The Double Bond: The Life of Primo Levi by Carole Angier2003
Impossible Love: Ascher Levy’s Longing for Germany by Roman Frister2003
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht2003
The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka2003
Lovely Green Eyes by Arnošt Lustig2003
The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust by Michael O'Siadhail2003
Primo Levi: A Life by Ian Thomson2003
Five Photos of My Wife by Agnès Desarthe2002
A Double Thread: Growing Up English and Jewish in London by John Gross2002
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf2002
Sister Crazy by Emma Richler2002
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth2002
Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian2002
Rock 'n' Roll Jews by Michael Billig2001
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant2001
Chasing Shadows by Hugo Gryn2001
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust by Louise London2001
In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk2001
Will Dolores Come to Tea? by Elisabeth Russell-Taylor2001
Losing the Dead by Lisa Appignanesi2000
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander2000
Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin2000
I, Dreyfus by Bernice Rubens2000
The Arithmetic of Memory by Anthony Rudolf2000
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 by David Vital2000
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1848-1999 by Niall Ferguson1999
Via Dolorosa and When Shall We Live by David Hare1999
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff1999
Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories by Savyon Liebrecht1999
The Luneburg Variation by Paolo Maurensig1999
Day of Atonement by Jay Rayner1999
Flickerbook: An Autobiography by Leila Berg1998
Under my hat by Sally Berkovic1998
Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World by Jenny Diski1998
Gaglow by Esther Freud1998
The Zigzag Kid by David Grossman1998
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler1998

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JQ Wingate Prize is the official name of the award. Previously called "Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize" (it was renamed in 2011).

Two awards per year from 1996-2005 (fiction and nonfiction), except 1997 which had some shared awards. 2006 onward present only one award, with a few exceptions.

JQ Wingate Prize Shortlist (English, Member-written)
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. 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."

JQ Wingate Prize (English, Member-written)

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