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 Harold may refer to: People * Harold (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Harold (surname), surname in the English language * András Arató, known in meme culture as "Hide the Pain Harold" Arts ...

. The award recognises 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". the winner receives £4,000.Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011
'' The Jewish Chronicle'' called it "British Jewry's top literary award", and '' Jewish World'' said it is a "prestigious literature prize".

Winners

The blue ribbon signifies the winner.

1996

Fiction

Alan Isler Alan Isler (September 12, 1934 – March 29, 2010) was an American novelist and professor. He left his native England for the United States at age 18, served in the US Army from 1954 to 1956, received a doctorate in English Literature from Columbi ...

, ''

The Prince of West End Avenue The Prince of West End Avenue is the first novel by Alan Isler, published in 1994. The novel is a first-person narration by Otto Korner (formerly Körner) and intertwines a comedy about staging Hamlet in a Jewish retirement home, the Emma Lazarus, w ...

'' ( Jonathan Cape)

Non-fiction

Theo Richmond Theo is a given name and a hypocorism. Greek origin Many names beginning with the root "Theo-" derive from the Ancient Greek word ''theos'' (''θεός''), which means god, for example: *Feminine names: Thea, Theodora, Theodosia, Theophania, ...

, ''Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community'' (Jonathan Cape)

1997

* (fiction)

W. G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the g ...

, '' The Emigrants'' * (fiction) Clive Sinclair, ''The Lady with the Laptop'' * (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist""Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive"
/ref> *

Louise Kehoe Louise or Luise may refer to: * Louise (given name) Arts Songs * "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013 * "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929 *"Louise", by Clan o ...

, ''In this Dark House: A Memoir'' *

Silvia Rodgers Silvia Rodgers, Baroness Rodgers, (3 March 1928 – 8 October 2006), , was a German-Jewish-British writer and political activist. She was married to Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank. Early life Rodgers was born in Wedding (Berlin) to ...

, ''Red Saint, Pink Daughter'' *

George Steiner Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the ...

, ''No Passion Spent: Essays 1978–1995''

1998

The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

* Anne Michaels, ''

Fugitive Pieces ''Fugitive Pieces'' is a novel by Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels. The story is divided into two sections. The first centers around Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor while the second involves a man named Ben, the son of two H ...

'' (Bloomsbury) * Esther Freud, ''Gaglow'' (Penguin) * David Grossman, ''The ZigZag Kid'' (Bloomsbury) * Mordecai Richler, '' Barney's Version'' ( Chatto & Windus)

Non-fiction

* Claudia Roden, ''The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York'' *

Leila Berg Leila Berg (12 November 1917 – 17 April 2012) was an English children's author. She was also known as a journalist and a writer on education and children's rights. Berg was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Biography Berg was brought ...

, ''Flickerbook'' (Granta) *

Sally Berkovic Sally may refer to: People * Sally (name), a list of notable people with the name Military * Sally (military), an attack by the defenders of a town or fortress under siege against a besieging force; see sally port *Sally, the Allied reporting ...

, ''Under My Hat'' (Josephs Bookstore) * Jenny Diski, ''Skating to Antarctica'' (Granta)

1999

The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

Dorit Rabinyan Dorit Rabinyan ( he, דורית רביניאן; born September 25, 1972) is an Israeli writer and screenwriter. Biography She was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to an Iranian-Jewish family. She has published three novels, two of which have been wi ...

, ''Persian Brides'' (Canongate) * Jay Rayner, ''Day of Atonement'' (Black Swan) *

Savyon Liebrecht Savyon Liebrecht ( Hebrew: סביון ליברכט; born 13 January 1948) is an Israel author. She was born in Munich, Germany, to Polish Holocaust survivors as Sabine Sosnowski, the eldest of three children. She emigrated to Israel in 1950. Li ...

, ''Apples from the Desert'' (Laki Books) *

Paolo Maurensig Paolo Maurensig (26 March 1943 – 29 May 2021) was an Italian novelist, best known for his book ''Canone inverso'' (1996), a complex tale of a violin and its owners. Biography Maurensig was born in Gorizia, northern Italy. Before becoming a ...

, ''Luneberg Variations'' (Phoenix House)

Non-fiction

Edith Velmans Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and v ...

, ''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 Michael Grant Ignatieff (; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a histo ...

, ''Isaiah Berlin'' ( Chatto & Windus) * Niall Ferguson, ''The World's Banker'', ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

2000

Fiction

Howard Jacobson Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.Ragi, K. R., "Howard Jacobson's ''The Finkler Question'' a ...

, ''The Mighty Walzer'' ( Jonathan Cape) * Nathan Englander, ''For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'' ( Faber & Faber) *

Elena Lappin Elena may refer to: People * Elena (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name * Joan Ignasi Elena (born 1968), Catalan politician * Francine Elena (born 1986), British poet Geography * Elena (town), a town in Velik ...

, ''Foreign Brides'' (Picador) * Bernice Rubens, ''I, Dreyfus'' (Abacus)

Non-fiction

* Wladyslaw Szpilman, '' The Pianist'' (Viking) * Anthony Rudolf, ''The Arithmetic of Mind'' (Bellew Publishing) * Lisa Appignanesi, ''

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'' ( Chatto & Windus) *

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, ''A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939'' (

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print book ...

)

2001

The winners were announced on 30 April 2001. The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

Mona Yahia Mona Yahia (born 1954 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an artist and writer; she publishes novels, stories, short stories and participates in art exhibitions and events. Life and career Mona Yahia was born and raised in Baghdad. She fled with her family to ...

, ''When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad'' (Peter Halban) * Linda Grant, ''When I Lived in Modern Times'' (

Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

) * Lawrence Norfolk, ''In the Shape of a Boar'' ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson) *

Elisabeth Russell Taylor Elisabeth Russell Taylor (née Lewsen; 14 May 1930–1 September 2020) was an English writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction and children's books. Critics acclaimed her "brilliant, dark and unsettling" work, describing it as "mingling the ...

, ''Will Dolores Come to Tea?'' (Arcadia)

Non-fiction

* 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 Naomi or Naomie may refer to: People and biblical figures * Naomi (given name), a female given name and a list of people with the name * Naomi (biblical figure), Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth * Naomi (Romanian singer) (bo ...

, ''Chasing Shadows'' (Viking) *

Louise London Louise Ann London is the author the book '' Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948'' (2000), credited as a scholarly addition to the historical interest in Jewish immigration, and shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2001. She was bor ...

, ''Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948'' (

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambr ...

)

2002

The winners were announced on 2 May 2002. The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

WG Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the g ...

, '' Austerlitz'' ( Hamish Hamilton) * Agnes Desarthe, ''Five Photos of My Wife'' (Flamingo) *

Zvi Jagendorf Zvi Jagendorf (Hebrew צבי יגנדורף; born February 18, 1936, in Vienna, Austria) is an Israeli writer. Together with his parents, Zvi Jagendorf managed to escape Austria to the United Kingdom in 1939. He studied English literature at Oxford ...

, ''Wolfy and the Strudelbakers'' (Dewi Lewis) * Emma Richler, ''Sister Crazy'' (Flamingo)

Non-fiction

* Oliver Sacks, ''Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood'' ( Picador) * John Gross, ''A Double Thread'' ( Chatto & Windus) * Joseph Roth, ''The Wandering Jews'' (

) * Mihail Sebastian, ''Journal 1935-44'' (William Heinemann)

2003

The winners were announced on 8 May 2003. The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

* Zadie Smith, '' The Autograph Man'' (

Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.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

* 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 Roma Ligocka (born Roma Liebling, 13 November 1938 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish writer, and painter. She was born in a Jewish family in Kraków a year before World War II. During the German occupation of Poland, her family was persecuted b ...

, ''The Girl in the Red Coat'' (Sceptre)

2004

The winners were announced on 6 May 2004. The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

* David Grossman, ''Someone to Run With'' (Bloomsbury) * Dannie Abse, ''New & Collected Poems'' (Hutchinson) *

A.B. Yehoshua Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua ( he, אברהם גבריאל (בולי) יהושע; 9 December 1936 – 14 June 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. '' The New York Times'' called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Underlying themes in ...

, ''The Liberated Bride'' (Peter Halban)

Non-fiction

Amos Elon Amos Elon ( he, עמוס אילון, July 4, 1926 – May 25, 2009) was an Israeli journalist and author. Biography Heinrich Sternbach (later Amos Elon) was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in ...

, ''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 Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house, with its headquarters in Ormond House in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It is perhaps best known for publishing Aravind Adiga's debut novel ''The White Tiger (Adiga novel) ...

)

2005

The winners were announced on 17 May 2005. The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

* David Bezmozgis, ''Natasha and Other Stories'' ( Jonathan Cape) * Moris Farhi, ''Young Turk'' (Saqi) *

''The Making of Henry'' ( Jonathan Cape)

Non-fiction

* Amos Oz, '' A Tale of Love and Darkness'' ( Chatto & Windus) * Simon Goldhill, ''The Temple of Jerusalem'' ( Profile Books) *

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier Joanna Olczak-Ronikier (born 12 November 1934) is a Polish writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków. Biography Joanna Olczak was born on 12 November 1934 in Warsaw to a Polish-Jewish family, as a daught ...

, ''In the Garden of Memory'' ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson) * Béla Zsolt, ''Nine Suitcases'' ( Jonathan Cape)

2006

The shortlist comprised: * Imre Kertész, '' Fatelessness'' * Michael Arditti, ''Unity'' (Maia Press) *

Paul Kriwaczek Paul Kriwaczek (30 November 1937 - 2 March 2011) was a British historian and television producer. Life He was born in Vienna on 30 November 1937. He escaped from Nazi Austria to England in 1939. He attended Kilburn Grammar School in London a ...

, ''Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation'' ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson) *

Neill Lochery Neill Lochery (born 1965) is a Scottish author and leading historian on the modern history of Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and journal publications around the world. Lochery is Professor o ...

, ''The View from the Fence, The Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Present to Its Roots'' (Continuum) *

Jean Molla Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

, ''Sobibor'' (Aurora Metro) *

Nicholas Stargardt Nicholas Stargardt (born in 1962) is Professor of History at Oxford University, currently serving as Vice President of Magdalen College. Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, ...

, ''Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis'' ( Jonathan Cape) *

Tamar Yellin Tamar Yellin (born 1963) is an English author and teacher who lives in Yorkshire. Her debut novel, first novel, ''The Genizah at the House of Shepher'', won the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Biography Tamar Yellin was born and raise ...

, ''Genizah at the House of Shepher'' ( Toby Press)

2007

The shortlist was announced on 25 February 2007. *

, ''

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'' (Cape) * Carmen Callil, ''Bad Faith'' (Cape) * Adam LeBor, ''

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'' (

Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...

) * Andrew Miller, ''

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'' ( Heinemann) * Irène Némirovsky, '' Suite Française'' ( Chatto) *

A. B. Yehoshua Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua ( he, אברהם גבריאל (בולי) יהושע; 9 December 1936 – 14 June 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. ''The New York Times'' called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Underlying themes in Ye ...

, ''A Woman in Jerusalem'' (Halban)

2008

The winner was announced on 5 May 2008. The shortlist comprised: * Etgar Keret, ''Missing Kissinger'' ( Chatto and Windus) * Phillippe Grimbert, ''Secret'' (translated by Polly McLean, Portobello Books) *Philip Davis, ''Bernard Malamud'' (

) * Tom Segev, ''1967'' (translated by Jessica Cohen, Abacus)

2009

The shortlist was announced on 31 March 2009. The winner was announced on 6 June 2009.Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2009
/ref> * Fred Wander, ''The Seventh Well'' (

) * Amir Gutfreund, ''The World a Moment Later'' (translated by Jessica Cohen, Toby Press) * Zoë Heller, ''The Believers'' (Fig Tree) *

Ladislaus Löb Ladislaus Löb (8 May 1933 – 2 October 2021) was a writer, translator, Holocaust survivor, scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment and Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He was the au ...

, ''Dealing with Satan'' ( Jonathan Cape) * Denis MacShane, ''Globalising Hatred'' ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson) *

Jackie Wullschlager Jackie or Jacky may refer to: People and fictional characters * Jackie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters named Jackie or Jacky ** Jackie, current ring name of female professional wrestler Jacqueline Moore ** Jackie Lee ...

, ''Chagall: Love and Exile'' ( Allen Lane)

2010

The shortlist was announced on 22 April 2010. The winner was announced on 16 June 2010. *

Adina Hoffman Adina Hoffman (born 1967) is an American writer whose work blends literary and documentary elements. Her books concern, among other things, the "lives and afterlives of people, movies, buildings, books, and certain city streets." Biography Born in ...

, ''My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century'' (

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Univer ...

) * Julia Franck, ''The Blind Side of the Heart'' ( Harvill Secker) * Simon Mawer, ''The Glass Room'' (

Little, Brown Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emil ...

) * Shlomo Sand, ''The Invention of the Jewish People'' (Verso)

2011

The shortlist was announced on 4 April 2011. The winner was announced on 6 June 2011. * David Grossman, '' To the End of the Land'' ( Jonathan Cape) *

, '' The Finkler Question'' (

) *

Edmund de Waal Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or t ...

, '' The Hare with Amber Eyes'' ( Chatto and Windus) *

Eli Amir Eli Amir ( he, אלי עמיר; Arabic:ايلى عمير) (September 26, 1937) is an Iraqi-born Israeli writer and civil servant. He served as director general of the Youth Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency. Biography Amir was born Fuad ...

, ''

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'' ( Halban) * Anthony Julius, '' Trials of the Diaspora'' (

) *

Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Life Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the ...

, ''Visitation'' (translated by Susan Bernofsky, Portobello Books)

2012

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2013

The winner was announced on 27 February 2013. The shortlist comprised:Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013
* Shalom Auslander, ''Hope: A Tragedy'' ( Picador) * Deborah Levy, ''

Swimming Home ''Swimming Home'' is a novel by British writer Deborah Levy, published in 2011. The short novel deals with the experiences of poet Joe Jacobs, when his family vacation is interrupted by a fanatical reader. Critical reception for the novel was gen ...

'' ( And Other Stories) * Amos Oz, ''

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'' ( Chatto and Windus) * Cynthia Ozick, ''Foreign Bodies'' (

) * Stanley Price and Munro Price, ''

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'' ( Notting Hill Editions) *

Bernard Wasserstein Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948 in London) is a British historian. Early life Bernard Wasserstein was born in London on 22 January 1948. Wasserstein's father, Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), born in Frankfurt, was Professor of Clas ...

, ''On the Eve'' ( Profile Books)

2014

The shortlist was announced on 27 November 2013. The winner was announced on 27 February 2014. *

Edith Pearlman Edith Ann Pearlman ('' née'' Grossman; June 26, 1936 – January 1, 2023) was an American short story writer.

, ''Binocular Vision'' (Pushkin Press) * Otto Dov Kulka, ''Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death'' (Allen Lane) * Shani Boianjiu, ''

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid ''The People of Forever Are Not Afraid'' is a 2012 novel by the Israeli writer Shani Boianjiu. Plot ''The People of Forever Are Not Afraid'' tells the story of three young Israeli women - Lea, Avishag and Yael - following them from their high sch ...

'' (Hogarth) * Ben Marcus, ''The Flame Alphabet'' (Granta) * Anouk Markovits, ''I Am Forbidden'' (Hogarth) *

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, ''The Summer My Father Died'' (Telegram-Saqi)

2015

The shortlist was announced on 13 January 2015. The winners - one each for fiction and non-fiction, in a departure from recent tradition since 2005 - were announced on 20 April 2015.

Fiction

Michel Laub Michel Laub (born 1973 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian writer and journalist. Biography Laub graduated in Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1996. He also enrolled in the Journalism at PUC-RS, but did not complete he course. ...

, ''Diary of the Fall'' - Translated by

Margaret Jull Costa Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE, OIH (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coel ...

(Harvill) * Zeruya Shalev, ''Remains of Love'' - Translated by Philip Simpson (Bloomsbury) *

Dror Burstein Dror may refer to: * Dror (name), a surname or given name * Dror-Israel, an educational movement * Dror light machine gun, an Israeli weapon * Habonim Dror Habonim Dror ( he, הַבּוֹנִים דְּרוֹר, "the builders–freedom") is the ...

, ''Netanya'' - Translated by Todd Hasak-Lowy (Dalkey Archive)

Non-fiction

Thomas Harding Thomas Harding (born 1448 in Cambridge, Gloucestershire, England and died at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, May 1532) was a sixteenth-century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532, wa ...

, '' 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

The short list was announced on 22 February 2016. The winner was announced on 14 March 2016. * Nikolaus Wachsmann, ''KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps'' *

Claire Hajaj Clair or Claire may refer to: * Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, ...

, ''Ishmael’s Oranges'' *

, ''J'' *

Zachary Leader Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and did graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University, where he was a ...

, ''The Life of Saul Bellow'' * Alison Pick, ''Between Gods'' *

George Prochnik George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...

, ''The Impossible Exile'' * Dan Stone, ''The Liberation of the Camps''

2017

The shortlist was announced January 2017. The joint winners were announced 23 February 2017. * 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 Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן; born 1982) is an Israeli author.Beckerman, Hannah (March 13, 2016)"Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: 'We Israelis tend to forget that we are a nation of refugees ''The Guardian''. Life Ayelet G ...

, 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

The shortlist announced January 2018. The winner was announced in February. * Michael Frank, ''The Mighty Franks: A Memoir'' * Linda Grant, ''

The Dark Circle ''The Dark Circle'' is the seventh novel by English novelist and journalist Linda Grant. Published in November 2016, it tells the story of tubercular east London twins, Lenny and Miriam Lynskey, sent to convalesce in a post-World War II sanitori ...

'' *

Mya Guarnieri Jaradat Mya may refer to: Brands and product names * Mya (program), an intelligent personal assistant created by Motorola * Mya (TV channel), an Italian Television channel * Midwest Young Artists, a comprehensive youth music program Codes * Burmese ...

, ''The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others'' *

Joanne Limburg Joanne Limburg (born 1970) is a British writer and poet based in Cambridge. She has published three books of poetry for adults, one book of poetry for children, a novel and two books of memoirs. Life Limburg was born in London to parents who w ...

, ''Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations'' *

, ''Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem'' * Laurence Rees, ''The Holocaust: A New History''

2019

The shortlist announced January 2019. The winner was announced in February. * 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 Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, critic, and blogger living in Los Angeles. He is the host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation and author of the novel ''Harry, Revised'' (Bloomsbury, Spring 2008). ''Harry, Rev ...

, ''Memento Park'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

2020

The shortlist announced January 2020. The winner was announced in February. * Linda Grant, ''A Stranger City'' *

Benjamin Balint Benjamin Balint (born 1976) is an American-Israeli author, journalist, educator, and translator. His 2018 book explores the literary legacy of Franz Kafka. Writing career Balint was assistant editor for ''Commentary magazine''. He contributes ...

, ''Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literacy Legacy'' *

, ''Liar'' *

Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro is an American writer, the author of six novels including ''Family History'' (2003), ''Black & White'' (2007) and most recently ''Signal Fires'' (2022) and the best-selling memoirs ''Slow Motion'' (1998), ''Devotion'' (2010), ''Hour ...

, ''Inheritance'' * Gary Shteyngart, ''Lake Success'' * George Szirtes, ''The Photographer at Sixteen'' *

, ''Live a Little''

2021

The winner was announced on March 7, 2021. The shortlist comprised: * Yaniv Iczkovits, '' The Slaughterman's Daughter'' (translated by Orr Scharf; MacLehose Press /

Schocken Books Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman Schocken as Schocken Verlag in Berlin, the company later moved to Palestine and then the U ...

) * Hadley Freeman, ''House of Glass'' (

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News C ...

) *

Goldie Goldbloom Goldie Goldbloom (born 1964) is an Australian Hasidic novelist, essayist and short story writer. She is an LGBT activist and a former board member of Eshel. Early life and education Goldbloom was born in Perth, Western Australia. She is a gra ...

, ''On Division'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) *

Bess Kalb Bess Kalb is an American Emmy Award-nominated writer for the ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' television show and journalist with ''The New Yorker'' magazine. She is the author of the best-selling book ''Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told t ...

, ''Nobody Will Tell You This But Me'' (Little, Brown) * Colum McCann, ''Apeirogon'' (Bloomsbury) *

Ariana Neumann Ariana was a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of the ancient period for a district of wide extent between Central Asia and the Indus River, comprising the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered t ...

, ''When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains'' (

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest pub ...

) *

Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels ''Everything Is Illuminated'' (2002), ''Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' (2005), ''Here I Am (novel), Here I Am'' (2016), and for his non-fict ...

, ''We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast'' ( Hamish Hamilton /

To Be a Man ''To Be a Man: Stories'' is a collection of short stories by the American author Nicole Krauss and published in 2020 by HarperCollins (in the United States) and Bloomsbury Publishing (in the United Kingdom). ''Publishers Weekly ''Publishers W ...

'' (Bloomsbury) *

Nir Baram Nir Baram (Hebrew: ניר ברעם; born June 2, 1976 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli author. Baram studied literature in Tel Aviv University and was an editor in Am Oved publishing house. His novels, ''The Remaker of Dreams'' (2006), ''Good Pe ...

, ''At Night's End'' (translated by Jessica Cohen, Text Publishing) *

, ''Letters to Camondo'' (Chatto & Windus/Vintage Publishing) * Arthur Green, ''Judaism for the World'' (Yale University Press) * Wendy Lower, ''The Ravine'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) *

Eshkol Nevo Eshkol Nevo ( he, אשכול נבו, born 28 February 1971) is an Israeli writer who has published a collection of short stories, five novels and a work of non-fiction. One of his novels, ''Homesick'', was awarded the Book Publishers Association ...

, ''The Last Interview'' (translated by Sondra Silverston, Other Press) * Anne Sebba, ''Ethel Rosenberg'' (St. Martins Press, Orion Books)

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Wingate Literary Prize
at The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation British literary awards Jewish literary awards Awards established in 1977 1977 establishments in the United Kingdom Literary awards by magazines and newspapers