The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host ''

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'' and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate. 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
''

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'' 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, '' The Prince of West End Avenue'' ( Jonathan Cape)

Non-fiction

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

1997

* (fiction) W. G. Sebald, '' The Emigrants'' * (fiction) Clive Sinclair, ''The Lady with the Laptop'' * (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist""Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive"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, ''In this Dark House: A Memoir'' * Silvia Rodgers, ''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 Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, t ...

, '' Fugitive Pieces'' (Bloomsbury) *

Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Early life and training Born in London, Freud is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and painter Lucian Freud. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. ...

, ''Gaglow'' (Penguin) *

David Grossman David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. Biography David Grossman was born i ...

, ''The ZigZag Kid'' (Bloomsbury) *

Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and '' Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel '' St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ...

, '' Barney's Version'' ( Chatto & Windus)

Non-fiction

Claudia Roden Claudia Roden (née Douek; born 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/ Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including ''A Book of Middle Eastern Food'' ...

, ''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 Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years. Diski was educated a ...

, ''Skating to Antarctica'' (Granta)

1999

The shortlists comprised:

Fiction

* Dorit Rabinyan, ''Persian Brides'' (Canongate) *

Jay Rayner Jason Matthew Rayner (born 14 September 1966) is an English journalist and food critic. Early life Jason Matthew Rayner was born on 14 September 1966. He is the younger son of Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner. His family is Jewish. H ...

, ''Day of Atonement'' (Black Swan) * Savyon Liebrecht, ''Apples from the Desert'' (Laki Books) * Paolo Maurensig, ''Luneberg Variations'' (Phoenix House)

Non-fiction

* 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'' (

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) *

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 Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
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, ''The World's Banker'', (

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)

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'' as ...

, ''The Mighty Walzer'' ( Jonathan Cape) *

Nathan Englander Nathan Englander (born 1970) is an American short story writer and novelist. His debut short story collection, ''For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,'' was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1999. His second collection, ''What We Talk About When We ...

, ''For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'' (

) * Elena Lappin, ''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 Lisa Appignanesi (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. Until 2021, she was the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a former President of English PEN ...

, '' Losing the Dead'' ( Chatto & Windus) * David Vital, ''A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939'' (

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)

2001

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

Fiction

* Mona Yahia, ''When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad'' (Peter Halban) *

Linda Grant Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist. Early life Linda Grant was born in Liverpool. She was the oldest child of Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing products, and Rose Haft; both p ...

, ''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 Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. Biography Though born in London, Norfolk lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read Engli ...

, ''In the Shape of a Boar'' (

) * Elisabeth Russell Taylor, ''Will Dolores Come to Tea?'' (Arcadia)

Non-fiction

Mark Roseman Mark Roseman (born 1958) is an English historian of modern Europe with particular interest in The Holocaust. He received his B.A. at Christ's College, Cambridge and his PhD at the University of Warwick. As of 2007 he holds the Pat M. G ...

, ''A Past In Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany'' (Allen Lane) *

Michael Billig Michael Billig (born 1947) is a British academic. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, working principally in contemporary social psychology although much of his work crosses disciplinary boundaries in the socia ...

, ''Rock 'n Roll Jews'' (Five Leaves) *

Hugo Gryn Hugo Gabriel Gryn (pronouned ''green'') (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996) was a British Reform rabbi, a national broadcaster and a leading voice in interfaith dialogue. Hugo Gryn was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the market town of Be ...

and Naomi Gryn, ''Chasing Shadows'' (Viking) * Louise London, ''Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948'' (

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)

2002

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

Fiction

* WG Sebald, ''

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'' ( Hamish Hamilton) *

Agnes Desarthe Agnes or Agness may refer to: People *Agnes (name), the given name, and a list of people named Agnes or Agness * Wilfrid Marcel Agnès (1920–2008), Canadian diplomat Places * Agnes, Georgia, United States, a ghost town *Agnes, Missouri, United ...

, ''Five Photos of My Wife'' (Flamingo) * Zvi Jagendorf, ''Wolfy and the Strudelbakers'' (Dewi Lewis) * Emma Richler, ''Sister Crazy'' (Flamingo)

Non-fiction

Oliver Sacks Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the Uni ...

, ''Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood'' (

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) * John Gross, ''A Double Thread'' ( Chatto & Windus) *

Joseph Roth Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga '' Radetzky March'' (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life '' Job'' ...

, ''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 Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...

, '' The Autograph Man'' (

Micheal O'Siadhail Micheal O'Siadhail ( ga, Mícheál Ó Siadhail ; born 12 January 1947) is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature. Early life Micheal O'Siadhail was born into ...

, ''The Gossamer Wall'' (Bloodaxe) *

Norman Lebrecht Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948) is a British music journalist and author who specializes in classical music. He is best known as the owner of the classical music blog, ''Slipped Disc'', where he frequently publishes articles. Unlike other ...

, ''The Song of Names'' (Review) *

Dannie Abse Daniel Abse CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the young ...

, ''The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas'' (Robson)

Non-fiction

Sebastian Haffner Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not on ...

, ''Defying Hitler: A Memoir'' (

) *

Roman Frister Roman Frister (17 January 1928 – 9 February 2015) wrote '' The Cap: The Price of a Life'', an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists. Frister spent time in: *the Cracow detent ...

, ''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

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

Fiction

, ''Someone to Run With'' (Bloomsbury) *

, ''New & Collected Poems'' (Hutchinson) * A.B. Yehoshua, ''The Liberated Bride'' (Peter Halban)

Non-fiction

* 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 Stanley Price (December 31, 1892July 13, 1955) was an American film supporting actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1922 and 1956. He was a charter member of the Screen Actors Guild. Career Price was an actor whose artistic career sp ...

, ''Somewhere to Hang My Hat'' (New Island) * Igal Sarna, ''Broken Promises: Israeli Lives'' (

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)

2005

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

Fiction

* David Bezmozgis, ''Natasha and Other Stories'' ( Jonathan Cape) *

Moris Farhi Musa Moris Farhi MBE (5 July 1935 – 5 March 2019)Tessler, Gloria"Obituary: Musa Moris Farhi MBE" ''Jewish Chronicle'', 2 May 2019. was a Turkish author who was vice-president of International PEN from 2001 to his death in 2019. Profile Farhi ...

, ''Young Turk'' (Saqi) *

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

Non-fiction

Amos Oz Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...

, ''

A Tale of Love and Darkness ''A Tale of Love and Darkness'' ( he, סיפור על אהבה וחושך ''Sipur al ahava ve choshech'') is a memoir by the Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002. The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a m ...

'' ( Chatto & Windus) * Simon Goldhill, ''The Temple of Jerusalem'' (

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) *

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'' (

) *

Béla Zsolt Béla Zsolt (born as Béla Steiner, 8 January 1895 – 6 February 1949) was a Hungarian radical socialist journalist and politician. He wrote one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, ''Nine Suitcases'' (''Kilenc koffer'' in Hungarian). Tibor Fisc ...

, ''Nine Suitcases'' ( Jonathan Cape)

2006

The shortlist comprised: *

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

, ''

Fatelessness ''Fateless'' or ''Fatelessness'' ( hu, Sorstalanság, ) is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1960 and 1973 and first published in 1975. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story about a 14- ...

'' *

Michael Arditti Michael Arditti is an English writer. He has written twelve novels, including ''Easter'', ''The Enemy of the Good'', ''Jubilate'' and ''The Breath of Night'', and also a collection of short stories, ''Good Clean Fun''. His most recent novel, ''T ...

, ''Unity'' (Maia Press) * Paul Kriwaczek, ''Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation'' (

) *

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, ''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 Toby Press was an American comic-book company that published from 1949 to 1955. Founded by Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp and himself an established comic strip writer, the company published reprints of Capp's '' Li'l Abner'' s ...

)

2007

The shortlist was announced on 25 February 2007. *

, ''

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'' (Cape) * Carmen Callil, ''Bad Faith'' (Cape) * Adam LeBor, '' City of Oranges'' ( Bloomsbury) * Andrew Miller, '' The Earl of Petticoat Lane'' ( Heinemann) *

Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky (; 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Russian Jewish origin who was born in Kyiv, the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arr ...

, '' Suite Française'' ( Chatto) * A. B. Yehoshua, ''A Woman in Jerusalem'' (Halban)

2008

The winner was announced on 5 May 2008. The shortlist comprised: *

Etgar Keret Etgar Keret ( he, אתגר קרת, born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Personal life Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third child ...

, ''Missing Kissinger'' ( Chatto and Windus) * Phillippe Grimbert, ''Secret'' (translated by Polly McLean,

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) *Philip Davis, ''Bernard Malamud'' (

) *

Tom Segev Tom Segev ( he, תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives. Biography Segev was born in Jeru ...

, ''1967'' (translated by Jessica Cohen,

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)

2009

The shortlist was announced on 31 March 2009. The winner was announced on 6 June 2009.Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2009
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Fred Wander Fred Wander (5 January 1917 – 10 July 2006) was an Austrian writer and Holocaust survivor. Wander was born Fritz Rosenblatt in Vienna, he left school at 14 and worked as an apprentice in a textile mill, before travelling around Europe takin ...

, ''The Seventh Well'' (

) * Amir Gutfreund, ''The World a Moment Later'' (translated by Jessica Cohen,

) *

Zoë Heller Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (born 7 July 1965) is an English journalist and novelist long resident in New York City. She has published three novels, ''Everything You Know'' (1999), '' Notes on a Scandal'' (2003), and '' The Believers'' (2008). ''Notes ...

, ''The Believers'' (Fig Tree) * Ladislaus Löb, ''Dealing with Satan'' ( Jonathan Cape) *

Denis MacShane Denis MacShane (born Josef Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former politician, author and commentator who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He joined the Labour Party in 1970 and has held most party offices. ...

, ''Globalising Hatred'' (

) * Jackie Wullschlager, ''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, ''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 Universi ...

) * 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 (publisher), James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Ear ...

) *

Shlomo Sand Shlomo Sand (pronounced ''Zand''; he, שלמה זנד; born 10 September 1946) is an Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University.David Grossman David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. Biography David Grossman was born i ...

, ''

To the End of the Land ''To the End of the Land'' (original Hebrew title "Isha Borachat Mi’bsora" – "A Woman Flees a Message") is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their ...

'' ( Jonathan Cape) *

, '' The Finkler Question'' ( Bloomsbury) * Edmund de Waal, '' The Hare with Amber Eyes'' ( Chatto and Windus) * Eli Amir, '' The Dove Flyer'' (

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) * Anthony Julius, ''

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'' (

) * Jenny Erpenbeck, ''Visitation'' (translated by

Susan Bernofsky Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) is an American translator of German-language literature and author. She is best known for bringing the Swiss writer Robert Walser to the attention of the English-speaking world, translating many of his books and writi ...

)

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'' (

) *

Deborah Levy Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet. She initially concentrated on writing for the theatre – her plays were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company – before focusing on prose fiction. Her early nov ...

, '' Swimming Home'' ( And Other Stories) *

, '' Scenes from Village Life'' ( Chatto and Windus) *

Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Biography Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Belarusian-Jewish parents from Hlusk, ...

, ''Foreign Bodies'' (

) *

and Munro Price, ''

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'' ( Notting Hill Editions) * Bernard Wasserstein, ''On the Eve'' (

)

2014

The shortlist was announced on 27 November 2013. The winner was announced on 27 February 2014. * Edith Pearlman, ''Binocular Vision'' (Pushkin Press) *

Otto Dov Kulka Otto Dov Kulka (''Ôttô Dov Qûlqā''; 16 January 1933 in Nový Hrozenkov, Czechoslovakia – 29 January 2021 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli historian, professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary areas of specialization ...

, ''Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death'' (Allen Lane) *

Shani Boianjiu Shani Boianjiu ( he, שני בוינג'ו; born 30 May 1987) is an Israeli author. Her debut novel, '' The People of Forever Are Not Afraid'', was released in 2012, and has been published in 23 countries. In 2011 the National Book Foundation name ...

, '' The People of Forever Are Not Afraid'' (Hogarth) *

Ben Marcus Ben Marcus (born October 11, 1967) is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written four books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The ...

, ''The Flame Alphabet'' (Granta) * Anouk Markovits, ''I Am Forbidden'' (Hogarth) * Yudit Kiss, ''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, ''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

* Thomas Harding, '' Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz'' (Heinemann) *

Antony Polonsky Antony Barry Polonsky (born 23 September 1940, Johannesburg, South Africa) is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of many historical works on the Holocaust, and is an expert on Polish Jewish history. ...

, ''Jews in Poland and Russia'' (Littman Library) *

Gary Shteyngart Gary Shteyngart (; born July 5, 1972) is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of five novels (including ''Absurdistan'' and '' Super Sad True Love Story'') and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical. Early life Born Igor Semyonovich ...

, ''Little Failure: A Memoir'' (Penguin) *

Hanna Krall Hanna Krall (born 1935), is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Personal life Krall is of Jewish origin, the daughter of ...

, ''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, ''Ishmael’s Oranges'' *

, ''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

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, translated by Sondra Silverston, ''Waking Lions'' * Walter Kempowski, translated by Anthea Bell, ''All for Nothing'' *

Philippe Sands Philippe Joseph Sands, KC (born 17 October 1960) is a British and French writer and lawyer a11 King's Bench Walkand Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. A specialist in ...

, '' 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'' *

, '' 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

The shortlist announced January 2019. The winner was announced in February. *

Françoise Frenkel Françoise Frenkel (14 July 1889 - 18 January 1975) was a lifelong book lover, bookstore owner and author. With her husband, in 1921 she opened the "Maison du Livre français", Berlin's first specialist French book store, which she ran till 1939. ...

, ''No Place to Lay One's Head'' * Chloe Benjamin, ''The Immortalists'' (Tinder Press/Headline) *

Lisa Halliday Lisa Halliday (born July 12, 1976) is an American author and novelist. She is most known for her novel '' Asymmetry'', for which she received a Whiting Award in 2017. Life Halliday was born and grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, in a worki ...

, ''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

The shortlist announced January 2020. The winner was announced in February. *

, ''A Stranger City'' * Benjamin Balint, ''Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literacy Legacy'' * Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, ''Liar'' * Dani Shapiro, ''Inheritance'' *

, ''Lake Success'' *

George Szirtes George Szirtes (; born 29 November 1948) is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English. Originally from Hungary, he has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life after coming to the country as a refugee at the ...

, ''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;

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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 Uni ...

) *

Hadley Freeman Hadley Clare Freeman (born 15 May 1978) is an American British journalist based in London. She writes for ''The Sunday Times'', having previously written for ''The Guardian''. Early life Freeman was born in New York City to a Jewish family. ...

, ''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 ...

) *

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, ''Nobody Will Tell You This But Me'' (Little, Brown) *

Colum McCann Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in New York. He is a Thomas Hunter Writer in Residence at Hunter College, New York. McCann's work has been published in over 40 languages, and h ...

, ''Apeirogon'' (Bloomsbury) * Ariana Neumann, ''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 pu ...

) *

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 /

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.Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), ''The History of Love'' (2005), ''Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into 35 l ...

, '' To Be a Man'' (Bloomsbury) * Nir Baram, ''At Night's End'' (translated by Jessica Cohen, Text Publishing) * Edmund de Waal, ''Letters to Camondo'' (Chatto & Windus/Vintage Publishing) *

Arthur Green Arthur Green ( he, אברהם יצחק גרין, born March 21, 1941) is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian. He was a founding dean of the non-denominational rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Boston, where he ...

, ''Judaism for the World'' (Yale University Press) *

Wendy Lower Wendy Lower (born 1965) is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II. Since 2012, she holds the John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and in 2014 was named the dire ...

, ''The Ravine'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) * Eshkol Nevo, ''The Last Interview'' (translated by Sondra Silverston, Other Press) *

Anne Sebba Anne Sebba (''née'' Rubinstein, born 1951) is a British biographer, lecturer and journalist. She is the author of nine non-fiction books for adults, two biographies for children, and several introductions to reprinted classics. Life Anne Sebba ...

, ''Ethel Rosenberg'' (St. Martins Press, Orion Books)

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External links

Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize

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