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

Jewish Quarterly 'The Jewish Quarterly' is an international journal of Jewish culture and ideas. Primarily a UK-based publication until 2021, the journal is now published by Australian publisher, Morry Schwartz, for a global audience. With four issues released a ...

'' and the prize's founder

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. 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 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 Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation ...

)

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, '' The Emigrants'' * (fiction)

Clive Sinclair Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry, and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronic ...

, ''The Lady with the Laptop'' * (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist""Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive"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

, ''

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 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 Freu ...

, ''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 ...

, ''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 Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his busines ...

)

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 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 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 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 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. ...

, ''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 Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

) *

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'' (

) *

Niall Ferguson Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964)Biography
Niall Ferguson

, ''The World's Banker'', (

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1949), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It has been a division of the French-owned Orion Publishing Group since 1991. History George Weidenfeld ...

)

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'' (

) *

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 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 Bernice Rubens (26 July 1923 – 13 October 2004) was a Welsh novelist.She became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970, for ''The Elected Member''. Personal history Bernice Ruth Reuben was born in Splott, Cardiff on 26 July 192 ...

, ''I, Dreyfus'' (Abacus)

Non-fiction

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

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'' (

) *

David Vital David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, ''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 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 English a ...

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

) *

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 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 social ...

, ''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, ''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 Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half- Scot half- American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which ...

) * 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 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 John Gross FRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011) was an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic, ''The Guardian'' (in a tribute titled "My Hero") and ''The Spectator'' were among several pub ...

, ''A Double Thread'' (

) *

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 Mihail Sebastian (; born Iosif Mendel Hechter; October 18, 1907 – May 29, 1945) was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist. Life Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mendel and Clara Hechter. After c ...

, ''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'' (

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 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, ''Defying Hitler: A Memoir'' (

) * 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

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

, ''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 Mark Glanville (born London, England) is an English classical singer and writer. He grew up in West London with his father, the writer Brian Glanville. Writer Mark chronicled his early life, including flirtations with the world of football hool ...

, ''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'' (

) *

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'' (

)

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 onwa ...

, '' A Tale of Love and Darkness'' (

) *

Simon Goldhill Simon David Goldhill, FBA (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and culture and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge. He was previously Director of Centre for Research in the Arts, Social ...

, ''The Temple of Jerusalem'' (

Profile Books Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distributed in the UK by ...

) *

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'' (

)

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'' * 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'' (

) *

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 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'' (

) *

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'' (

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)

2007

The shortlist was announced on 25 February 2007. *

, ''

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'' (Cape) *

Carmen Callil Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, (15 July 1938 – 17 October 2022) was an Australian publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973 and received the Benson Medal from the Royal So ...

, ''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 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. Arre ...

, '' 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 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 chil ...

, ''Missing Kissinger'' (

Chatto and Windus Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his busines ...

) * Phillippe Grimbert, ''Secret'' (translated by Polly McLean,

Portobello Books ''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 ...

) *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 o ...

, ''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'' (

) *

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'' (

) *

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, ''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 Univer ...

) * Julia Franck, ''The Blind Side of the Heart'' (

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) *

Simon Mawer Simon Mawer ( ; born 1948, England) is a British author who lives in Italy. Life and work Born in 1948 and was educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biolog ...

, ''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 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 ...

, '' To the End of the Land'' (

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, '' The Finkler Question'' (

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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'' (

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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 ...

, '' The Dove Flyer'' ( Halban) *

Anthony Julius Anthony Robert Julius (born 16 July 1956) is a British solicitor advocate known for being Diana, Princess of Wales' divorce lawyer and for representing Deborah Lipstadt. He is a partner at the law firm Mishcon de Reya. He holds the chair in Law ...

, '' Trials of the Diaspora'' (

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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

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

, ''

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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'' (

) * Stanley Price and

Munro Price Munro Price is a British historian noted for his award-winning work on French history. Early life Price was born (February 1963) in London to playwright and author Stanley Price and his wife Judy ( Fenton) and raised in Highgate. Education ...

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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'' (

)

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, '' 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) *

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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, ''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) *

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, ''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, ''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 S ...

, ''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 Alison Pick (born 1975) is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel ''Far to Go'', and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35. Life and career Alison Pick ...

, ''Between Gods'' *

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, ''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 David Cesarani (13 November 1956 – 25 October 2015) was a British historian who specialised in Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. He also wrote several biographies, including '' Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind'' (1998). Early lif ...

, '' Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949'' * Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated by Sondra Silverston, ''Waking Lions'' *

Walter Kempowski Walter Kempowski (; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called ''German Chronicle'' ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental ''Echolot'' ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical repo ...

, 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'' * Linda Grant, '' The Dark Circle'' *

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, ''The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others'' * Joanne Limburg, ''Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations'' *

, ''Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem'' *

Laurence Rees Laurence Rees (born 1957) is an English historian. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed, especially by them, ...

, ''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 Dara Horn (born 1977) is a Jewish American novelist, essayist, and professor of literature. She has written five novels and in 2021, released a nonfiction essay collection titled ''People Love Dead Jews'', which was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus ...

, ''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'' * Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, ''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'' *

, ''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;

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) *

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'' (

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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 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) *

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

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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'' (

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 ...

, '' To Be a Man'' (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 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 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 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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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