Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Explained

The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host Jewish Quarterly and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate. The award 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.^[1]

The Jewish Chronicle called it "British Jewry's top literary award",^[2] and Jewish World said it is a "prestigious literature prize".

Recipients

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Category	Author(s)	Title	Publisher	Result
1996	Fiction			Jonathan Cape	Winner	[3]
	Non-fiction		Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community	Jonathan Cape	Winner
1997	Fiction			Harvill Press	Winner
				Picador	Winner
	Nonfiction		In this Dark House: A Memoir	Viking	Shortlist
			Red Saint, Pink Daughter	Andre Deutsch	Shortlist
			No Passion Spent: Essays 1978–1995	Faber	Shortlist
1998	Fiction		Fugitive Pieces	Bloomsbury	Winner
			Gaglow	Penguin	Shortlist
				Bloomsbury	Shortlist
			Barney's Version	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist
	Non-fiction				Winner
			Skating to Antarctica	Granta	Shortlist
			Flickerbook	Granta	Shortlist
			Under My Hat	Josephs Bookstore	Shortlist
1999	Fiction		Persian Brides	Canongate	Winner
			Day of Atonement	Black Swan	Shortlist
			Apples from the Desert	Laki Books	Shortlist
			Luneberg Variations	Phoenix House	Shortlist
	Non-fiction		Edith's Book: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II	Viking	Winner
			Via Dolorosa	Faber & Faber	Shortlist
			Isaiah Berlin	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist
				Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist
2000	Fiction			Jonathan Cape	Winner
			I, Dreyfus	Abacus	Shortlist
			Foreign Brides	Picador	Shortlist
			For the Relief of Unbearable Urges	Faber & Faber	Shortlist
	Non-fiction			Viking	Winner
				Bellew Publishing	Shortlist
				Oxford University Press	Shortlist
			Losing the Dead	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist
2001	Fiction		When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad	Peter Halban	Winner	[4]
			Will Dolores Come to Tea?	Arcadia	Shortlist
			In the Shape of a Boar	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist
			When I Lived in Modern Times	Granta	Shortlist
	Non-fiction			Allen Lane	Winner
		and Naomi Gryn	Chasing Shadows	Viking	Shortlist
			Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948	Cambridge University Press	Shortlist
			Rock 'n Roll Jews	Five Leaves	Shortlist
2002	Fiction		Austerlitz	Hamish Hamilton	Winner	[5]
			Five Photos of My Wife	Flamingo	Shortlist
			Sister Crazy	Flamingo	Shortlist
			Wolfy and the Strudelbakers	Dewi Lewis	Shortlist
	Non-fiction		Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood	Picador	Winner
				Chatto & Windus	Shortlist
				Granta	Shortlist
			Journal 1935-44	William Heinemann	Shortlist
2003	Fiction			Penguin Books	Winner	[6]
			Lovely Green Eyes	Harvill	Shortlist
				Robson	Shortlist
				Bloodaxe	Shortlist
				Review	Shortlist
	Non-fiction		Defying Hitler: A Memoir	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Winner
				Viking Penguin	Shortlist
			Primo Levi	Hutchinson	Shortlist
			Impossible Love	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist
				Sceptre	Shortlist
2004	Fiction		Someone to Run With	Bloomsbury	Winner	[7]
				Peter Halban	Shortlist
			New & Collected Poems	Hutchinson	Shortlist
	Non-fiction			Penguin	Winner
			Broken Promises: Israeli Lives	Atlantic Books	Shortlist
				Flamingo	Shortlist
			Somewhere to Hang My Hat	New Island	Shortlist
2005	Fiction		Natasha and Other Stories	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[8]
				Jonathan Cape	Shortlist	[9]
			Young Turk	Saqi	Shortlist
	Non-fiction			Chatto & Windus	Winner
			Nine Suitcases	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist
			In the Garden of Memory	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist
				Profile Books	Shortlist
2006	N/A		Fatelessness	Harvill Press	Winner	[10] [11]
			Sobibor	Aurora Metro	Shortlist
			Unity	Maia Press	Shortlist
				Continuum	Shortlist
			Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist
			Genizah at the House of Shepher	Toby Press	Shortlist
			Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist
2007	N/A		Kalooki Nights	Cape	Winner	[12]
				Halban	Shortlist
			City of Oranges	Bloomsbury	Shortlist
				Heinemann	Shortlist
			Bad Faith	Cape	Shortlist
			Suite Française	Chatto	Shortlist
2008	N/A		Missing Kissinger	Chatto and Windus	Winner	[13]
		(Jessica Cohen)	1967	Abacus	Shortlist
			Bernard Malamud	Oxford University Press	Shortlist
		(Polly McLean)	Secret	Portobello Books	Shortlist
2009	N/A			Granta	Winner	[14]
		(Jessica Cohen)		Toby Press	Shortlist
			Globalising Hatred	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist
			Chagall: Love and Exile	Allen Lane	Shortlist
			Dealing with Satan	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist
				Fig Tree	Shortlist
2010	N/A		My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century	Yale University Press	Winner	[15] [16]
				Harvill Secker	Shortlist	[17]
				Little, Brown	Shortlist
				Verso	Shortlist
2011	N/A		To the End of the Land	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[18]
			Trials of the Diaspora	Oxford University Press	Shortlist	[19]
				Chatto and Windus	Shortlist
				Halban	Shortlist
				Bloomsbury	Shortlist
		(Susan Bernofsky)	Visitation	Portobello Books	Shortlist
2013	N/A		Hope: A Tragedy	Picador	Winner	[20]
			Scenes from Village Life	Chatto and Windus	Shortlist	[21]
			On the Eve	Profile Books	Shortlist
			Foreign Bodies	Atlantic Books	Shortlist
			Swimming Home	And Other Stories	Shortlist
		and Munro Price		Notting Hill Editions	Shortlist
2014	N/A		Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death	Allen Lane	Winner	[22]
			I Am Forbidden	Hogarth	Shortlist	[23]
				Granta	Shortlist
			Binocular Vision	Pushkin Press	Shortlist
				Hogarth	Shortlist
				Telegram-Saqi	Shortlist
2015	Fiction	(Margaret Jull Costa)	Diary of the Fall	Harvill	Winner	[24] [25]
		(Todd Hasak-Lowy)	Netanya	Dalkey Archive	Shortlist	[26]
		(Philip Simpson)	Remains of Love	Bloomsbury	Shortlist
	Non-fiction			Heinemann	Winner
			Jews in Poland and Russia	Littman Library	Shortlist
			Little Failure: A Memoir	Penguin	Shortlist
		(Philip Boehm)	Chasing the King of Hearts	Peirene	Shortlist
2016	N/A		KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps		Winner	[27] [28]
			Between Gods		Shortlist	[29]
			Ishmael’s Oranges		Shortlist
					Shortlist
					Shortlist
			J		Shortlist
					Shortlist
2017	N/A	(Sondra Silverston)	Waking Lions		Winner	[30]
			East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity		Winner
		(Alissa Valles)			Shortlist	[31]
					Shortlist
		(Anthea Bell)	All for Nothing		Shortlist
2018	N/A				Winner	[32] [33]
			Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem		Shortlist	[34] [35]
			Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations		Shortlist
					Shortlist
					Shortlist
					Shortlist
2019	N/A		No Place to Lay One's Head		Winner	[36] [37]
				Tinder Press/Headline	Shortlist
			Eternal Life	W.W. Norton &Co Ltd	Shortlist
			Asymmetry	Granta	Shortlist
			Memento Park	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Shortlist
		(Penny Hueston)	Evacuation	Text Publishing	Shortlist
2020	N/A				Winner	[38]
			Liar		Shortlist	[39]
			Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literacy Legacy		Shortlist
			Inheritance		Shortlist
			Lake Success		Shortlist
					Shortlist
			Live a Little		Shortlist
2021	N/A	(Orr Scharf)		MacLehose Press / Schocken Books	Winner	[40]
			When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains	Simon & Schuster	Shortlist	[41]
			Nobody Will Tell You This But Me	Little, Brown	Shortlist
			Apeirogon	Bloomsbury	Shortlist
			On Division	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Shortlist
			House of Glass	HarperCollins	Shortlist
			We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast	Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Books	Shortlist
2022	N/A		To Be a Man	Bloomsbury	Winner	[42] [43]
			Ethel Rosenberg	St. Martins Press, Orion Books	Shortlist
			Judaism for the World	Yale University Press	Shortlist
			Letters to Camondo	Chatto & Windus/Vintage Publishing	Shortlist
		(Sondra Silverston)		Other Press	Shortlist
		(Jessica Cohen)	At Night's End	Text Publishing	Shortlist
				Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Shortlist
2023	N/A			Sceptre	Winner	[44]
			Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow	Chatto	Shortlist	[45]
			In the Midst of Civilised Europe	Picador	Shortlist
			Come to this Court and Cry	Bloomsbury Circus	Shortlist
		(Jennifer Croft)		Fitzcarraldo Editions	Shortlist
				John Murray	Shortlist
		(Yardenne Greenspan)		Serpent's Tail	Shortlist
2024	N/A			Jonathan Cape	Winner	[46]
			Your Hearts, Your Scars	Bellevue Literary Press	Shortlist	[47]
				Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Shortlist
			Still Pictures	Granta Books (UK), Farrar, Straus and Giroux (USA)	Shortlist
			Kosher Soul	Amistad, Harper Collins	Shortlist
			One Hundred Saturdays	Souvenir Press	Shortlist

External links

• Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
• Wingate Literary Prize at The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120225081733/http://jewishquarterly.org/wingateprize/wingate-prize-2011/. dead. 25 February 2012.
2. Web site: Howard Jacobson shortlisted for 'Jewish Booker' prize . . Jennifer Lipman . 4 April 2011 . 27 September 2012.
3. Web site: "Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116072705/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/wingateprize2.shtml . 16 January 2013 . 26 February 2011.
4. Web site: "Wingate Literary Prize 2001" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203322/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/300801.shtml . 26 July 2011 . 26 February 2011.
5. Web site: "Wingate Literary Prize 2002" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314101800/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/030502.shtml . 14 March 2012 . 26 February 2011.
6. Web site: "Wingate Literary Prize 2003" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203234/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/050803b.shtml . 26 July 2011 . 26 February 2011.
7. Web site: "Wingate Literary Prize 2004" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116072716/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/070504.shtml . 16 January 2013 . 26 February 2011.
8. Web site: "Winners of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for 2005" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203211/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/190505.shtml . 26 July 2011 . 26 February 2011.
9. 23 March 2005 . The Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2005 Shortlists announcement . Jewish Quarterly . 30 November 2013.
10. News: Leslie Bunder . 4 May 2006 . Holocaust-based novel wins prestigious literary prize . 27 September 2012 . Jewish World.
11. Web site: "Winner of the 2006 Wingate Prize" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203202/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/wingateprize3.shtml . 26 July 2011 . 26 February 2011.
12. Web site: "Winner of the 2007 Wingate Literary Prize" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116072734/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/wingateprize4.shtml . 16 January 2013 . 26 February 2011.
13. Web site: "Winner of the 2008 Wingate Literary Prize" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512233850/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/wingateprize.shtml . 12 May 2011 . 26 February 2011.
14. Web site: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130320122431/http://jewishquarterly.org/jq-wingate-prize/wingate-prize-2009/ . 20 March 2013 . 25 January 2013.
15. News: Alexandra Coghlan . 17 June 2010 . Lived resistance: Adina Hoffman wins 2010 JQ-Wingate Prize . 30 November 2013 . The New Statesman.
16. Web site: 2010-06-23 . Awards: Miles Franklin, Pritzker, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
17. JQ-Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist . 22 April 2010 . Book Trade . 30 November 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20120720055333/http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/26930 . 20 July 2012.
18. Web site: 2011-06-28 . Wingate Prize 2011: David Grossman beats the Booker . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120225081733/http://jewishquarterly.org/wingateprize/wingate-prize-2011/ . 2012-02-25 . 2024-10-27 . Jewish Quarterly.
19. Web site: 2011-04-07 . Awards: NYPL Young Lions; Jewish Quarterly-Wingate . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
20. News: Philip Maughan . 28 February 2013 . Shalom Auslander wins 2013 Wingate Prize . 30 November 2013 . The New Statesman.
21. Web site: Wingate Prize 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121105201924/http://jewishquarterly.org/jq-wingate-prize/wingate-prize-2013/ . 2012-11-05 . 2024-10-27 . Jewish Quarterly.
22. News: Jon Stock . 27 February 2014 . Otto Dov Kulka wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014 . 28 February 2014 . The Daily Telegraph.
23. The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist . 27 November 2013 . Book Trade . 30 November 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20131130084624/http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/50988/ . 30 November 2013.
24. Web site: Jackman . Josh . 20 April 2015 . Michel Laub and Thomas Harding win JQ-Wingate Prize for books on the Holocaust . The Jewish Chronicle.
25. Web site: 2015-04-22 . Awards: Stella; NYPL Young Lions; Olson; Wingate . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
26. News: Josh Jackman . 13 January 2015 . Authors from across the globe compete on JQ-Wingate prize shortlist . The Jewish Chronicle.
27. Web site: Fisher . Ben . 14 March 2016 . Nikolaus Wachsmann Wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160316162043/http://jewishquarterly.org/2016/03/nikolaus-wachsmann-wins-jewish-quarterly-wingate-prize/ . 16 March 2016 . 15 March 2016 . Jewish Quarterly.
28. Web site: 2016-03-17 . Awards: Indies Choice/E.B. White; Bancroft; Wingate; Sarton . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
29. Web site: 22 February 2016 . Howard Jacobson among top authors on Jewish Quarterly's Wingate Prize shortlist . Jewish News.
30. Web site: Benedicte Page . 23 February 2017 . Sands and Gundar-Goshen win JQ Wingate Literary Prize . 6 April 2017 . The Bookseller.
31. Web site: Katherine Cowdrey . 12 January 2017 . Philippe Sands shortlisted for 2017's Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize . 6 April 2017 . The Bookseller.
32. Web site: Daniel Sugarman . 15 February 2018 . Michael Frank wins JQ Wingate literary prize . 18 February 2018 . The JC.
33. Web site: 2018-02-20 . Awards: Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
34. Web site: Alastair Thomas . 11 January 2018 . Six authors to compete for JQ Wingate prize . 18 February 2018 . The JC.
35. Web site: 2018-01-16 . Awards: T.S. Eliot Poetry; Jewish Quarterly Wingate . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
36. Web site: Mansfield . Katie . 2019-02-25 . Bookseller Frenkel's Holocaust memoir wins JQ Wingate Literary Prize . 2020-11-24 . The Bookseller.
37. Web site: 2019-02-27 . Awards: JQ Wingate Literary Winner . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
38. Web site: Sommers . Jack . 2020-03-16 . Linda Grant wins 2020 Wingate Literary Prize with her novel A Stranger City . 2020-11-24 . The Jewish Chronicle.
39. Web site: Weich . Ben . 2020-01-30 . 2020 Wingate Literary Prize shortlist announced . 2020-11-24 . The Jewish Chronicle.
40. Web site: 2021-03-09 . Awards: Wingate Literary Winner . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
41. Web site: 8 March 2021 . Yaniv Iczkovits Wins 2021 Wingate Literary Prize . 8 March 2021 . Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation.
42. Web site: 2022-02-16 . Nicole Krauss wins the Wingate Prize 2022 . 2024-10-27 . Wingate Foundation . en-GB.
43. Web site: 2022-02-18 . Awards: Wingate Literary Winner . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
44. Web site: 2023-03-14 . Awards: Wingate Literary Winner . 2024-10-27 . Shelf Awareness.
45. Web site: 2023-02-03 . Shortlist for the Wingate Prize 2023 . 2024-10-27 . Wingate Foundation.
46. Web site: 2024-03-13 . Elizabeth McCracken wins the Wingate Literary Prize 2024 . 2024-10-27 . Wingate Foundation . en-GB.
47. Web site: 2024-01-17 . Shortlist for the Wingate Prize 2024 . 2024-10-27 . Wingate Foundation . en-GB.