Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize

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.^[1] 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".^[2] As of 2011^[update] the winner receives £4,000.^[1]

The Jewish Chronicle called it "British Jewry's top literary award",^[3] and Jewish World said it is a "prestigious literature prize".^[4]

Recipients

Award winners and shortlists

Year	Category	Author(s)	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1996	Fiction	Alan Isler	The Prince of West End Avenue	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[5]
	Non-fiction	Theo Richmond	Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[5]
1997	Fiction	W. G. Sebald	The Emigrants	Harvill Press	Winner	[5]
		Clive Sinclair	The Lady with the Laptop	Picador	Winner	[5]
	Nonfiction	Louise Kehoe	In this Dark House: A Memoir	Viking	Shortlist	[5]
		Silvia Rodgers	Red Saint, Pink Daughter	Andre Deutsch	Shortlist	[5]
		George Steiner	No Passion Spent: Essays 1978–1995	Faber	Shortlist	[5]
1998	Fiction	Anne Michaels	Fugitive Pieces	Bloomsbury	Winner	[5]
		Esther Freud	Gaglow	Penguin	Shortlist	[5]
		David Grossman	The ZigZag Kid	Bloomsbury	Shortlist	[5]
		Mordecai Richler	Barney's Version	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist	[5]
	Non-fiction	Claudia Roden	The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York		Winner	[5]
		Jenny Diski	Skating to Antarctica	Granta	Shortlist	[5]
		Leila Berg	Flickerbook	Granta	Shortlist	[5]
		Sally Berkovic	Under My Hat	Josephs Bookstore	Shortlist	[5]
1999	Fiction	Dorit Rabinyan	Persian Brides	Canongate	Winner	[5]
		Jay Rayner	Day of Atonement	Black Swan	Shortlist	[5]
		Savyon Liebrecht	Apples from the Desert	Laki Books	Shortlist	[5]
		Paolo Maurensig	Luneberg Variations	Phoenix House	Shortlist	[5]
	Non-fiction	Edith Velmans	Edith's Book: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II	Viking	Winner	[5]
		David Hare	Via Dolorosa	Faber & Faber	Shortlist	[5]
		Michael Ignatieff	Isaiah Berlin	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist	[5]
		Niall Ferguson	The World's Banker	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist	[5]
2000	Fiction	Howard Jacobson	The Mighty Walzer	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[5]
		Bernice Rubens	I, Dreyfus	Abacus	Shortlist	[5]
		Elena Lappin	Foreign Brides	Picador	Shortlist	[5]
		Nathan Englander	For the Relief of Unbearable Urges	Faber & Faber	Shortlist	[5]
	Non-fiction	Władysław Szpilman	The Pianist	Viking	Winner	[5]
		Anthony Rudolf	The Arithmetic of Mind	Bellew Publishing	Shortlist	[5]
		David Vital	A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939	Oxford University Press	Shortlist	[5]
		Lisa Appignanesi	Losing the Dead	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist	[5]
2001	Fiction	Mona Yahia	When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad	Peter Halban	Winner	[6]
		Elisabeth Russell Taylor	Will Dolores Come to Tea?	Arcadia	Shortlist	[6]
		Lawrence Norfolk	In the Shape of a Boar	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist	[6]
		Linda Grant	When I Lived in Modern Times	Granta	Shortlist	[6]
	Non-fiction	Mark Roseman	A Past In Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany	Allen Lane	Winner	[6]
		Hugo Gryn and Naomi Gryn	Chasing Shadows	Viking	Shortlist	[6]
		Louise London	Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948	Cambridge University Press	Shortlist	[6]
		Michael Billig	Rock 'n Roll Jews	Five Leaves	Shortlist	[6]
2002	Fiction	W. G. Sebald	Austerlitz	Hamish Hamilton	Winner	[7]
		Agnès Desarthe	Five Photos of My Wife	Flamingo	Shortlist	[7]
		Emma Richler	Sister Crazy	Flamingo	Shortlist	[7]
		Zvi Jagendorf	Wolfy and the Strudelbakers	Dewi Lewis	Shortlist	[7]
	Non-fiction	Oliver Sacks	Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood	Picador	Winner	[7]
		John Gross	A Double Thread	Chatto & Windus	Shortlist	[7]
		Joseph Roth	The Wandering Jews	Granta	Shortlist	[7]
		Mihail Sebastian	Journal 1935-44	William Heinemann	Shortlist	[7]
2003	Fiction	Zadie Smith	The Autograph Man	Penguin Books	Winner	[8]
		Arnošt Lustig	Lovely Green Eyes	Harvill	Shortlist	[8]
		Dannie Abse	The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas	Robson	Shortlist	[8]
		Micheal O'Siadhail	The Gossamer Wall	Bloodaxe	Shortlist	[8]
		Norman Lebrecht	The Song of Names	Review	Shortlist	[8]
	Non-fiction	Sebastian Haffner	Defying Hitler: A Memoir	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Winner	[8]
		Carole Angier	The Double Bond	Viking Penguin	Shortlist	[8]
		Ian Thomson	Primo Levi	Hutchinson	Shortlist	[8]
		Roman Frister	Impossible Love	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist	[8]
		Roma Ligocka	The Girl in the Red Coat	Sceptre	Shortlist	[8]
2004	Fiction	David Grossman	Someone to Run With	Bloomsbury	Winner	[9]
		A. B. Yehoshua	The Liberated Bride	Peter Halban	Shortlist	[9]
		Dannie Abse	New & Collected Poems	Hutchinson	Shortlist	[9]
	Non-fiction	Amos Elon	The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743–1933	Penguin	Winner	[9]
		Igal Sarna	Broken Promises: Israeli Lives	Atlantic Books	Shortlist	[9]
		Mark Glanville	The Goldberg Variations: From Football Hooligan to Opera Singer	Flamingo	Shortlist	[9]
		Stanley Price	Somewhere to Hang My Hat	New Island	Shortlist	[9]
2005	Fiction	David Bezmozgis	Natasha and Other Stories	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[10]
		Howard Jacobson	The Making of Henry	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist	[11]
		Moris Farhi	Young Turk	Saqi	Shortlist	[11]
	Non-fiction	Amos Oz	A Tale of Love and Darkness	Chatto & Windus	Winner	[10]
		Béla Zsolt	Nine Suitcases	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist	[11]
		Joanna Olczak-Ronikier	In the Garden of Memory	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist	[11]
		Simon Goldhill	The Temple of Jerusalem	Profile Books	Shortlist	[11]
2006	N/A	Imre Kertész	Fatelessness	Harvill Press	Winner	[4][12]
		Jean Molla	Sobibor	Aurora Metro	Shortlist	[12]
		Michael Arditti	Unity	Maia Press	Shortlist	[12]
		Neill Lochery	The View from the Fence, The Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Present to Its Roots	Continuum	Shortlist	[12]
		Nicholas Stargardt	Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist	[12]
		Tamar Yellin	Genizah at the House of Shepher	Toby Press	Shortlist	[12]
		Paul Kriwaczek	Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist	[12]
2007	N/A	Howard Jacobson	Kalooki Nights	Cape	Winner	[13]
		A. B. Yehoshua	A Woman in Jerusalem	Halban	Shortlist	[13]
		Adam LeBor	City of Oranges	Bloomsbury	Shortlist	[13]
		Andrew Miller	The Earl of Petticoat Lane	Heinemann	Shortlist	[13]
		Carmen Callil	Bad Faith	Cape	Shortlist	[13]
		Irène Némirovsky	Suite Française	Chatto	Shortlist	[13]
2008	N/A	Etgar Keret	Missing Kissinger	Chatto and Windus	Winner	[14]
		Tom Segev (trans. Jessica Cohen)	1967	Abacus	Shortlist	[14]
		Philip Davis	Bernard Malamud	Oxford University Press	Shortlist	[14]
		Phillippe Grimbert (trans. Polly McLean)	Secret	Portobello Books	Shortlist	[14]
2009	N/A	Fred Wander	The Seventh Well	Granta	Winner	[2]
		Amir Gutfreund (trans. Jessica Cohen)	The World a Moment Later	Toby Press	Shortlist	[2]
		Denis MacShane	Globalising Hatred	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Shortlist	[2]
		Jackie Wullschlager	Chagall: Love and Exile	Allen Lane	Shortlist	[2]
		Ladislaus Löb	Dealing with Satan	Jonathan Cape	Shortlist	[2]
		Zoë Heller	The Believers	Fig Tree	Shortlist	[2]
2010	N/A	Adina Hoffman	My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century	Yale University Press	Winner	[15][16]
		Julia Franck	The Blind Side of the Heart	Harvill Secker	Shortlist	[17]
		Simon Mawer	The Glass Room	Little, Brown	Shortlist	[17]
		Shlomo Sand	The Invention of the Jewish People	Verso	Shortlist	[17]
2011	N/A	David Grossman	To the End of the Land	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[18]
		Anthony Julius	Trials of the Diaspora	Oxford University Press	Shortlist	[3][19]
		Edmund de Waal	The Hare with Amber Eyes	Chatto and Windus	Shortlist	[3][19]
		Eli Amir	The Dove Flyer	Halban	Shortlist	[3][19]
		Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Bloomsbury	Shortlist	[3][19]
		Jenny Erpenbeck (trans. Susan Bernofsky)	Visitation	Portobello Books	Shortlist	[3][19]
2013[a]	N/A	Shalom Auslander	Hope: A Tragedy	Picador	Winner	[21]
		Amos Oz	Scenes from Village Life	Chatto and Windus	Shortlist	[20]
		Bernard Wasserstein	On the Eve	Profile Books	Shortlist	[20]
		Cynthia Ozick	Foreign Bodies	Atlantic Books	Shortlist	[20]
		Deborah Levy	Swimming Home	And Other Stories	Shortlist	[20]
		Stanley Price and Munro Price	The Road to the Apocalypse	Notting Hill Editions	Shortlist	[20]
2014	N/A	Otto Dov Kulka	Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death	Allen Lane	Winner	[22]
		Anouk Markovits	I Am Forbidden	Hogarth	Shortlist	[23]
		Ben Marcus	The Flame Alphabet	Granta	Shortlist	[23]
		Edith Pearlman	Binocular Vision	Pushkin Press	Shortlist	[23]
		Shani Boianjiu	The People of Forever Are Not Afraid	Hogarth	Shortlist	[23]
		Yudit Kiss	The Summer My Father Died	Telegram-Saqi	Shortlist	[23]
2015	Fiction	Michel Laub (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)	Diary of the Fall	Harvill	Winner	[24][25]
		Dror Burstein (trans. Todd Hasak-Lowy)	Netanya	Dalkey Archive	Shortlist	[26]
		Zeruya Shalev (trans. Philip Simpson)	Remains of Love	Bloomsbury	Shortlist	[26]
	Non-fiction	Thomas Harding	Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz	Heinemann	Winner	[24][25]
		Antony Polonsky	Jews in Poland and Russia	Littman Library	Shortlist	[26]
		Gary Shteyngart	Little Failure: A Memoir	Penguin	Shortlist	[26]
		Hanna Krall (trans. Philip Boehm)	Chasing the King of Hearts	Peirene	Shortlist	[26]
2016	N/A	Nikolaus Wachsmann	KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps		Winner	[27][28]
		Alison Pick	Between Gods		Shortlist	[29]
		Claire Hajaj	Ishmael’s Oranges		Shortlist	[29]
		Dan Stone	The Liberation of the Camps		Shortlist	[29]
		George Prochnik	The Impossible Exile		Shortlist	[29]
		Howard Jacobson	J		Shortlist	[29]
		Zachary Leader	The Life of Saul Bellow		Shortlist	[29]
2017	N/A	Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (trans. Sondra Silverston)	Waking Lions		Winner	[30]
		Philippe Sands	East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity		Winner	[30]
		Anna Bikont (trans. Alissa Valles)	The Crime and the Silence		Shortlist	[31]
		David Cesarani	Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949		Shortlist	[31]
		Walter Kempowski (trans. Anthea Bell)	All for Nothing		Shortlist	[31]
2018	N/A	Michael Frank	The Mighty Franks: A Memoir		Winner	[32][33]
		George Prochnik	Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem		Shortlist	[34][35]
		Joanne Limburg	Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations		Shortlist	[34][35]
		Laurence Rees	The Holocaust: A New History		Shortlist	[34][35]
		Linda Grant	The Dark Circle		Shortlist	[34][35]
		Mya Guarnieri Jaradat	The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others		Shortlist	[34][35]
2019	N/A	Françoise Frenkel	No Place to Lay One's Head		Winner	[36][37]
		Chloe Benjamin	The Immortalists	Tinder Press/Headline	Shortlist	[36]
		Dara Horn	Eternal Life	W.W. Norton &Co Ltd	Shortlist	[36]
		Lisa Halliday	Asymmetry	Granta	Shortlist	[36]
		Mark Sarvas	Memento Park	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Shortlist	[36]
		Raphaël Jerusalmy (trans. Penny Hueston)	Evacuation	Text Publishing	Shortlist	[36]
2020	N/A	Linda Grant	A Stranger City		Winner	[38]
		Ayelet Gundar-Goshen	Liar		Shortlist	[39]
		Benjamin Balint	Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literacy Legacy		Shortlist	[39]
		Dani Shapiro	Inheritance		Shortlist	[39]
		Gary Shteyngart	Lake Success		Shortlist	[39]
		George Szirtes	The Photographer at Sixteen		Shortlist	[39]
		Howard Jacobson	Live a Little		Shortlist	[39]
2021	N/A	Yaniv Iczkovits (trans. Orr Scharf)	The Slaughterman's Daughter	MacLehose Press / Schocken Books	Winner	[40]
		Ariana Neumann	When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains	Simon & Schuster	Shortlist	[41]
		Bess Kalb	Nobody Will Tell You This But Me	Little, Brown	Shortlist	[41]
		Colum McCann	Apeirogon	Bloomsbury	Shortlist	[41]
		Goldie Goldbloom	On Division	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Shortlist	[41]
		Hadley Freeman	House of Glass	HarperCollins	Shortlist	[41]
		Jonathan Safran Foer	We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast	Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Books	Shortlist	[41]
2022	N/A	Nicole Krauss	To Be a Man	Bloomsbury	Winner	[42][43]
		Anne Sebba	Ethel Rosenberg	St. Martins Press, Orion Books	Shortlist	[42]
		Arthur Green	Judaism for the World	Yale University Press	Shortlist	[42]
		Edmund de Waal	Letters to Camondo	Chatto & Windus/Vintage Publishing	Shortlist	[42]
		Eshkol Nevo (trans. Sondra Silverston)	The Last Interview	Other Press	Shortlist	[42]
		Nir Baram (trans. Jessica Cohen)	At Night's End	Text Publishing	Shortlist	[42]
		Wendy Lower	The Ravine	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Shortlist	[42]
2023	N/A	Simon Parkin	The Island of Extraordinary Captives	Sceptre	Winner	[44]
		Gabrielle Zevin	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow	Chatto	Shortlist	[45]
		Jeffrey Veidlinger	In the Midst of Civilised Europe	Picador	Shortlist	[45]
		Linda Kinstler	Come to this Court and Cry	Bloomsbury Circus	Shortlist	[45]
		Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft)	The Books of Jacob	Fitzcarraldo Editions	Shortlist	[45]
		Omer Friedlander	The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land	John Murray	Shortlist	[45]
		Yishai Sarid (trans. Yardenne Greenspan)	The Memory Monster	Serpent's Tail	Shortlist	[45]
2024	N/A	Elizabeth McCracken	The Hero of this Book	Jonathan Cape	Winner	[46]
		Adina Talve-Goodman	Your Hearts, Your Scars	Bellevue Literary Press	Shortlist	[47]
		Paul Goldberg	The Dissident	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Shortlist	[47]
		Janet Malcolm	Still Pictures	Granta Books (UK), Farrar, Straus and Giroux (USA)	Shortlist	[47]
		Michael Twitty	Kosher Soul	Amistad, Harper Collins	Shortlist	[47]
		Michael Frank	One Hundred Saturdays	Souvenir Press	Shortlist	[47]

Notes

1. No award was presented in 2012.^[20]