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 recognizes 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 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]
Winners
The blue ribbon signifies the winner.
1996
Fiction
- Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue (Jonathan Cape) [5]
Non-fiction
- Theo Richmond, Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community (Jonathan Cape)
1997
- (fiction) WG Sebald, The Emigrants[5]
- (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- (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist"[5][6]
- Louise Kehoe, In this Dark House: A Memoir
- Silvia Rodgers, Red Saint, Pink Daughter
- George Steiner, No Passion Spent: Essays 1978–1995
1998
The shortlists comprised:[5]
Fiction
- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (Bloomsbury)
- Esther Freud, Gaglow (Penguin)
- David Grossman, The ZigZag Kid (Bloomsbury)
- Mordecai Richler, Barneys Version (Chatto & Windus)
Non-fiction
- Claudia Roden, 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, Skating to Antarctica (Granta)
1999
The shortlists comprised:[5]
Fiction
- Dorit Rabinyan, Persian Brides (Canongate)
- Jay Rayner, Day of Atonement (Black Swan)
- Savyon Leibrecht, 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 (Faber & Faber)
- Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin (Chatto & Windus)
- Niall Ferguson, The World's Banker, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
2000
Fiction
- Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer (Jonathan Cape) [5]
- Nathan Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Faber & Faber)
- 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, Losing the Dead (Chatto & Windus)
- David Vital, A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939 (Oxford University Press)
2001
The winners were announced on April 30, 2001. The shortlists comprised:[7]
Fiction
- Mona Yahia, When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad (Peter Halban)
- Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times (Granta)
- Lawrence Norfolk, In the Shape of a Boar (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Elisabeth Russell Taylor, Will Dolores Come to Tea? (Arcadia)
Non-fiction
- Mark Roseman, A Past In Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany (Allen Lane)
- Michael Billig, Rock 'n Roll Jews (Five Leaves)
- Hugo Gryn and Naomi Gryn, Chasing Shadows (Viking)
- Louise London, Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948 (Cambridge University Press)
2002
The winners were announced May 2, 2002. The shortlists comprised:[8]
Fiction
- WG Sebald, Austerlitz (Hamish Hamilton)
- Agnes Desarthe, Five Photos of My Wife (Flamingo)
- Zvi Jagendorf, Wolfy and the Strudelbakers (Dewi Lewis)
- Emma Richler, Sister Crazy (Flamingo)
Non-fiction
- Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Picador)
- John Gross, A Double Thread (Chatto & Windus)
- Joseph Roth, The Wandering Jews (Granta)
- Mihail Sebastian, Journal 1935-44 (William Heinemann)
2003
The winners were announced May 8, 2003. The shortlists comprised:[9]
Fiction
- Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man (Penguin Books
- Arnost Lustig, Lovely Green Eyes (Harvill)
- Micheal O’Siadhail, The Gossamer Wall (Bloodaxe)
- Norman Lebrecht, The Song of Names (Review)
- Dannie Abse, The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas (Robson)
Non-fiction
- Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Roman Frister, Impossible Love (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Ian Thomson, Primo Levi (Hutchinson)
- Carole Angier, The Double Bond (Viking Penguin)
- Roma Ligocka, The Girl in the Red Coat (Sceptre)
2004
The winners were announced May 6, 2004. The shortlists comprised:[10]
Fiction
- David Grossman, Someone to Run With (Bloomsbury)
- Dannie Abse, 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, Somewhere to Hang My Hat (New Island)
- Igal Sarna, Broken Promises: Israeli Lives (Atlantic Books)
2005
The winners were announced May 17, 2005.[4][11] The shortlists comprised:[12]
Fiction
- David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories (Jonathan Cape)
- Moris Farhi, Young Turk (Saqi)
- Howard Jacobson The Making of Henry (Jonathan Cape)
Non-fiction
- Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (Chatto & Windus)
- Simon Goldhill, The Temple of Jerusalem (Profile Books)
- Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, In the Garden of Memory (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Béla Zsolt, Nine Suitcases (Jonathan Cape)
2006
The shortlist comprised:[13]
- Imre Kertesz, Fatelessness
- Michael Arditti, Unity (Maia Press)
- Paul Kriwaczek, Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Neill Lochery, 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)
2007
The shortlist was announced on February 25, 2007.[14]
- Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (Cape)
- Carmen Callil, Bad Faith (Cape)
- Adam LeBor, City of Oranges (Bloomsbury)
- Andrew Miller, The Earl of Petticoat Lane (Heinemann)
- Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française (Chatto)
- A. B. Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem (Halban)
2008
The winner was announced on May 5, 2008. The shortlist comprised:[15]
- Etgar Keret, Missing Kissinger (Chatto and Windus)
- Phillippe Grimbert, Secret (translated by Polly McLean, Portobello Books)
- Philip Davis, Bernard Malamud (Oxford University Press)
- Tom Segev, 1967 (translated by Jessica Cohen, Abacus)
2009
The shortlist was announced on March 31, 2009. The winner was announced June 6, 2009.[2]
- Fred Wander, The Seventh Well (Granta)
- Amir Gutfreund, The World a Moment Later (translated by Jessica Cohen, Toby Press)
- Zoë Heller, The Believers (Fig Tree)
- Ladislaus Löb, Dealing with Satan (Jonathan Cape)
- Denis MacShane, Globalising Hatred (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Jackie Wullschlager, Chagall: Love and Exile (Allen Lane)
2010
The shortlist was announced on April 22, 2010.[16] The winner was announced on June 16, 2010.[17]
- Adina Hoffman, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale University Press)
- Julia Franck, The Blind Side of the Heart (Harvill Secker)
- Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (Little, Brown)
- Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso)
2011
The shortlist was announced on April 4, 2011.[3] The winner was announced on June 6, 2011.[1]
- David Grossman, To the End of the Land (Jonathan Cape)
- Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
- Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes (Chatto and Windus)
- Eli Amir, The Dove Flyer (Halban)
- Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora (Oxford University Press)
- Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation (translated by Susan Bernofsky, Portobello Books)
2012
- [no award][18]
2013
The winner was announced on February 27, 2013.[19] The shortlist comprised:[20]
- Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy (Picador)
- Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (And Other Stories)
- Amos Oz, Scenes from Village Life (Chatto and Windus)
- Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies (Atlantic Books)
- Stanley Price and Munro Price, The Road to the Apocalypse (Notting Hill Editions)
- Bernard Wasserstein, On the Eve (Profile Books)
2014
The shortlist was announced on November 27, 2013.[21] The winner was announced on February 27, 2014.[22]
- Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Pushkin Press)
- Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death (Allen Lane)
- Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth)
- Ben Marcus, 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 January 13, 2015.[23] The winners - one each for fiction and non-fiction, in a departure from recent tradition since 2005 - were announced on April 20, 2015.[24]
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, Jews in Poland and Russia (Littman Library)
- Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure: A Memoir (Penguin)
- Hanna Krall, Chasing the King of Hearts - Translated by Philip Boehm (Peirene)
2016
The short list was announced on February 22, 2016.[25] The winner was announced on March 14, 2016.[26]
- Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
- Claire Hajaj, Ishmael’s Oranges
- Howard Jacobson, J
- Zachary Leader, The Life of Saul Bellow
- Alison Pick, Between Gods
- George Prochnik, The Impossible Exile
- Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps
Notes
- 1 2 3 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011
- 1 2 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2009
- 1 2 Jennifer Lipman (April 4, 2011). "Howard Jacobson shortlisted for 'Jewish Booker' prize". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- 1 2 Leslie Bunder (May 4, 2006). "Holocaust-based novel wins prestigious literary prize". Jewish World. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive"
- ↑ "News in Brief:Literary prize withdrawn for writer's 'work of fiction'". The Guardian. 29 April 2000. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
- ↑ "Wingate Literary Prize 2001"
- ↑ "Wingate Literary Prize 2002"
- ↑ "Wingate Literary Prize 2003"
- ↑ "Wingate Literary Prize 2004"
- ↑ "Winners of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for 2005"
- ↑ "The Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2005 Shortlists announcement". Jewish Quarterly. March 23, 2005. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ "Winner of the 2006 Wingate Prize"
- ↑ "Winner of the 2007 Wingate Literary Prize"
- ↑ "Winner of the 2008 Wingate Literary Prize"
- ↑ "JQ-Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. April 22, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Alexandra Coghlan (June 17, 2010). "Lived resistance: Adina Hoffman wins 2010 JQ-Wingate Prize". The New Statesman. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ "From 2013, the prize will be awarded in February to enable the prize to coincide with Jewish Book Week.""Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2013. The previous ceremony was in June 2011.
- ↑ Philip Maughan (February 28, 2013). "Shalom Auslander wins 2013 Wingate Prize". The New Statesman. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. November 27, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Jon Stock (February 27, 2014). "Otto Dov Kulka wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved February 28, 2014.
- ↑ Josh Jackman (January 13, 2015). "Authors from across the globe compete on JQ-Wingate prize shortlist". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ↑ Jackman, Josh (April 20, 2015). "Michel Laub and Thomas Harding win JQ-Wingate Prize for books on the Holocaust". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ↑ "Howard Jacobson among top authors on Jewish Quaterly's Wingate Prize shortlist". Jewish News. February 22, 2016.
- ↑ Fisher, Ben (March 14, 2016). "Nikolaus Wachsmann Wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize". Jewish Quarterly.
External links
- Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, official website.