Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize

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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 .[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 said it is a "prestigious literature prize."[4]

Winners[]

David Grossman
Etgar Keret
Zadie Smith
Oliver Sacks

The blue ribbon Blue ribbon signifies the winner.

1996[]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

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

1997[]

  • (fiction) W. G. 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  • (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist"[5][6]
  • , 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[]

Non-fiction[]

  • Blue ribbon Claudia Roden, The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
  • Leila Berg, Flickerbook (Granta)
  • , Under My Hat (Josephs Bookstore)
  • Jenny Diski, Skating to Antarctica (Granta)

1999[]

The shortlists comprised:[5]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2000[]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2001[]

The winners were announced on 30 April 2001. The shortlists comprised:[7]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2002[]

The winners were announced on 2 May 2002. The shortlists comprised:[8]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2003[]

The winners were announced on 8 May 2003. The shortlists comprised:[9]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2004[]

The winners were announced on 6 May 2004. The shortlists comprised:[10]

Fiction[]

  • Blue ribbon David Grossman, Someone to Run With (Bloomsbury)
  • Dannie Abse, New & Collected Poems (Hutchinson)
  • A.B. Yehoshua, The Liberated Bride (Peter Halban)

Non-fiction[]

  • Blue ribbon 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)
  • , Broken Promises: Israeli Lives (Atlantic Books)

2005[]

The winners were announced on 17 May 2005.[4][11] The shortlists comprised:[12]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2006[]

The shortlist comprised:[13]

2007[]

The shortlist was announced on 25 February 2007.[14]

2008[]

The winner was announced on 5 May 2008. The shortlist comprised:[15]

2009[]

The shortlist was announced on 31 March 2009. The winner was announced on 6 June 2009.[2]

2010[]

The shortlist was announced on 22 April 2010.[16] The winner was announced on 16 June 2010.[17]

2011[]

The shortlist was announced on 4 April 2011.[3] The winner was announced on 6 June 2011.[1]

2012[]

2013[]

The winner was announced on 27 February 2013.[19] The shortlist comprised:[20]

2014[]

The shortlist was announced on 27 November 2013.[21] The winner was announced on 27 February 2014.[22]

2015[]

The shortlist was announced on 13 January 2015.[23] The winners - one each for fiction and non-fiction, in a departure from recent tradition since 2005 - were announced on 20 April 2015.[24]

Fiction[]

Non-fiction[]

2016[]

The short list was announced on 22 February 2016.[25] The winner was announced on 14 March 2016.[26]

2017[]

The shortlist was announced January 2017.[27] The joint winners were announced 23 February 2017.[28]

2018[]

The shortlist announced January 2018.[29] The winner was announced in February.[30]

  • Blue ribbon Michael Frank, The Mighty Franks: A Memoir
  • Linda Grant, The Dark Circle
  • , 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, The Holocaust: A New History

2019[]

The shortlist announced January 2019. The winner was announced in February.[31]

2020[]

The shortlist announced January 2020.[32] The winner was announced in February.[33]

2021[]

The winner was announced on March 7, 2021. The shortlist comprised:[34]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011 Archived 25 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2009
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Jennifer Lipman (4 April 2011). "Howard Jacobson shortlisted for 'Jewish Booker' prize". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Leslie Bunder (4 May 2006). "Holocaust-based novel wins prestigious literary prize". Jewish World. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Winners 1996 – 2000 inclusive"
  6. ^ "News in Brief:Literary prize withdrawn for writer's 'work of fiction'". The Guardian. 29 April 2000. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2001"
  8. ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2002"
  9. ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2003"
  10. ^ "Wingate Literary Prize 2004"
  11. ^ "Winners of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for 2005"
  12. ^ "The Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2005 Shortlists announcement". Jewish Quarterly. 23 March 2005. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  13. ^ "Winner of the 2006 Wingate Prize"
  14. ^ "Winner of the 2007 Wingate Literary Prize"
  15. ^ "Winner of the 2008 Wingate Literary Prize"
  16. ^ "JQ-Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. 22 April 2010. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  17. ^ Alexandra Coghlan (17 June 2010). "Lived resistance: Adina Hoffman wins 2010 JQ-Wingate Prize". The New Statesman. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  18. ^ "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 5 November 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The previous ceremony was in June 2011.
  19. ^ Philip Maughan (28 February 2013). "Shalom Auslander wins 2013 Wingate Prize". The New Statesman. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  20. ^ Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. 27 November 2013. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  22. ^ Jon Stock (27 February 2014). "Otto Dov Kulka wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  23. ^ Josh Jackman (13 January 2015). "Authors from across the globe compete on JQ-Wingate prize shortlist". The Jewish Chronicle.
  24. ^ Jackman, Josh (20 April 2015). "Michel Laub and Thomas Harding win JQ-Wingate Prize for books on the Holocaust". The Jewish Chronicle.
  25. ^ "Howard Jacobson among top authors on Jewish Quarterly's Wingate Prize shortlist". Jewish News. 22 February 2016.
  26. ^ Fisher, Ben (14 March 2016). "Nikolaus Wachsmann Wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize". Jewish Quarterly.
  27. ^ Katherine Cowdrey (12 January 2017). "Philippe Sands shortlisted for 2017's Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  28. ^ Benedicte Page (23 February 2017). "Sands and Gundar-Goshen win JQ Wingate Literary Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  29. ^ Alastair Thomas (11 January 2018). "Six authors to compete for JQ Wingate prize". The JC. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  30. ^ Daniel Sugarman (15 February 2018). "Michael Frank wins JQ Wingate literary prize". The JC. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  31. ^ "Bookseller Frenkel's Holocaust memoir wins JQ Wingate Literary Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  32. ^ "2020 Wingate Literary Prize shortlist announced". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  33. ^ "Linda Grant wins 2020 Wingate Literary Prize with her novel A Stranger City". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  34. ^ "Yaniv Iczkovits Wins 2021 Wingate Literary Prize". Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.

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