# 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. 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". As of 2011 the winner receives £4,000.
The Jewish Chronicle called it "British Jewry's top literary award", and Jewish World said it is a "prestigious literature prize".

## Recipients

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