Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize
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JQ Wingate 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 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." The prize was renamed JQ Wingate Prize in 2011.. the winner receives £4,000.
Jewish Quarterly
Jewish Quarterly is a UK literary and cultural magazine, published 4 times a year. It focuses on issue of Jewish concern, but also has interests in wider culture and politics. It was founded by Jacob Sonntag in 1955 and has published continuously since...
and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate. 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." The prize was renamed JQ Wingate Prize in 2011.. the winner receives £4,000.
Winners
- 2011 - David GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
, To the End of the LandTo the End of the LandTo the End of the Land is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones are deployed into combat... - 2010 - Adina HoffmanAdina Hoffman-About:Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1967, Hoffman grew up in Peterborough, New Hampshire and Houston, Texas, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1989...
, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century - 2009 - Fred WanderFred WanderFred Wander was an Austrian writer and Holocaust survivor.Wander was born Fritz Rosenblatt in Vienna, he left school at 14 and worked as an apprentice in a textile mill, before travelling around Europe taking whatever jobs were going. He spent quite some time in pre-war Paris and this is where he...
, The Seventh Well - 2008 - Etgar KeretEtgar KeretEtgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television.-Personal Life:Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third child to parents who survived the Holocaust. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Shira Geffen, and...
, Missing Kissinger - 2007 - Howard JacobsonHoward JacobsonHoward Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...
, Kalooki Nights - 2006 - Imre KerteszImre KertészImre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....
, FatelessnessFatelessnessFateless or Fatelessness is a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1969 and 1973 and first published in 1975.... - 2005
- (fiction) David BezmozgisDavid BezmozgisDavid Bezmozgis is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television....
, Natasha and Other Stories - (nonfiction) Amos OzAmos OzAmos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....
, A Tale of Love and DarknessA Tale of Love and DarknessA Tale of Love and Darkness is an autobiographical novel by Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002.The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. In 2011, a bootleg Kurdish translation was found in a bookstore in northern Iraq...
- (fiction) David Bezmozgis
- 2004
- (fiction) David GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
, Someone to Run With - (nonfiction) Amos ElonAmos Elon-Biography:Amos Elon was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in Israel and England. He was married to Beth Elon, a New York-born literary agent, with whom he had one daughter, Danae. In the 1990s, Elon began to spend much of his time in Italy...
, The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933
- (fiction) David Grossman
- 2003
- (fiction) Zadie SmithZadie SmithZadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors...
, The Autograph Man - (nonfiction) Sebastian HaffnerSebastian HaffnerSebastian Haffner was a German journalist and author. He wrote mainly about recent German history....
, Defying Hitler: A Memoir
- (fiction) Zadie Smith
- 2002
- (fiction) WG Sebald, AusterlitzAusterlitz (novel)Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001. The book received the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Plot summary:...
- (nonfiction) Oliver SacksOliver SacksOliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
- (fiction) WG Sebald, Austerlitz
- 2001
- (fiction) Mona Yahia, When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad
- (nonfiction) Mark RosemanMark RosemanMark Roseman is an English historian of modern Europe with particular interest in The Holocaust. He received his B.A. at Christ's College, Cambridge, M.A at Cambridge, and his PhD at University of Warwick. As of 2007 he holds the "Pat M...
, A Past In Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
- 2000
- (fiction) Howard JacobsonHoward JacobsonHoward Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...
, The Mighty Walzer - (nonfiction) Wladyslaw SzpilmanWladyslaw SzpilmanWładysław "Wladek" Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer, and memoirist. Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting how he survived the Holocaust...
, The PianistThe Pianist (memoir)The Pianist is a memoir of the Polish musician of Jewish origins Władysław Szpilman, written and elaborated by a Polish author Jerzy Waldorff, who met Szpilman in 1938 in Krynica and became a friend of him...
- (fiction) Howard Jacobson
- 1999
- (fiction) Dorit Rabinyan, Persian Brides
- (nonfiction) Edoth Velmans, Edith's Book: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II
- 1998
- (fiction) Anne Michael, Fugitive Pieces
- (nonfiction) Claudia Rodin, The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
- 1997
- (fiction) WG Sebald, The Emigrants
- (fiction) Clive SinclairClive Sinclair (author)Clive John Sinclair FRSL is a British author who has published several award winning novels and collections of short stories, including The Lady with the Laptop and Bedbugs....
, The Lady with the Laptop - (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient, now shared with shortlist"
- Louise Kehoe, In this Dark House: A Memoir
- Silvia Rodgers, Red Saint, Pink Daughter
- George SteinerGeorge SteinerFrancis George Steiner, FBA , is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust...
, No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995
- 1996
- (fiction) Alan IslerAlan IslerAlan Isler was an American novelist and professor. He left his native England for the United States at age 18, served in the US Army from 1954 to 1956, received a doctorate in English Literature from Columbia University and taught Renaissance Literature at Queens College, City University of New...
, The Prince of West End Avenue - (nonfiction) Theo Richmond, Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community
- (fiction) Alan Isler