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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 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". Winners The blue ribbon signifies the winner. 1996 Fiction Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue (Jonathan Cape) Non-fiction Theo Richmond, Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community (Jonathan Cape) 1997 (fiction) W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants (fiction) Clive Sinclair, The Lady with the Laptop (nonfiction) "Prize withdrawn from original recipient due to it being a work of fiction, now shared with shortlist" Louise Kehoe, In this Dark House: A Memoir Silvia Rodgers, Red Saint,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: Fiction Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (Bloomsbury) Esther Freud, Gaglow (Penguin) David Grossman, The ZigZag Kid (Bloomsbury) Mordecai Richler, Barney's 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: Fiction Dorit Rabinyan, Persian Brides (Canongate) Jay Rayner, Day of Atonement (Black Swan) Savyon Liebrecht, 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) 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 30 April 2001. The shortlists comprised: 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 on 2 May 2002. The shortlists comprised: 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 on 8 May 2003. The shortlists comprised: 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 on 6 May 2004. The shortlists comprised: 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 on 17 May 2005. The shortlists comprised: 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: Imre Kertész, 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 25 February 2007. 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 5 May 2008. The shortlist comprised: 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 31 March 2009. The winner was announced on 6 June 2009. 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 22 April 2010. The winner was announced on 16 June 2010. Adina Hoffman, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Cen.... Discover the Anouk Markovits popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Anouk Markovits books.