Judging panel for Wingate Prize 2022
Senior Rabbi of the S&P UK Sephardi Community, Rabbi Joseph Dweck, is to chair the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize judging panel, joined by New Statesman political editor Stephen Bush; award-winning...
View ArticleShortlist for the Wingate Prize 2022
The 2022 Wingate Literary Prize has generated a short list of seven books – chosen by merit of their nuanced, innovative approach to existing Jewish themes. Among the four works of fiction and three...
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Nicole Krauss wins the Wingate Prize 2022
Nicole Krauss’s first short story collection To Be A Man has won the 2022 Wingate Literary Prize. Spanning continents and written over a period 18 years, the ten unsettling stories shift between...
View ArticleWingate Literary Prize 2023
Submissions are invited for the Wingate Foundation Literary Prize 2023 worth £4,000. For close to half a century, the Wingate Literary Prize has been shining a light on the books that best explore...
View ArticleJudging Panel for Wingate Prize 2023
Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts and culture magazine, and a lecturer on modern Jewish literature for LSJS and JW3, Dr Aviva Dautch, is to chair the 2022/23...
View ArticleShortlist for the Wingate Prize 2023
The 2023 Wingate Literary Prize shortlist explores a diverse range of themes and subject matter this year, including World War II internment camps, the ‘proving’ of history and the wanderings of a...
View ArticleSimon Parkin wins Wingate Prize 2023
Simon Parkin has been announced as the winner of this year’s Wingate Literary Prize for The Island of Extraordinary Captives (Sceptre). On 13 July 1940, Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man was declared...
View ArticleWingate Literary Prize 2024
The Wingate Foundation invites submissions for the 2024 Literary Prize, worth £4,000. For close to half a century the Wingate Literary Prize has been shining a light on the books that best explore...
View ArticleJudging Panel announced for 2024 Wingate Prize
Author and Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, Benjamin Markovits is to chair the 2023/24 Wingate Literary Prize judging panel. Markovits will be joined by novelist and...
View ArticleLong List Announced for the 2024 Wingate Prize
The 2023/4 Wingate Literary Prize long list explores close up perspectives on a diverse range of important themes this year, with insights from individuals who have navigated conflict and chronic...
View ArticleShortlist for the Wingate Prize 2024
Shortlist for the Wingate Prize 2024 The judges of the Wingate Literary Prize 2024 are delighted to announce their shortlist of six books, which collectively reflect the depths of Jewishness and...
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Elizabeth McCracken wins the Wingate Literary Prize 2024
Elizabeth McCracken has been announced as the winner of this year’s Wingate Literary Prize for The Hero of this Book (Jonathan Cape). The Hero of This Book is a taut, ground-breaking novel about a...
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