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 illness, to tales of conflict, resistance and heroism. The long list is made up of 3 novels and 10 non-fiction titles. Now in its 47th …
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 Lecturer of Creative Writing Ashley Hickson-Lovence, author and screenwriter, Natasha Solomons and Research Fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies and author, Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz. …
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 Jewish themes and matters by an illustrious list of writers. The winning book must be of literary merit and aimed at the …
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 open. Home to around 1200 prisoners, by a twist of fate, their number included some of the most prominent and celebrated …
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 self-proclaimed messiah. The shortlist is made up of 3 works of non-fiction and 4 fiction titles. Now in its 46th year, the annual …
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 Wingate Literary Prize judging panel. Dautch will be joined by Guggenheim Fellow and National Jewish Book Award winner George Prochnik, journalist, editor and author …
