The Wingate Prize
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The Wingate Prize
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The only UK literary award to recognise authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Established in 1977.

http://www.wingatefoundation.org.uk/literary_prize.php
And a big thank you to our judges - @ericawgnr.bsky.social Kate Weinberg, Xiaolu Guo and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet. And thanks also to our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We're delighted to announce the longlist for this year's prize. Congratulations to all of the authors and their publishers
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We are delighted to announce this year's judging panel... Author and editor Erica Wagner is to chair and will be joined by the novelists Xiaolu Guo and Kate Weinberg and rabbi and the Director of Strategy for Masorti Judaism in the UK, Adam Zagoria-Moffet.
@jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Our winner, Manya Wilkinson, with our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social Rabbi Zahavit Shalev and @ekasriel.bsky.social, author and Trustee of the Wingate Foundation
March 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Huge congratulations to Manya Wilkinson - winner of this year’s prize for the magnificent Lublin. Thank you to our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalet
March 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalev have decided the winner of this year's prize. Alice Sherwood will be online talking to some of the shortlisted authors tomorrow night jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/insid...
February 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations Miriam Gold - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @jonathancape.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Congratulations Manya Wilkinson - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @andotherstories.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Congratulations @sararoseg.bsky.social - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @headlinebooks.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Congratulations Jeremy Eichler - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @faberbooks.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Congratulations @jonathancape.bsky.social - Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni is shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize
January 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Congratulations @taffyakner.bsky.social - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize
@wildfirebooks.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We are delighted to announce this year's shortlist. Congratulations to all the authors and publishers.
January 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just over a week left until our shortlist announcement. Tickets are now on sale for our event at Jewish Book Week on Saturday 8 March, thanks to our partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/the-w...
January 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our shortlist is coming very soon, with the winner to be announced at a ceremony on 8th March in partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation
January 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We’re very pleased to reveal the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize longlist. Comprised of seven novels and seven non-fiction titles, they cover a broad spectrum of opinions, style and content, interrogating what it means to be Jewish in multiple ways.
December 2, 2024 at 9:01 AM
November 26, 2024 at 10:07 AM